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ORANGE-WINGED LORIKEET. 



Trichoglossus pyrrhopterus WAGLE R. 



PLATE XXII. 



Brotogeris pyrrhopterus, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 400. 

 Psittacus pyrrhopterus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. p. 22, No. 7; 

 Vig. in Zool. Journ. i. 535 Orange-winged Parrakeet, 

 Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 90, No. 16. 



FROM this bird, which Mr Vigors described in 

 the first volume of the Zoological Journal, under 

 Latham's title of the Orange-winged Parrakeet, he 

 afterwards formed his genus Brotogeris ; but, as we 

 have previously observed, the characters upon which 

 it is instituted seem to vary so little from those of 

 Trichoglossus, that we have followed the example of 

 Wagler, and retained it in the latter genus, in close 

 association, however, with Trichoglossus palmar urn, 

 another Pacific species, which, as a slight y aberrant 

 form, seems gradually to lead to other and stronger 

 billed groups of the Psittacidse. It is a native of 

 the Sandwich Islands, and not of the Brazils, as at 

 first supposed by Dr Latham ; and the two indivi- 

 duals which we well recollect seeing, when in Mr 

 Vigors's possession, were brought to England in the 



