SCANSORI A. 339 
Among those which have a long cuneiform tail, we first distinguish 
Ara, Kuhl. 
The Aras or Maccaws, whose cheeks are divested of feathers. 
They are American species, most commonly very large, and their 
plumage extremely brilliant, on account of which many of them are 
sent alive to Europe.(1) 
The other long-tailed Parrots have the common name of 
Cornurus, Kuhl, 
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Or Paroquets. Le Vaillant divides them into the 
ARA-PAroqurErts, 
Which have a naked space round the eye; they inhabit America 
like the Ara: (2) and into the 
ARROW-TAILED PAROQUETS, 
Where the two middle quills extend far beyond the others.(3) 
Such is the first species known in Europe, where it was 
brought by Alexander; Psittacus Alerandri, L., Enl. 642. It is 
of a fine green, with a red collar on the neck, and a black spot 
under the throat. The third subdivision of Le Vaillant is the 
(1) Psitt. macao, L., Vaill. 1;—Ps. aracanga, Enl. 12, Vaill. 2;—Ps. tricolor, 
| Waill. 5;—Ps. hyacinthinus, Lath., or AnodorhynchusMaximiliani, Spix, X1;—Ps. 
ararauna, Enl. 36;—Ps. militaris, Vaill. 4;—Ps. severus, Vaill. 8, 9, 10;—Ps. 
* macawuanna, Enl. 864, Vaill. 7;—Arara purpureo-dorsalis, Spix, XXIV. 
(2). Ps. guyannensis, Enl. 167, 407, Vaill. 14, 15;—Ps. sqguamosus, Shaw, Mis- 
cell. 1061;—Ps. vittatus, Vaill. 17;—Ps. versicolor, Enl. 144, Vaill. 16;—Ps. 
solstitialis, Vaill. 16—19, or Aratinga chryso-cephalus, Spix, XIV. His Aratinga 
Juteus is a variety. A 
(3) It is this division which furnished MM. Vigors and Horsfield with their genus 
Patzornis. We should place in it, 
Ps. torquatus, Briss. Enl. 551;—Ps. Alexandri, U.. Enl. 642, Vaill. 30; Edw. 
292, the young of which, according to Kuhl, is Ps. eupatria, L., Vaill. 73, Enl. 
239;—Ps. annulatus, Bechst. Vaill. 75, 76,—Ps. erythrocephalus, L., gingianus, 
Lath. Vaill. 45, Edw. 233;—Ps. malaccensis, Gmel.;—Ps. barrabandi, Swains. II, 
59, or barbulatus, Bechst. Enl. 888, Vaill. 72;—Ps. bengalensis, Gm. Enl. 888, 
Vaill. 74;—Ps. papuensis, Sonner. Nouy., Guin., IN1;—Ps. ru/irgsiris, Enl, 580;— 
Ps. hematodus, Enl. 61, or cyanocephalus, Enl. 192, or moluccanus, Enl. 743, or 
cyanogaster, Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIL, pl. lix, and J. White, p. 140, all varieties of 
age. MM. Vigors and Horsfield having observed in this last certain sete under 
the tip of the tongue, erected it into a genus by the name of Tricnoetossvs. It 
would be a matter of some interest to.ascertain if many other Paroquets do not 
possess this same character. 
