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blance to the Parrakeets, or genus Palseornis, Vigors 

 and this analogy we might expect to find, if, as we 

 suppose, the Parrakeets in their own circle consti- 

 tute the Tenui rostral type. In the present genus, 

 we are also induced to retain the Orange-winged 

 Parrot of authors (Psittacus pyrrhopterus), for which 

 bird Mr Vigors instituted the genus Brotogeris, as 

 we cannot observe any character of sufficient import- 

 ance to warrant a generic separation, the only dif- 

 ference seeming to be a slight elongation of the tip 

 of the upper mandible; but this is rendered less 

 abrupt by the intervention of another species, the 

 Trichoglossus palmarum, in which it is of a size in- 

 termediate between that of Trich* chlorolepidotus, T. 

 Swainsonii, &c., and that of Trick, pyrrhopterus. 

 The first example we give of this genus is the 



