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of what particular district we are ignorant. It is 

 likely that this bird and its congeners will constitute 

 the rasorial type of this subfamily. In the lengthened 

 tail feathers of this genus an analogy or distant affi- 

 nity to the King Parrakeets, with which the illustra- 

 tions commenced) may be traceu. 



