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PSITTACID.E. 



OxLY one species has been discovered of this 

 iXenus, wliich lives cliiefly upon tlie ground, and 

 procures its food among the herbs. 



Sp. 1. Pe. foriuosus. Illigcr. 



Psittacus tcrrestris. Shaiv, v. viii. p. 4.54. pi. 66. 



GEXUS CCXVI.— PAL-^ORMS, Vigors. 



Rostrum subcrassum : rtinn- 

 d'lhida superior dilatnta, 

 culniine rotundo, iiifcr'ior 

 lata, brevis, emarginata. 



Ahc racdiocres, remigibus 

 tribus extimis fere a-quali- 

 bus, longissirais ; secundae, 

 tertije, et quart^e pogoniis 

 externis in medio gradatim 

 latioribus. 



Cauda gradata : rectricibus 

 duabus mediis gracillimis 

 ca?teras lonsitudine mas- 

 nopere excedentibus. 



Pedes ; tarsi brevibus, de- 

 bilibus ; unguibus medi- 

 ocribus, subgracilibus, fal- 

 catis. 



Corpus gracile, concinniis. 



Beal: rather thick : tlie upper 

 mandible -with its top 

 rounded, the loiccr broad, 

 short, cmai'ginated. 



Wings moderate, with the 

 three outer quills nearly 

 equal and longest ; the 

 second, thh-d, and fourth 

 with the outer web ffra- 

 dually broader in the 

 middle. 



Tail gradated : the two 

 middle feathers very slen- 

 der and greatly exceeding 

 the rest in length. 



Legs with short tarsi, ^veak, 

 the claws moderate, rather 

 slender, hooked. 



Body slender, beautiful. 



A. Mandibida injeriore brevi. 



A. With the lower maudible short. 



Sp. 1. Pa. Alexandri. Zool. Journ. {Vigors.) v. ii. |?. 49. 



Psittacus Alexaudri. Shaxv, v. viii. p. 423. pi. 61. var. (3. 

 Psittacus Eupatria. Shatv, v. viii. jo. 438. — Ceylon. 



