Psittacidae

Lorius cyanauchen viridicrissalis
De Beaufort, 1909: 403

Current name:
Lorius lory viridicrissalis

Black-capped Lory
2 syntypes

Syntype: ZMA 209, adult male, surroundings of Lake Sentani (SW of Jayapura, N Irian Jaya, Indonesia), collected 8 Apr 1903 for L.F. de Beaufort; wing 168, tail 101, bill to feathers 29.0, tarsus 24.7.

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Syntype: ZMA 210, adult female, surroundings of Lake Sentani, collected Apr-Jun 1903 for De Beaufort; wing 170, tail 96, bill to feathers 26.3, tarsus 21.3.

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Additional information
The type series consisted of 8 syntypes, collected in Apr-Jun 1903 for De Beaufort: a juvenile from the 'Humboldt Bay area' taken 21 Apr (coll. nr. 165), 2 adult males and 4 adult females collected Apr-June in the same area (coll. nrs. 55-57, 99, 374, 376), and an adult from the Tami River presented by a native collector (coll. nr. 316) (De Beaufort 1909). Van den Hoek Ostende et al. (1997) list 6 syntypes for the RMNH, but do not cite De Beaufort's collection numbers for these; as can be judged from dates and localities, De Beaufort's first- and last-mentioned birds are in the RMNH, as are three females and one male of the others, here cited as being from Lake Sentani (rather than from the Humboldt Bay area as in the original description). The remaining pair is in the ZMA. This taxon differs from the closely related salvadorii mainly in the verditer-blue rather than dark blue under tail-coverts and in the darker blue hindneck, which is more blackish blue.

Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.

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