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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Psittacidae — severalNew Guinea andSolomon Islands lories .
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I here saw for the first time the rare black lory from New Guinea, Chalcopsitta atra.
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I here saw for the first time the rare black lory from New Guinea, Chalcopsitta atra.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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