GENUS PSITTACUS. 
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account they are held in high estimation, and fre- 
quently kept caged. They are nearly related to 
Wagler's genera Psittacodis and Eclectus, the latter 
of which appears to lead to the larger Indian Lories ; 
but of these genera, and that of Pionus, another 
group, of which Psittacus menstruus, Auct., is the 
type, our limits do not permit us to give illustrative 
figures. The subject of the next Plate is the 
