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Encyclopedia Britannica



LORY (a word of Malayan origin signifying parrot, in general use with but slight variation of form in many European languages)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 12 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LORY (a word of Malayan origin signifying parrot, in general use with but slight variation of form in many European languages) , the name of certain birds of the order Psittaci, mostly from the
Moluccas
  and New
Guinea
 , remarkable for their
bright
 
scarlet
  or 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 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
part
  of
Count
  T. Salvadori's Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche (
Turin
  1880), whilst a later
classification
  appeared in Salvadori's section of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, xx., 1891.
Though the name lory has often been used for the species of Eclectus, and some other genera related thereto,
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 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 surface." The birds of this 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 notice,2 though among them, and particularly in the genus Eos, are included some of the most richly-coloured birds in the whole 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 (London, 1896). (A. N.)


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