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Lorius

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Lorius

Black-capped lory
Scientific 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 MoluccasinIndonesia 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

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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

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The genus contains six species.^[8]

Genus **Lorius** – Vigors, 1825 – six species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Chattering lory	Lorius garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) Three subspecies L. g. flavopalliatus Salvadori 1877 L. g. garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) L. g. morotaianus (van Bemmel, 1940)	Three subspecies endemic to North MalukuofIndonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Yellow-bibbed lory	Lorius chlorocercus Gould, 1856	eastern Solomon Islands	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-capped lory	Lorius lory Linnaeus, 1758 Seven subspecies L. l. lory L. l. erythrothorax L. l. somu L. l. salvadorii L. l. viridicrissalis L. l. jobiensis L. l. cyanuchen	New Guinea and several Papuan islands	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Purple-bellied lory	Lorius hypoinochrous (Gray, 1859) Three subspecies L. h. devittatus Hartert 1898 L. h. hypoinochrous Gray, GR 1859 L. h. rosselianus Rothschild & Hartert 1918	New Guinea	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-naped lory	Lorius albidinucha (Rothschild & Hartert, 1924)	New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Purple-naped lory	Lorius domicella (Linnaeus, 1758)	Seram and Ambon Indonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN

Turn around video of the male Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, syntype, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Turn around video of the female Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, syntype, Naturalis Biodiversity Center

References

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^ 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.

v t e Lories and lorikeets (Tribe: Loriini)
Genus	Species (taxonomy note: * indicates taxa that may classified as a subspecies of the rainbow lorikeet or a separate species) (extinctions: † indicates a species confirmed to be extinct, ₴ indicates evidence only from sub-fossils)
Chalcopsitta	Black lory Brown lory (or Duyvenbode's lory) Yellow-streaked lory
Eos	Black-winged lory Violet-necked lory Blue-streaked lory Red-and-blue lory Red lory Blue-eared lory
Pseudeos	Dusky lory Cardinal lory
Trichoglossus	Pohnpei lorikeet Rainbow lorikeet Sunset Lorikeet (or scarlet-breasted lorikeet) * Leaf lorikeet (also Flores lorikeet or Weber's lorikeet) * Marigold lorikeet * Red-collared lorikeet * Scaly-breasted lorikeet Olive-headed lorikeet Coconut lorikeet Biak lorikeet
Saudareos	Mindanao lorikeet (or Johnstone's lorikeet) Sula lorikeet Yellow-cheeked lorikeet Ornate lorikeet Iris lorikeet
Psitteuteles	Varied lorikeet
Glossoptilus	Goldie's lorikeet
Lorius	Purple-bellied lory Black-capped lory (or Stresemann's lory) White-naped lory Yellow-bibbed lory Purple-naped lory Chattering lory
Vini	Blue-crowned lorikeet Kuhl's lorikeet (or Rimatara lorikeet) Stephen's lorikeet (or Henderson lorikeet) Violet lorikeet (blue lorikeet or Tahitian lory) Ultramarine lorikeet Palm lorikeet Red-chinned lorikeet Meek's lorikeet New Caledonian lorikeet Red-throated lorikeet Collared lory Sinoto's lorikeet † ₴ Conquered lorikeet † ₴
Glossopsitta	Musk lorikeet
Parvipsitta	Little lorikeet Purple-crowned lorikeet
Charmosyna	Josephine's lorikeet Papuan lorikeet Stella's lorikeet
Charminetta	Pygmy lorikeet
Hypocharmosyna	Red-fronted lorikeet Red-flanked lorikeet
Charmosynopsis	Blue-fronted lorikeet Fairy lorikeet
Synorhacma	Striated lorikeet
Charmosynoides	Duchess lorikeet
Neopsittacus	Yellow-billed lorikeet (or Musschenbroek's lorikeet) Orange-billed lorikeet (or emerald lorikeet)