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Family II. LORIID^. 



Bill much compressed, generally longer than deep, not notched, 

 and smooth ; culmen rounded and narrow ; lower mandihle rather 

 long, with the gonys narrow, straight, and obliquely slanting up- 

 wards, not flattened in front and with no keel-like ridge ; upper 

 mandible with no file-like surface on the under surface of the 

 hook. Tongue brushy. Cere broader over the culmen and gradu- 

 ally becoming narrower along the sides of the bill. Tail graduated 

 or rounded, sometimes even, rarely longer than the wings, generally 

 shorter. Wing acute, with the three first quills generally the 

 longest. 



Range. Australian Region (except New Zealand, but including 

 Polynesia). 



Cf. Weinland, " Ueber Pinselzungen der Papageien" (Journ. f. 

 Orn. 1853, Extrah. p. lxix, Taf. ii. ff. 1-9) ; Wallace, " Correction of 

 an Important Error affecting the Classification of the Psittacidse " 

 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) iii. pp. 147, 148, 1859). 



Key to the Genera. 



I. Tail-feathers 12; point of the maxilla long, but 

 not thin. 

 a Tail rather short and nearly square ; the two 

 middle tail-feathers shorter than the lateral 

 ones; feathers of the hind neck long and [p. 41. 



covering the upper back 4. Calliptilus, 



b. Tail moderate or very long, the two middle 

 tail-feathers always longer than the lateral 

 ones. 

 a'. Tail-feathers rather broad and more or 

 less rounded at the tip. 

 a". Dimensions larger ; about the size of a 

 Turtle-dove. 

 a'". Bill black, like the cere and the [p. 12. 



naked chin 1. Ciialcopsittacts, 



b"'. Bill orange-red. 



a 4 . Red colour predominant also on 



the wings 2. Eos, p. 18. 



b*. Wings green 3. Lorius, p. 31. 



b". Dimensions smaller, larger than those 



of a Sparrow ; feathers of the crown 



long and shaft-streaked. 



&". The firsc three or four primaries 



notched at the tip ; general colour 



green 5. Yixi, p. 43. 



d'". General colour blue ; no red or green 



colour in the plumage 6. Cokiphilvs, p. 46. 



