loriletn.
/ˈlɒrɪlɛt//lɒrɪˈlɛt/ Ornithology.
Any of several very small, mainly green, short-tailed parrots of the genera Opopsitta and Psittaculirostris, native to the rainforests of north-east Australia and New Guinea. Also called fig-parrot.
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1901 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds II. 600 During my own Cardwell camp-out (1885) we procured skins of the Blue-faced Lorilet.
1929 Emu 1 Oct. 81 Is there any genus of Australian birds, containing more than one species, so little known as the Lorilets or Fig-Parrots?
1966 Eastman & Hunt Parrots Austral. 46 The Lorilets are almost impossible to distinguish from each other in flight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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