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Nearly allied to the geneva Trichoglossus and Lo- 
rius, in the form of the bill, the tongue, and feet, 
is another beautiful group inhabiting the islands of 
Australia, and characterized by Wagler, in his mo- 
nograph of the family, under the title of Coripkilus. 
They feed upon the softer fruits, particularly that of 
the Musa Paradisiaca, and lire amid the foliage 
of the highest palm-trees. The structure of the 
tongue in these birds is curious, according to the na- 
turalists who accompanied Duperney in his “ Voy- 
age aulour du Monde it is tipped 
by a kind of crown, formed by a 
number of long stiff filaments, re- 
gularly placed, and which M. de 
Blainville considers as the nervous 
elongations or papillte of the lingual 
or gustatory branch, enormously developed. Their 
voice is weak and sibilous ; and, when alarmed or 
irritated, they erect the feathers of the hind-head, 
which are narrow and elongated. The sexes are re- 
markable for their affection to each other, and direct 
all their movements in concert. The characters of 
the genus are : — Bill small, the upper mandible with- 
out a distinct tooth, the cere large and prominent, 
the under mandible weak, slightly convex. Nostrils 
open, round, in the basal cere. Tongue papillose 
near the tip. Head crested. Wings long and 
