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moveable, and the feet formed for climbing, with 

 a power also of bringing forward at pleasure one 

 of the hind toes. They are frugivorous and mono- 

 gamous, depositing their eggs, which are generally 

 two in number, in the holes of decayed trees. 

 Though generally observed in pairs, they some- 

 times assemble in vast flocks. 



The whole genus may be very properly divided, 

 according to the example of Linnasus, into the 

 Psittaci macrouri, or those which have more or 

 less long, cuneated, and pointed tails, and into 

 Psittaci hrachyuri^ or those which have more or 

 less short and even-feathered tails. These divisions 

 however are not to be understood as settled with 

 rigorous exactitude, it being hardly possible to 

 mark the precise limits of the two assortments. 



