444 CLASS XVI. 



longest of all. Tall long, graduated, with two middle featliers 

 elongate. 



Sub-genus Trichoylossus ViGOES (add Brotogeris ejusd.). With the tip 

 of tongue covered with setaceous papillae. Sp. Psittacus multicolor Gm., 

 Trichofflossus Sivainsoni Jardine and Selbt, Buff. PL enl. 743, Selby 

 Parr. PI. 20. 



Sub-genus Palceornls Vigors. Sp. Psittacus Alexandrl L., Buff. PI. 

 enl. 642, Selbt Parr. Pi. 2 ; green, head greyish-green ; a red-purple spot 

 on the shoulder-top of the wings ; neck flesh-red, a black transverse band 

 on the throat, bill red; Hindostan. 



Sub-genus Nanodes Vigors, Melopsittacus Gould, Gray. Sp. Psittacus 

 undulatus Shaw, Leak Parr. PI. 13, Selby 1. 1. PI. 28; a small, green 

 species, with yellow head and brownish back, and many black transverse 

 stripes across the neck ; from the interior of Australia. 



Sub-genus NympMcus Wagl., Calopsitta Less. Sp. Psittacus nova 

 HollandiK Gmel., Lear Parr. PI. 27, Lesson Illustr. de Zool. PI. 49, 50, 

 Selby 1. 1. PI. 30 ; grey, with an orange-coloured spot under the eyes, and 

 a thin long crest like that of the peewit. 



Conurus Kuhl (in part), Gray, Psittacara Vigoks. Bill mo- 

 derate, curved, with tip of upper mandible produced, acute. Orbits 

 denuded. Wings with second and third quills subequal, longest 

 of all. Tail elongated, graduated, with feathers acuminate. 



Sp. Psittacus carolinensis L., Buff. PI. enl. 499, Wilson Am. Ornith., ed. 

 Jard. I. p. 376, PI. 26, fig. I ; green, head yellow, near the bill orange, 

 shoulder-tops of wings orange, bill and legs pale yellow; the only species 

 of parrot which occurs in the United States. — Psittacus guijanensis Gmel. 

 PL enl. 16'i, 407, &c. 



Macrocercus Yieill., Ara Briss., Gray. Bill strong, with cul- 

 men flat, compressed at the sides, curved, high. Cheeks denuded. 

 (Tail of Conurus). 



Sp. Psittacus Ararauna L., Buff. PI. enl. 36, Lear Pa7-r. PI. 8, Selby 1. 1. 

 PL 6 ; a very large species ; back, wings and tail blue, breast and belly yellow, 

 bill black; — Psittacus hyacinthinus Lath., Lear Parr. PI. 9, Cuv. R. Ani., 

 id. ill., Ois. PI. 55, fig. i; — Psittacus Aracanga Gm., Buff. PI. enl. 12, 

 Guerin Iconogr., Ois. PI. 36, fig. i, Selby 1. 1. PI. 7; — Psittacus Macao 

 L. (in part), Gm., ^ra 6msi7ie»isis Briss. Ornith. iv. PI. 19, fig. i, Vaill. 

 Perr. PI. r ; the two last-named species, united apparently by LiNN^us 

 under Psittacus Macao, are deep red, with blue wings and the tail blue 

 above; the bill is whitish-yellow, with lower mandible black; but the first 

 has, besides other characters, some yellow on the wings, by which it may 

 be most readily distinguished. Both species occur in Brasil, the first in 

 Guyana also and in Jamaica. 



Wagler unites this and the preceding sub-genus, Conurus, in a single 

 genus Sittace, All the species are from America. 



