Lorius
Black-capped lory
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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]

Taxonomy

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

The genus contains six species.[8]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Chattering loryLorius garrulusThree subspecies endemic to North Maluku of Indonesia
Yellow-bibbed loryLorius chlorocercusMonotypic species living in the eastern Solomon Islands
Black-capped loryLorius lorySeven subspecies endemic to New Guinea and several Papuan islands
Purple-bellied loryLorius hypoinochrousNew Guinea
White-naped loryLorius albidinuchaNew Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Purple-naped loryLorius domicellaSeram and Ambon Indonesia

References

  1. Dunning, John B. Jr., ed. (2008). CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-6444-5.
  2. Bates, H. J., Busenbark, R. L., & Vriends, M. M. (1978). Parrots and related bird. TFH Publications.
  3. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "On the arrangement of the genera of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 391–405 [400].
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

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