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chin and throat yellow, the latter banded on the 

 breast by a broad scarlet band : general colour of the 

 rest of the plumage green : thighs mixed deep red 

 and green : tail cuneiform ; the two middle feathers 

 nine inches long, the outer ones only four : quills 

 deep green, with bluish edges : shafts of the quills 

 and tail nearly black, under part of the latter chiefly 

 dusky black : the wings reach to above half way on 

 the tail : legs black. 



B, Mandibuld injeriora elongatd. 



B. With the lower mandible elongated. 



S{). 11. Pa. Papuensis. Zool. Journ. (Vigors.) v. in. p. 56. — 

 Psittacus Papuensis. Shmu, v. viii. p. 440. ^j/, 64. — New Gui- 

 nea, or Papua. 



GENUS CCXVII — TRICHOGLOSSUS, Vigors. 



Rostrum subcrassum, man- 

 dibula superior arcuata, 

 inferior subelongata. 



Lingua apice setosa. 



Alee mediocres. 



Pedes breves; tarsi medio- 

 cres. 



Cauda subbrevis. 



Beak rather stout ; the upper 

 mandible avcuate, the lower 

 rather elongated. 



Tongue bristly at the tip. 



Wings moderate. 



Legs short ; tarsi moderate. 



Tail somewhat short. 



The Trichoglossi appear to belong to the old world. 

 New Holland, and the Pacific Islands. 



Sp. 1 . Tr. haematopus. 



Psittacus haematopus. Grnel. Syst. Nat. I. p. 357. — Psittacus 

 cyanogaster. Shaw, v. viii.;?. 413. — Molucca Islands. 



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