312 AVES. : 
The feathers on the flanks of some of them are silky, and singu- 
larly extended into bunches longer than the body, which give such a 
hold to the wind that they are very often swept away by it. There 
are also two bearded filaments adhering to the rump, which are as 
long, and even longer than the feathers on the flanks.(1) 
P. apoda, L.; Enl. 2543 Vaill. Ois. de Par. pl. 15 Vieill. Ois. 
de Par. pl. 1. Size of a thrush; maronne; top of the head and 
neck yellow; circumference of the beak and throat of an eme- 
rald green. It is the male of this species which is ornamented 
with those long bundles of yellowish feathers, employed by the 
ladies as plumes. There is a somewhat smaller race. 
P. rubra, Vaill. pl. 63 Vieill. pl. 3. The fascicles of flank 
feathers of a beautiful red, and the filaments broader and con- 
cave on one side. 
In others we still find the filaments, but the feathers on the flanks, 
although somewhat elongated, do not extend beyond the tail. 
P. regia, Enl. 496; Vaill. 7; Vieill. 5, and Galer. 96. Size 
‘of a finch; a fine purple maronne; white belly; a band across 
the brcast, the tips of the flank-feathers, and the barbs which 
widen the extremities of the two long filaments, emerald- 
green.(2) 
P, magnifica; Sonnerat, 983; Enl. 6313 Vaill. 9; Vieill. 4. 
Maronne above; green beneath and on the flanks; quills of the 
wings yellow; a fascicle of straw-coloured feathers on each side 
of the neck, another of a deeper yellow opposite to the fold of 
the wing. 
Some have the slender feathers on the flanks, but they are short, 
and the filaments on the rump are wanting. 
P. aurea, Gm.; P. sexsetacea, Shaw; Sonnerat, pl. 97; Enl. 
6353 Vaill. 12; Vieill. 6,and Galer. 97. Size of a Thrush; black; 
a golden-green spot on the throat; three feathers from each ear 
extended into long filaments, terminated by a small disk of barbs 
of the same colour as the spot on the throat.(3) . 
Others again have no filaments, nor are the feathers of the flanks 
elongated. In : 
P. superba, Sonnerat, 96; Enl. 632; Vaill. 14; Vieill. 7; Ga- 
ler. 98(4), the feathers of the scapulars are prolonged, how- 
ever, into a kind of mantlet which can be laid so as to cover the 
wings, and those of the breast into a sort of pendent and forked 
coat-of-arms. With the exception of this latter, which is of a 
(1) M. Vieillot has made a genus of my first division, which he calls Samaria. 
(2) Vieillot makes his genus Crxcrnnurvs of this species. 
(3) This species constitutes the genus Parorra, Vieill. Gal. 97. 
(4) This species forms the genus Lornorina, Gal. 98. 
