LOTUS-BIRD—LOVE-BIRD 521 
Chalcopsittacus, and their near allies belonging to the so-called 
Family of Trichoglosside, or “ Brush-tongued” Parrots, more 
correctly termed, as by Count T. Salvadori, Loriidx. Garrod, 
however, in the course of his investigations on the anatomy of the 
Psittacc was led to attach little importance to the structure 
indicated by the epithet “brush-tongued,” stating (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1874, p. 597) that it “is only an excessive development of the 
papillz which are always found on the lingual surface.” The birds 
of this group are very characteristic of the Papuan Subregion,’ in 
which occur, according to Count T. Salvadori, ten species of Lorius, 
twelve of Hos, and seven of Chalcopsittacus; but none seem here to 
require any further notice,? though among them, and particularly 
in the genus Hos, are included some of the most richly-coloured 
birds to be found in the whole world; nor does it appear that 
more need be said of the so-called Lorikeets. 
LOTUS-BIRD, the name given in Queensland to the Australian 
JACANA or Parra, Hydralector cristatus. 
LOVE-BIRD, a name indefinitely bestowed, chiefly by 
dealers in live animals and their customers, on some of the 
smaller short-tailed PArrors, from the remarkable affection which 
examples of opposite sexes exhibit towards each other, an affection 
popularly believed to be so great that of a pair that have been kept 
together in captivity neither can long survive the loss of its 
partner. By many systematic ornithologists the little birds thus 
named, brought almost entirely from Africa and South America, 
have been retained in a single genus, Psittacula, though those 
belonging to the former country were by others separated as 
Agapornis. This separation, however, was by no means generally 
approved, and indeed it was not easily justified, until Garrod (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 593) assigned good anatomical ground, afforded 
by the structure of the carotid artery, for regarding the two 
' groups as distinct, and thus removed what had seemed to be the 
almost unintelligible puzzle presented by the geographical distribu- 
tion of the species of Psitiacula in a large sense, though Prof. 
Huxley (op. cit. 1868, p. 319) had indeed already suggested one 
way of meeting the difficulty. Nine species of Psittacula are 
recognized by Count T. Salvadori (Cat. B. Br. Mus. xx. pp. 240- 
252), who places them in his subfamily Conurinx, while he assigns 
Urochroma, often considered to be nearly allied, to another sub- 
family Pionine—but all these inhabit the New World. On the 
other hand, all the seven species of Agapornis, which he admits, 
belong to the Ethiopian Region, and all but one, 4. cana (which 
1 They extend, however, to Fiji, Tahiti, and Fanning Island. 
2 Unless it be Orcopsittacus arfaki, of New Guinea, remarkable as the only 
Parrot known as yet to have fourteen instead of twelve rectrices. 
