86 CTCLOPSITTACID^E. 



Family III. CYCLOPSITTACIDiE. 



Bill moderately or much swollen on the sides ; upper mandible 

 notched, -without transverse ridges on the under surface of the 

 hook ; lower mandible with the gonys upright and flattened m 

 front ; cere naked round the exposed nostrils, or feathered and 

 nostrils hidden (tongue not known) ; tail moderate and graduated, 

 or short and cuneate, or rounded. 



Range. Austro-Malayan subregion. 



Key to the Genera. 



I. Bill yellow-orange, moderately swollen 



on the sides ; under mandible mode- 

 rately broad, with the gonys flattened 

 in front, smooth, and with no distinct 

 ridges ; nostrils exposed 1. Neopsittacus, p. 86. 



II. Bid black or dark horn-colour, much 



swollen on the sides ; gonys broadly 

 flattened in front, and with several dis- 

 tinct ridges and grooves ; nostrils ex- 

 posed, or hidden when the cere is 

 feathered 2. Cyclopsittacus, p. 88. 



1. NEOPSITTACUS. T a 



lype. 

 Neopsittacus, Sah:ad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 



p. 761 (1875) N. muschenbroeki. 



Range. New Guinea and Timor. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Inner web of the quills towards the base 



re <j muschenbroeki, p. 86. 



II. Inner web of the quills with no red at the 



base. 



a. Hind part of the pileuin purple-blue .... iris, p. 87. 



b. Pilenm entirely red rubripileum, p. 88. 



1. Neopsittacus muschenbroeki. 



Nanodes muscenbroekii, Rosenb. in litt. ; Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 



iv. p. 34 (1871) (type examined) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Rente, 



p. 52 (1«74) ; Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 102, 113, 137 



(1875) ; id. Malay. Archip. p. 591 (1871-79). 

 Trichoglossus muschenbroekii, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697 ; Meyer, 



Sitzb. Isis Dresd. 1875, p. 78 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1675, p. 041 ; id. 



Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 61, pi. 44 (1876) ; Gould, B. New Guin. 



pt. v. pi. 8 (1877); Rchnw.Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 154 {Consp.Psitt. 



