LE VALLANT’s PIONUS. 
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consisting in the want of the tooth or angular pro- 
cess on the upper mandible. The members belong- 
ing to it are also natives of Asia and Australasia, and 
the Psitt. magnus, Psitt. Paragua, Psitt. Sumalra- 
nus, and Psitt. tarabe, Auct., belong to it. A third 
group is that of Pionus, which embraces a variety 
of species belonging to Asia, Africa, and America, 
and which, judging from the difference of geographic 
cal distribution, it is likely may require still further 
division. In the form of the tongue and feet, it 
agrees with the genus Psittacus proper, but the tail 
is comparatively shorter, the wings longer, and, when 
closed, in many species extending beyond the tip of 
the tail. The head is large, and the body short and 
thick. An example of this group is 
LE VAILLANT’S PIONUS. 
Pionus Le Vaillnntii Wagleb. 
Pionus Le Vaillantii, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. in Abhand. &c. 
pp. 499, 614— Psittacus robustus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 94. 
— Psittacus Le Vaillantii, Lath.- Sup. ; Kuhl , Consp. 
Psitt. p. 03 — Psittacus infuscatus, Shaw's ZoolMix. p. 523. 
— Peroquet a franges souci, Le Vaill. Tab. 130 et 131.— 
Robust Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. pp. 296, 100. — Damask Par- 
rot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 523. 
This is an African species, inhabiting, at a certain 
period, the eastern parts of that continent, as high 
