LORY, CHARLES (1823-1889), French geologist, was born at Nantes on the 30th of July 1823. He graduated _D. ès Sc._ in 1847; in 1852 he was appointed to the chair of geology at the University of Grenoble, and in 1881 to that of the _École Normale Supérieure_ in Paris. He was distinguished for his researches on the geology of the French Alps, being engaged on the geological survey of the departments of Isère, Drôme and the Hautes Alpes, of which he prepared the maps and explanatory memoirs. He dealt with some of the disturbances in the Savoy Alps, describing the fan-like structures, and confirming the views of J. A. Favre with regard to the overthrows, reversals and duplication of the strata. His contributions to geological literature include also descriptions of the fossils and stratigraphical divisions of the Lower Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks of the Jura. He died at Grenoble on the 3rd of May 1889. LORY (a word of Malayan origin signifying parrot, in general use with but slight variation of form in many European languages), the name of certain birds of the order _Psittaci_, mostly from the Moluccas and New Guinea, remarkable for their bright scarlet or crimson colouring, though also, and perhaps subsequently, applied to some others in which the plumage is chiefly green. The lories have been referred to a considerable number of genera, of which _Lorius_ (the _Domicella_ of some authors), _Eos_ and _Chalcopsittacus_ may be here particularized, while under the name of "lorikeets" may be comprehended such genera as _Trichoglossus_, _Charmosyna_, _Loriculus_ and _Coriphilus_. By most systematists some of these forms have been placed far apart, even in different families of _Psittaci_, but A. H. Garrod has shown (_Proc. Zool. Society_, 1874, pp. 586-598, and 1876, p. 692) the many common characters they possess, which thus goes some way to justify the relationship implied by their popular designation. A full account of these birds is given in the first part of Count T. Salvadori's _Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche_ (Turin 1880), whilst a later classification appeared in Salvadori's section of the British Museum _Catalogue of Birds_, xx., 1891.