THE PARRAQUET GROUP 



1895 



never lived, and yet he seems to like it, and to be specially proud of his beautiful, 

 but utterly unamiable wife. ' ' 



The last group of this great subfamily is formed by the curious 

 hanging parrots, so called from their habit of sleeping head down- 

 ward, suspended by their feet from a bough. These parrots, which 

 are about the same size as love birds, comprise twenty species, ranging from India 

 and the Philippine islands through the Malayan region as far east as Duke of York 

 island. They differ from all the other members of the subfamily in the thinness 



Hanging 

 Parrots 



BI.UE-CROWNED HANGING PARROTS ASLEEP. 

 (Two-thirds natural size.) 



of the beak, in which the length exceeds the depth; the upper mandible being long 

 and but little curved, while the profile of the lower one slopes upward with very 

 little convexity. In all of them the under surface of the remiges and tail feathers 

 is of a bright verditer blue. They are brilliantly colored, with green as the pre- 

 dominant tint, and Dr. Guillemard describes a species from the Sulu islands (Lori- 

 culus bonapartei} as looking like a little glowing ball of vivid crimson, yellow, and 

 green. The blue-crowned species (L. galgulus), here figured, is an inhabitant of 

 the Malay Peninsula and Islands, and measures just over five inches in total length. 



