FAM. CYCLOPSITTACIDA 
BY T. SALVADORI 
HIS family was established by me in the Catalogue of the Psittaci (1891) (Introd. 
p- vill). I there wrote as follows : « A peculiar feature in my classification is the 
establishment of the family Cyclopsittacide. The under surface of the hook of the 
bill without file-like sculpture in the species of the genera Neopsittacus and Cyclo- 
psittacus separates them from all the other Psittaci proprit and approaches them to the Psittaci 
orthognati; when the structure of their tongue is known we shall be able to 

ie understand better their true affinities. » 

Characters. Bill moderately or much swollen on the sides; upper 
mandible notched, without transverse ridges on the under surface of the hook; 
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lower mandible with the gonys upright and flattened in front; cere naked round 
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the exposed nostrils, or feathered and nostrils hidden; tongue not known; tail 
« moderate and gratuated, or short and cuneate, or rounded. 
Habits. We only know that these small Parrots live on fruits, especially 
of a kind of fig (Wallace, von Rosenberg, DA lbertis). 
Range. Austro-Malayan Subregion. 
Bibliography. Salvadori, Cat. of the Psvttaci in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 20, p. 86-100 
(1891); Hartert, On some Species of the genera Cyclopsitta and Ptilinopus (Novit. Zool. Vol. 6, 
p. 219, pl. 4) (1899); Rothschild & Hartert (the genus Cyclopsitta), op. cit. Vol. 8, p. 72-77 (1901); 
Salvadori, Notes on the Parrots (part 2), Ibis, 1905, p. 535-542. 
Only two genera are known. 
