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The conclusion of the whole matter appears to me to be 

 that it is better to individually battle in the gardens rather 

 than collectively to go abroad to war. Whatever means 

 we use at home are necessary — in the first place to make 

 them fear us through simple fright, or in the second place to 

 cause them to dread us by kilHng many of their number 

 Various means might be adopted, as with the Crow. 



Psittaci, so named by Ritgen in 1826, and now generally 

 adopted, has its greatest diversity of types in the Austrahan 

 region, but the largest numbers in the neo-tropical (South 

 America). Excluding the thorough globe-trotters (Plover-like 

 birds), Parrots are reckoned as great an order of vagrants as 

 any of the class, following as they do the flowering of the 

 eucalypts from the low to higher latitudes. Of over 500 

 known species, 63 are Australian. Of these about 45 are to 

 be found in the south. The following list will give an idea 

 of the outline classification of the order, the first three being 

 families {idee termination), the last two sub-famihes {ince 

 termination) : — 



1. Cacatuidse — Black Cockatoos, 7 species; White to Rose- 

 tinted Cockatoos, 7 species ; Grey Cockatoos, 1 species. 



2. Loriidse (Brush-tongued Parrots) — 7 species ; e.g.. Musk 

 Lorikeet. 



3. Cyclopsittacidae (Fig Parrakeets) — 2 species ; habitat in 

 Queensland. Family Psittacidse. 



4. Palseornithinae (" Merry- thought," furcula, present) — 

 6 species ; e.g., King Lory. 



5. Platycercinse (" Merry-thought " bone absent) — 33 species 

 of broad-tails ; e.g., Rosella. 



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