_Characters._--Adult: A medium-sized, dark raspberry-red lory with head and nape deep purplish-red; upper back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts raspberry-red, edged with blackish; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more purplish; tail yellowish-green becoming more yellow and less green toward tip; wings black with outer webs olivaceous-green; outer edges of primaries more yellowish; lores, chin, auriculars, sides of head, and neck deep purplish-red, chin feathers faintly barred with raspberry and edged with blackish; throat, breast, abdomen, and flanks raspberry-red, feathers edged with blackish except on lower abdomen; under tail-coverts orange-red, under wing-coverts deep purple with black edges; bill of male orange, of female paler yellow; feet black; iris of male light yellowish-orange, of female grayish-white. Immature: Resembles adult, but with narrow and more sharply pointed tail feathers. _Measurements._--Measurements are presented in table 29. TABLE 29. MEASUREMENTS OF _Trichoglossus rubiginosus_ ===============+=====+===========+===========+=========+========= | | | | Culmen | Sex | No. | Wing | Tail | from | Tarsus | | | | cere | ---------------+-----+-----------+-----------+---------+--------- Adult males | 18 | 147 | 105 | 20 | 16 | | (143-153) | (100-110) | (19-20) | (15-17) | | | | | Adult females | 13 | 142 | 101 | 19 | 16 | | (141-146) | (98-104) | (18-19) | (15-17) ---------------+-----+-----------+-----------+---------+--------- _Specimens examined._--Total number, 31 (18 males, 13 females), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Ponapé, 2 (Feb. 12); AMNH--Ponapé, 29 (Nov.). _Nesting._--According to Coultas (field notes) the nest is placed in the top of a coconut tree or in a hollow of a large forest tree. He says that one egg is laid, but does not record dates of nesting. Four of the birds taken by Coultas at Ponapé in November had swollen gonads. _Molt._--Specimens taken in November by Coultas were either in fresh plumage or were completing the molt when obtained. _Parasites._--Uchida (1918:484, 493) found the bird lice (Mallophaga), _Psittaconirmus harrisoni_ and _Eomenopon denticulatus_, on the Ponapé Lory.