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1. Parrakeet Maccaws (perruches-aras), in which the cir- 

 cumference round the eye is naked. 



2. Parrakeets proper, with cheeks entirely feathered, tail 

 more or less long, but equally graduated and always shai*p. 



3. Arrow-tailed parrakeets (perruches a queue en fleche), 

 in which the two intermediate quills are much the longest. 



4. Parrakeets with broad tails, whose quills are not attenu- 

 ated towards the end, among which are arranged the greater 

 portion of the lories of Buffon. 



This arrangement of Le Vaillant has, as the reader may 

 have observed, been completely adopted by the Baron, with 

 the exception of its having two particular divisions for the 

 ara a trompe (grey cockatoo) of Latham ; genus microglos- 

 sum of Geoffrey ; and the long-legged parrakeet (perruches 

 aras) Le V. of which Illiger has made the type of his 

 genus pezoporus. 



The late M. Kuhl, who died in the island of Java, where 

 he formed some very valuable collections, has published a 

 monograph of this family, founded on very extensive obser- 

 vations, which he had ample opportunities of making, in the 

 various public museums of most of the chief towns of Europe, 

 and in the richest and most celebrated private cabinets. This 

 work is distinguished by its striking superiority over all that 

 has been hitherto published on the subject before us. Its 

 character is thus given by Mr. Vigors, in the paper from 

 which we have already done ourselves the pleasure of 

 quoting : — 



** In mentioning that work, I cannot allow myself to pass it 

 over with mere simple approbation. It has the merit of 

 being the first instance in which the principles, so successfully 

 developed in the 'Horse Entomologicae,' in reference to 

 some departments of the annulosa, were applied to a group 

 of the vertehrated animals ; and where the circular disposition 

 in which the groups of nature return into themselves, and the 



