Lorius is a genus of lory in the parrot family Psittaculidae. The genus contains six species that are distributed from the Moluccas in Indonesia through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. They have characteristic red plumage with varying amounts of blue (and in some yellow and white), green wings, and in all but one species a black crown. The bills are orange and the feet are grey. With lengths of up to 25 to 30 cm (9.8 to 11.8 in) and average weights of 132 to 190 g (4.7 to 6.7 oz), the members of this genus tend to be the largest of the Loriinae subfamily.[1][2]
| Lorius | |
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| Black-capped lory | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Tribe: | Loriini |
| Genus: | Lorius Vigors, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Psittacus domicella purple-naped lory Linnaeus, 1758
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Taxonomy edit
The genus Lorius was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with the purple-naped lory as the type species.[3] The word "lory" comes from the Malay lūri, a name used for a number of species of colourful parrots.[4] The word was used by the Dutch writer Johan Nieuhof in 1682 in a book describing his travels in the East Indies.[5] The spelling "laurey" was used by English naturalist Eleazar Albin in 1731 for a species of parrot from Brazil,[6] and then in 1751 the English naturalist George Edwards used the spelling "lory" when introducing names for five species of parrot from the East Indies in the fourth volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Edwards credited Nieuhof for the name.[7]
Species edit
The genus contains six species.[8]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Chattering lory
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Lorius garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Three subspecies endemic to North Maluku of Indonesia | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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| Yellow-bibbed lory
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Lorius chlorocercus Gould, 1856 |
eastern Solomon Islands | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Black-capped lory
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Lorius lory Linnaeus, 1758 Seven subspecies
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New Guinea and several Papuan islands | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Purple-bellied lory
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Lorius hypoinochrous (Gray, 1859) Three subspecies
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New Guinea | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| White-naped lory
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Lorius albidinucha (Rothschild & Hartert, 1924) |
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Purple-naped lory
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Lorius domicella (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Seram and Ambon Indonesia | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
EN
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Turn around video of the male Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, syntype, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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Turn around video of the female Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, syntype, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
References edit
- ^ Dunning, John B. Jr., ed. (2008). CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-6444-5.
- ^ Bates, H. J., Busenbark, R. L., & Vriends, M. M. (1978). Parrots and related bird. TFH Publications.
- ^ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "On the arrangement of the genera of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 391–405 [400].
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Nieuhof, Johan (1682). Zee en lant-reize, door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien : behelzende veele zeltzaame en wonderlijke voorvallen en geschiedenissen. Beneffens een beschrijving van lantschappen, steden, dieren, gewassen, draghten, zeden en godsdienst der inwoonders en inzonderheit een wijtloopig verhael der stad Batavia (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs. p. 287.
- ^ Albin, Eleazar; Derham, William (1731). A Natural History of Birds : Illustrated with a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life. Vol. 1. London: Printed for the author and sold by William Innys. p. 13, Plate 13.
- ^ Edwards, George (1751). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Vol. Part 4. London: Printed for the author at the College of Physicians. pp. 170–174.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
Further reading edit
- Forshaw, Joseph M. (2006). Parrots of the World; an Identification Guide. Illustrated by Frank Knight. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09251-6.
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