General Remarks, 8?c. 



For the Character of the feet in the Parrot we refer 

 our reader to the foregoing account of the Toucan, the/ 

 being exactly the same in all respects. 



The Parroquettes seem on the other hand always to 

 have a cheek and face covered, and are in some instances 

 crested with tufts, spread like the larger Parrots, but the 

 best division of these in(o sub-genera, would perhaps be 

 from the form of the tail, which is a more sure test than the 

 colour of the body or wings, which frequently vary in the 

 male and female. The colours in the crest of the Hawk 

 Parrot exhibit all the richest tints of the rainbow, and the 

 bill is singularly marked with a hollow channel in the front, 

 and ending square at the bottom. 



The Papuan Lory is distinguished by the great length 

 of the tail, its sharp bill ending in a. crooked point, seem 

 strongly to distinguish it from the rest of its congeners, and 

 to assimilate it in some to the elegant birds of Paradise. 

 The eyes of many of these birds seem to project for- 

 ward, and by this means to loose that natural projection, 

 which a hollow cavity would have improved, as in the 

 human head, where the eyes is quarcd by a projection 

 of the forehead and temples, but in these birds the de- 

 ficiency (if so it may be called) is amply supplied by 

 the nistitating membrane, which a protecting skin or 

 membrane, with which the eyes is immediately covered 

 over on any approach of danger, and at other times 

 seems to lubricate and moisten the surface, as often as 

 is necessary. We cannot help remarking in this the 

 singular bill of the Jabiru, the lower mandible being 

 turned upwards, something in the manner of the Avoset 

 and a few other curious species, equally curious in that 

 of the spoonbill, which terminates in an incrcaved breadth 

 at the tip or extremity of the bill. 



The Rhynchops Nigra is also a singular bird, of 

 the size of twelve inches, found on the shoals of the Islands 



