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which the bill is less bulging, the tail very broad, 
and not so cuneiform as in the other species, and such 
would appear to be the New Guinea Broad-Tail 
[Plat. Novas Guinea, Wagler), in which the ophthal- 
mic region is naked, a character that may perhaps 
imply the propriety of further generic division. 
From the typical genus Platycercus, we now pass on 
to a group composed of birds of smaller dimensions, 
but eminent for their delicate form and pleasing 
plumage, and which have not inaptly been termed 
miniature analogues of the splendid Maccaws. In 
this lovely genus, the tail, in some species, as Nano- 
des venustus, and Nan. pulchellus, Vigors and Hors- 
field, retains to a considerable extent the breadth and 
depression of the Broadtails. In the N anodes dis- 
color, Vigors and Horsfield, as previously remarked, 
it in a great measure loses that character, and as- 
sumes the form, exhibited by the Ring-Parakeets or 
genus Palccornis, Vigors, the legs and feet as in 
Platycercus, are also slender and lengthened, and 
the claws but slightly hooked. This group forms 
the genus Nanodes of Vigors and Horsfield, or that 
of Euphemia, Wagler, distinguished by the follow- 
ing characters: — Bill short, higher than long, the 
upper mandible with the culmen rounded, and the 
tomia in the typical species without a distinct tooth 
or emargination, under mandible very short, inclining 
inwards, emarginate, with the apex broad, quadrate, 
and slightly sinuated. Palatial cutting membranes 
