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admitted five Subfamilies under the head of one Family, 

 while Bonaparte raised the gi'oup to the position of an 

 Order, under which he classed the Families Psittacidce (with 

 seven Subfamilies) and Strigopidcs (^with two). 



Mr, Mathews reprints Count Salvadori's arrangement for 

 •comparison with his own, which is as follows, as far as 

 Australia is concerned : — TrichoglossidcB, Opopsittida (sole 

 genus Opopsitta), Prohoscigerid(S (sole genus Probosciger 

 for Microglossus aterrimus), Kakatoeidece (Subfamilies Calg- 

 ptorhynchince and Kakatoeince) , Leptotophida, Loriidee, Poly- 

 telitida, Platycercidae, and Pezoporidce. He relies on both 

 structural and superficial characteristics for his decisions, 

 and creates new Families, Leptolophida, Proboscigerida, and 

 PolytelitidcL'f while the '' ancient forms " Pezoporus and 

 Geopsittacus are removed from the Platycercida and placed 

 with Melopsittacus in a Family Pezoporida. 



The following points also call for notice: Calyptorhynchus 

 is cited as of Desmarest, Trichoglossus as of Stephens. 

 Under the latter T. moluccanus supersedes T. novce-hoUanditB 

 and septentrionalis stands as a subspecies with colesi, and 

 eyrei as " secondary subspecies," which we take to mean 

 " hardly recognisable." Of T. rubritorquis the subspecies 

 melvillensis is dropped. 



The author's Eutelipsitta is retained for the species 

 chlorolepidota, with the subspecies neglecta, minor being 

 quashed. Similarly, under his Psitteuteles versicolor, mellori 

 and whitei are expunged. Glossopsitta has three species, 

 concinna, pusilla, and porphyrocephala, the only subspecies 

 preserved being ivhitlocki under the last. A new subgenus, 

 Parvipsitta, is proposed for the second and third species. 

 Opopsitta is upheld, as against Cyclopsitta of Reichenbach, 

 with woodcuts to show the mistakes of the author ; the 

 subspecies boiveri is dropped under C. leadbeateri, as is 

 the subgenus Manopsitta. New genera, Nannopsittacus and 

 Cruopsitta, are also proposed in the Cyclopsittacine group, 

 on account of the square tail and feathered cere respec- 

 tively. 



Next we have a thoroughly elaborated account of the 



