506 CLASS AVES. ^ 



New Zealand Parrot. P. Nova. Zelandia, Lath. 

 Mus. Carl. 28. 



Green ; paler, beneath ; top of head and vent, crimson. 

 New Zealand. 



Horned Parrot. P. Cornutus. Lath. Syn. Sup. 

 III. pi. 8. 



Head and cheeks scarlet, with two feathers, one inch 

 and a half long, rising like horns from the head. 

 Body in general green, yellow about rump and vent. 

 New Caledonia. 



There are two African birds usually placed among 

 the Scansores nearly allied to one another, which 

 appear to me to have also some analogy with the 

 gallinaceous birds, and especially the genus Crcuv. 



They have the wings and tail of Crax, and remain 

 like them in trees ; their bill is short, and the upper 

 mandible swelled out ; their feet have a short mem- 

 brane between the toes in the fore part, but it is 

 true that the external toe is frequently directed 

 backward, like that of the owl's. Their nostrils are 

 also simply pierced in the horn of the bill. The 

 edges of the mandibles are indented, and the sternum, 

 at least in the Touraco, has not the great slopes 

 common in the gallinaceous birds. 



These birds, of which two genera have been made, 

 are — 



