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Psittacus Aracanga — The Red and Yellow Maccanv. 
Plate XLVIII. fig. 7. 
Scarlet; quills of a bright cobalt-blue ; feathers on the lower 
part of the neck tinged with green at their edges; upper wing- 
coverts the same ; larger wing-coverts light yellow, tipped with 
green; face naked, white; upper mandible yellowish-white; 
lower mandible, claws, and legs, deep black. Two feet long. 
Inhabits Cayenne and Surinam. 
Sub. Genus 4. —Palhsohnis. —Parrakeets.— Vigors ..— Cheeks 
clothed with feathers ; tail long and graduated •, the two middle 
feathers greatly lengthened. 
Psittacus Alexandria — The Alexandrine Parrakeet. 
Plate XLVIII. fig. 9. 
Emerald green ; bill deep ruby ; neck half encircled by a rose 
coloured collar; fore part of the throat with a black patch ex¬ 
tending laterally in two narrow processes on each side of the 
neck; a black line extending from the bill to the eyes. Length 
twenty inches. Inhabits Ceylon. 
Family II.—Bill straight, angular, and generally cuneiform. 
Genus 18.—PIC US.— Linnaeus. 
Generic Character .—Bill about the length of the head, straight, 
conical, compressed, angular, and cuneiform at the point; nos¬ 
trils basal, oval, open, concealed by the setaceous feathers at the 
base of the bill; tongue long, extensile, and vermiform ; legs 
very strong ; feet large; two toes before and two behind, armed 
with strong hooked claws ; anterior toes adhering at their base, 
the posterior ones divided; tail with twelve feathers, the lateral 
ones being very short. 
Picus major .— The Greater Spotted Woodpecker. 
Plate XLIX. fig. I. 
Black above, variegated with white; cheeks, throat, venter, 
and crissum, white; nape deep red; bill bluish-black; irides 
purplish-red; legs and feet gray. Nine inches long. Inhabits 
Europe. 
