Description
Eos cyanogenia
Date 1850
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850 (http://www.archive.org/stream/lietuvostsrmoksl50liet#page/n51/mode/1up)
Author Joseph Wolf (1820–1899)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EosCyanogeniaWolf.jpg

The black-winged lory (Eos cyanogenia) also known as Biak red lory is a medium-sized, about 30 cm long, long-tailed lory. It has a bright red plumage, black shoulder, red iris, an orange red bill and violet ear-patch behind eye. The underwings are red, becoming yellowish with black tips. Both sexes are similar. An Indonesian endemic, the black-winged lory is distributed to forests and coastal habitat of Biak, Numfoor, and Mios Num islands in Cenderawasih Bay, Papua. It frequents and roosts in coconut trees.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Loriinae
Tribe: Loriini
Genus: Eos
Species: Eos cyanogenia Bonaparte, 1850