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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Lorius''
| image = Lorius lory - Bird Park, Singapore - upside down-8a.jpg
| image_caption = [[Black-capped lory]]
| taxon = Lorius
| authority = [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], 1825
| type_species = ''Psittacus domicella''<br/>[[purple-naped lory]]
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|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 [[beak|bills]] are orange and the feet are grey. With lengths of up to {{convert|25|to|30|cm|in|abbr=on}} and average weights of {{convert|132|to|190|g|oz|abbr=on}}, the members of this genus tend to be the largest of the [[Loriinae]] subfamily.<ref>{{cite book |title=CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses |edition=2nd |editor-first=John B. Jr. |editor-last=Dunning |publisher=CRC Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4200-6444-5}}</ref><ref>Bates, H. J., Busenbark, R. L., & Vriends, M. M. (1978). ''Parrots and related bird''. TFH Publications.</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Lorius'' was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors]] with the [[purple-naped lory]] as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Vigors | first=Nicholas Aylward | author-link=Nicholas Aylward Vigors | year=1825 | title=On the arrangement of the genera of birds | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=2 | pages=391–405 [400] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2255537 }}</ref> The word "lory" comes from the [[Malay language|Malay]] ''lūri'', a name used for a number of species of colourful parrots.<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=231 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n231/mode/1up }}</ref> The word was used by the Dutch writer [[Johan Nieuhof]] in 1682 in a book describing his travels in the [[East Indies]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Nieuhof | first=Johan | author-link=Johan Nieuhof | title=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 | year=1682 | language=Dutch | location=Amsterdam | publisher=Jacob van Meurs | page=287 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEZnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287 }}</ref> The spelling "laurey" was used by English naturalist [[Eleazar Albin]] in 1731 for a species of parrot from Brazil,<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Albin | first1=Eleazar | author1-link=Eleazar Albin | last2=Derham | first2=William | author2-link=William Derham | year=1731 | title=A Natural History of Birds : Illustrated with a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life | volume=1 | page=13, Plate 13| location=London | publisher=Printed for the author and sold by William Innys | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41130217 }}</ref> and then in 1751 the English naturalist [[George Edwards (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.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1751 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | place=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part 4 | pages=170–174 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196404 }}</ref>

===Species===
The genus contains six species.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=24 July 2021 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus=Lorius |authority-name= [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]]|authority-year= 1825 |species-count=six|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row
|name=Chattering lory|binomial=[[Lorius garrulus]]
|image=File:Lorius garrulus-20070107.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name= Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Three subspecies endemic to [[North Maluku]] of [[Indonesia]]
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|iucn-status= VU
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
| ''L. g. flavopalliatus'' <small>[[Tommaso Salvadori|Salvadori]] 1877</small> 
| ''L. g. garrulus ''<small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)</small>
| ''L. g. morotaianus ''  <small>(van Bemmel, 1940)</small>
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name=Yellow-bibbed lory|binomial=[[Lorius chlorocercus]]
|image=File:Lorius chlorocercus-20040821.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould  |authority-year=1856 |authority-not-original=
|range= eastern Solomon Islands
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{{Species table/row
|name=Black-capped lory|binomial=[[Lorius lory]]
|image=File:Lorius lory -Newport Aquarium-8a-2c.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus  |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=
|range=  [[New Guinea]] and several Papuan islands
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Seven subspecies |bullets=on
| ''L. l. lory''
| ''L. l. erythrothorax''
| ''L. l. somu''
| ''L. l. salvadorii''
| ''L. l. viridicrissalis''
| ''L. l. jobiensis''
| ''L. l. cyanuchen''
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name=Purple-bellied lory|binomial=[[Lorius hypoinochrous]]
|image=File:Lorius hypoinochrous qtl1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gray |authority-year=1859 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= New Guinea
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
|''L. h. devittatus'' <small>Hartert 1898</small>
|''L. h. hypoinochrous'' <small>Gray, GR 1859</small>
|''L. h. rosselianus'' <small>Rothschild & Hartert 1918</small>
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name=White-naped lory|binomial=[[Lorius albidinucha]]
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|authority-name=Rothschild & Hartert  |authority-year=1924 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= [[New Ireland (island)|New Ireland]], Papua New Guinea
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{{Species table/row
|name=Purple-naped lory|binomial=[[Lorius domicella]]
|image=File:Lorius domicella -Jurong Bird Park, Singapore-8a-2c.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus  |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Seram and Ambon Indonesia
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{{Species table/end}}

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.AVES.209 - Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909 - Psittacidae - bird skin specimen.webm|Turn around video of the male Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, [[syntype]], [[Naturalis Biodiversity Center]]
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.AVES.210 - Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909 - Psittacidae - bird skin specimen.webm|Turn around video of the female Lorius lory viridicrissalis De Beaufort, 1909. Museum specimen, syntype, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{Cite book |first=Joseph M. |last=Forshaw |author-link=Joseph Forshaw |title=Parrots of the World; an Identification Guide |others=Illustrated by [[Frank Knight (artist)|Frank Knight]] |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=0-691-09251-6 |year=2006 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/parrotsofworldid0000fors }}

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