LE VALLANT'S PIONUS. 133 



consisting in the want of the tooth or angular pro- 

 cess on the upper mandible. The members belong- 

 ing to it are also natives of Asia and Australasia, and 

 the Psitt. mognus, Psitt. Paragua, Psitt. Sumatra- 

 nus, and Psitt. tarabe, Auct., belong to it. A third 

 group is that of Pionus, which embraces a variety 

 of species belonging to Asia, Africa, and America, 

 and which, judging from the difference of geographi- 

 cal distribution, it is likely may require still further 

 division. In the form of the tongue and feet, it 

 agrees with the genus Psittacus proper, but the tail 

 is comparatively shorter, the wings longer, and, when 

 closed, in many species extending beyond the tip of 

 the tail. The head is large, and the body short and 

 thick. An example of this group is 



LE VAILLANT'S PIONUS. 

 Pionus Le Vaillantii WAGLER. 



Pionus Le Vaillantii, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. &c. 

 pp. 499, 614 Psittacus robustus, Lath.Ind. Orn. i. p. 94. 

 Psittacus Le Vaillantii, Lath. Sup. ; Kuhl, Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 83 Psittacus infuscatus, Shawls Zoo/, viii. p. 523. 



Peroquet a franges souci, Le Vaill. Tab. 130 et 131 



Robust Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. pp. 296, 100 Damask Par- 



rot, Shaw's Zoo/, viii. 523. 



THIS is an African species, inhabiting, at a certain 

 period, the eastern parts of that continent, as high 



