TRICHOGLOSSUS SWAINSONII, Jard. and Selb.
Swainson’s Lorikeet.
Perruche de Moluques, Buff. Pl. Enl. 743.
Blue-bellied Parrakeet, Brown, Ill. of Zool., pl. 7.
Blue-bellied Parrot, White’s Voy., pl. in p. 140.—Phill. Bot. Bay., pl. in p. 152.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 413. pl. 59.
Le Perruche à tête bleue, male, Le Vaill. Hist. des Perr., tom. i. pl. 24.
Trichoglossus hæmatodus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 289.
—— multicolor, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., tom. i. p. 553.
—— Swainsonii, Jard. and Selb. Ill. Orn., vol. iii. pl. 112.—Selb. Nat. Lib. Orn., vol. vi. Parrots, p. 153. pl. 20.—Swain. Zool. Ill. 2nd Ser., vol. ii. pl. 92.—Ib. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 304.
Warrin, Aborigines of New South Wales.
This beautiful Lorikeet, so familiar to every ornithologist, has been for many years confounded with two other nearly allied species, and hence has arisen an almost inexplicable mass of confusion respecting them; their true synonymies have, however, been most ably worked out by Mr. Swainson in a paper sent by him to Sir William Jardine and Mr. Selby for insertion in their “Illustrations of Ornithology,” wherein those gentlemen, fully satisfied of the justness of Mr. Swainson’s observations, took an opportunity of naming this species Swainsonii, a tribute to the talents of that naturalist in which I most cordially participate.