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CATALOGUE. 
Psittacus (Aratinga) Byroni, Children^ Gray's Zool. 
Misc. p. 12 (1832). 
Cyanoliseus patagonus, Bonap., Hev. Zool. (1854), p. 150. 
A. S. America. Donor unknown. 
Summary view of the distribution of the Psittacid-E in India and 
the neighbouring countries. By E. Bltth. — " From the foregoing 
catalogue it follows that only two generic forms of JPsittacidce inhabit 
India, viz. Palceornis and Loriculus ; nor are we aware that another 
occurs in all continental Asia, with the exception of Tanygnathus 
[Psittinus], as exemplified by T. malaccensis in the Malayan penin- 
sula ; this species being, however, barely separable from Falceornis, 
and the peninsula itself belonging physically to the region of the 
archipelago, or Indonesia^ as this region has been recently designated 
by Mr. Logan. Tanygnathus [Psittinus] should accordingly be re- 
garded as strictly an Indonesian form. In the Asiatic countries 
westward of Scinde, it does not appear that any species of Parrot has 
been observed ; and we know but little of those of Indo-China east- 
ward of the British possessions on that side of the Bay of Bengal, or 
those of the southernmost provinces of China. In the great Indo- 
nesian or Austral- Asian archipelago, the number of genera and of 
super-generic forms gradually increases to the eastward, where the 
Lories and species of White Cockatoo, also the two species of Eclectus 
{E. poly chlorus and grandis), among the FsittacincB, and the large 
Tanygnathi, are met with in Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and some 
of them even in the Philippines ; forms of Black Cockatoo appearing 
likewise in the Papuan group ; while in Australia the Fsittacidce 
attain their maximum of development as regards the number of 
genera and of species, though the two generic forms of India, and 
certain others of Indonesia, are foreign to the Australian Pauna. 
Sumatra and Java contain the Tanygnathus perhaps as a rarity, but 
no Cockatoo, nor Eclectus ; and the only Lory, if any, is Eos ornata^ 
which Sir Stamford Baffles reported by mistake (?) to inhabit the 
Malayan peninsula. 
With regard to the distribution of species in India and the neigh- 
bouring countries, we first remark three of Palceornis {Alexandria 
torquatus, and cyanocephalus) as common — with unimportant local 
exceptions — to all India, from the sub-Himalayan regions to Ceylon 
inclusive, and also to the eastward, in Assam, Arracac, the Tenasserim 
provinces ; and P. torqiuitus as far southward as Penang. Others 
are much more local, as P. Calthrapce, Layard, which is confined to 
