Lionel Dietrichsen

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Two small lorikeets, each with a dark purple crown and a yellow-orange forehead and ear-coverts (akin to the location of cheeks on a person). One is inside a birdhouse, only its neck, head, and feet visible. The other is perched at the entrance. Starting behind the purple crown, its feathers are a gradient of green to yellow down the nape to the mantle, or upper back. Its chin, chest and belly are light blue, and its thighs and under-tail feathers are yellowish-green. Its green tail has some orange-red coloration at the bases of the lateral feathers.
A pair of purple-crowned lorikeets (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala), which Dietrichsen described in 1837.

Lionel Lorenzo Dietrichsen (1806–1846) was an English ornithologist who operated as a merchant at Oxford Street. He collected bird skins and described the species Parvipsitta porphyrocephala, which is known as Dietrichsen's lory, in 1832.[1] He died, unmarried, reportedly by nearly severing his own head.[2]

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