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satisfaction and pleasure, its screams, and hoarse dis- 
cordant tones, rendering it any thing but an agree- 
able companion when confined within the precincts 
of a private house. Our figure is from a living bird 
in the gardens of the Zoological Society. 
Immediately following the Maccaws, and nearly 
related to them by the strength and thickness of the 
bill, and the naked skin which still occupies the or- 
bits, and more or less of the face, is a group to 
which we would restrict the title of Psittacara, Vi- 
gors, typified by his Psittacara Jrontata, but not 
embracing all the birds which he included in it, se- 
veral of them having their station among the Araras , 
or that group to which the Patagonian species be- 
longs. The genus Psittacara is distinguished by 
a large, deep, and massive bill, the upper man- 
dible with the culmen imperfectly biangulated, the 
tip drawn suddenly to a fine sharp point, the to- 
mia sinuated, or imperfectly toothed, the under 
mandible very large and thick, the tip quadrate, 
the orbits, and space between the bill and eyes, 
to a greater or less extent naked. Nostrils round, 
patent, in the cere at the base of the bill. Wings 
rather long, acuminate, the three first feathers of 
nearly equal length, wide at the base, narrow- 
ing suddenly toward their tips. Tail rather long, 
and moderately graduated. The passage from the 
Maccaw to the Parrot division, appeal’s in one point 
to be effected by the apparent connection that sub- 
