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LORY (a word of Malayan origin signifying parrot, in general use with but slight variation of form in many
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European
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languages)
  , the name of certain birds of the order Psittaci, mostly from the Moluccas and New
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Guinea, remarkable for their bright
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scarlet or
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crimson colouring, though also, and perhaps subsequently, applied to some others in which the plumage is chiefly green . The lories have been referred to a considerable number of genera, of which Lorius (the Domicella of some authors), Eos and Chalcopsittacus may be here particularized, while under the name of " lorikeets " may be comprehended such genera as Trichogiossus, Charmosyna, Loriculus and Coriphilus . By most systematists some of these forms have been placed far apart, even in different families of Psittaci, but A . H . Garrod hasshown (Proc . Zool . Society, 1874, pp . 586-598, and 1876, p . 692) the many
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common characters they possess, which thus goes some way to justify the relationship implied by their popular designation . A full account of these birds is given in the first
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part of Count T . Salvadori's Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche (
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Turin 1880), whilst a later classification appeared in Salvadori's section of the
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British Museum Catalogue of Birds, xx., 1891 . Though the name lory has often been used for the
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species of Eclectus, and some other genera related thereto,
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modern writers would restrict its application to the birds of the genera Lorius, Eos, Chalcopsittacus and their near allies, which are often placed in a subfamily, Loriinae, belonging to the so-called
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family of Trichoglossidae or " brush-tongued " parrots .

Garrod in his investigations on the

anatomy of Psittaci was led not to attach much importance to the structure indicated by the epithet " brush-tongued " stating (Proc . Zool . Society, 1874, p . 597) that it " is only an excessive development of the papillae which are always found on the lingual
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surface." The birds of this
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group are very characteristic of the New Guinea subregion,' in which occur, according to Count Salvadori, ten species of Lorius, eight of Eos and four of Chalcopsittacus; but none seem here to require any further
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notice,2 though among them, and particularly in the genus Eos, are included some of the most richly-coloured birds in the whole
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world; nor does it appear that more need be said of the lorikeets . The family is the subject of an excellent monograph by St George Mivart (
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London, 1896) . (A .

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