Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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PURPLE-CAPPED LOHT (\ Hilt, .sizej. powers; for which reasons, together with the gorgeousness of its plumage, it is inmuch request as a pet. Mr. Gedney writes that as a ventriloquist the purple-cap possesses no equal, and the manner in which he will imitate domestic sounds,throwing his voice to the opposite side of the room, is perfectly startling to astranger. The black-capped, or tri-coloured lory (X. lory), from New Guinea, etc.,belongs to the group in which there is no yellow gorget; it has the whole of theabdomen blue, a red throat, green wings, and a black cap. The lori(;uets are smaller birds than the lories, with the tail-feathers elongated and gradually tapering to a more or less acutepoint. In the present genus, of which we take Swainsons loriquet (Trichoglossuf<novce-hollandice) as a well-known example, the prevailing colour of the plumage, VOL. IV. — 7 Loriquets. 98 PARROTS. both above and below, is green; the tail-feathers being entirely of this hue, andmoderate in l

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