LORIN.E. 
ECLECTUS.* 
Bill large, strong, much higher than broad, with the cuhnen arched and compressed, and the sides 
sloping to the lateral margins which are dentated, the under mandible rather compressed, the gonys 
curved upwards, broad, and keeled in the middle, and the lateral margins sinuated ; the nostrils basal, 
small, and covered by the plumes. Wings long and pointed. Tail moderate, nearly equal, and broad 
at the end. Tarsi very short, stout, and rather depressed. Toes unequal and long, with the two outer 
ones equal in length, and all covered with small scales, and the tips with transverse scales. 
These birds are found in nearly aU the islands of the Indian Archipelago, from Sumatra to the Moluccas, and 
New Guinea. 
1. E. Linnaei Wagl. Monogr. Psitt. (t. xxii. ?) 
2. E. ceylonensis (Bodd.) Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 6. — Psittacus 
grandis Gmel PL enl. 683., Le Vaill. Perr. t. 126, 127, 128, ; Psit- 
tacus janthinus Gmel. ; P. guebieiisis var. Lath. 
3. E. paragua (Gmel.) — Psittacus Stavorini Zm.; Type of 
Psittacodls Wagl. (1830). 
4. E, polychloros (Scop.) Edwards's Birds, t. 231., PI. enl, 514. 
— Psittacus magnus et P. sinensis Gmel. ; P. viridis Lath. Le Vaill. 
Perr. t. 1S2. ; P. lateralis Shaw ; Wuscarinus prasinus Less. 
5. E. sumatranus (Raf&.) Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 281. 
6. E. gramineus (Gmel.) PL enl. 862., Le Vaill, Perr. t. 121. 
7. E. tarabe (Gmel,). 
Wagler established this genus in 1830 {Abhandl. Akad. Munchen, 1832, p. 495,), I include in it Psittacodis of the same author. 
October, 1845. 
