TRICHOGLOSSUS CONCINNUS, Vigors $ Horsfield. 



Crimson-fronted Parakeet. 



PLATE XXXIV. 



T. viridis ; fronte, tenia post oculari descendente, rectricumque basi intus coccineis ; 

 occipite coendescente, macula laterali subtus flava ; nucha inter scapulioque oli- 

 vaceis. 



Trichoglossus concinnus, Vig. § Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 292. 



Psittacus concinnus, Kuhl, Nova Acta Phys. Med. Acad. Caesar. Leopold. Carol. Nat. Cur. 



vol. x. p. 46. 

 Crimson-fronted Parakeet, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. ii. p. 181. 



J_ he Parrots, Psittaci, or that extensive family constituted by the birds 

 known under the names of Maccaws, Cockatoos, Parrots, Parakeets, and 

 Lories, have lately been formed into separate and distinct genera, and af- 

 ford perhaps one of the best examples of the necessity of subdividing large 

 groups. About the commencement of that late era of natural history, 

 when some ornithologists, more impressed than others with the import- 

 ance of subdividing these extensive families, by some determinate appella- 

 tion applied to the respective divisions, the number of known species 

 amounted to above 200, and since that period considerable numbers have 

 been discovered. The labour of making out an unknown bird among the 

 host of species, or of determining whether or not it was described, was 

 very considerable ; and the great difference of the external characters, with 

 the variation in the habits of some decided groups, induced ornithologists 

 at times to undertake their division. 



The group to which our present species belongs affords an example of 

 one of these, presenting very distinct external characters, differing widely 

 in the kind of food by which it is nourished, and in the formation of the 

 organs adapted for collecting it. In our next, or in a very early Number, 

 along with the history of this genus, we intend to give a representation of 

 the tongue of a species belonging to it, and to describe minutely its tubu- 

 lar structure, by which the birds forming it are enabled to live almost en- 



