LORINiE. 
Eclectus.* 
Bill large, strong, much higher than broad, with the culmen arched and compressed, and the sides 
sloping to the lateral margins which are dentated, the under mandible rather compressed, the gonys 
curved upwards, broad, and keeled in the middle, and the lateral margins sinuated ; the nostrils basal, 
small, and covered by the plumes. Wings long and pointed. Tail moderate, nearly equal, and broad 
at the end. Tarsi very short, stout, and rather depressed. Toes unequal and long, with the two outer 
ones equal in length, and all covered with small scales, and the tips with transverse scales. 
These birds are found in nearly all the islands of the 
hiew Guinea. 
!• E. Linncei Wagl. Monogr. Psitt. (t. xxii. ?) 
2. E. ceylonensis (Bodd.) Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 6. Psittacus 
grandis Gmel. PI. enl. 683., Le Vaill. Perr. 1. 126, 127, 128. ; Psit- 
tacus janthinus Gmel . ; P. guebiensis var. Lath. 
3. E. paragua (Gmel.) — Psittacus Stavorini Less.; Type of 
Psittacodis Wagl. (1830). 
Indian Archipelago, from Sumatra to the Moluccas, and 
4. E. polychloros (Scop.) Edwards’s Birds, t. 231., PI. enl. 514. 
Psittacus magnus et P. sinensis Gmel. ; P. viridis Lath. Le Vaill. 
Perr. t. 132. ; P. lateralis Shaw ; Muscarinus prasinus Less. 
5. E. sumatvauus (Baffl.) Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 281. 
6. E. gramineus (Gmel.) PI. enl. 862., Le Vaill. Perr, t. 121. 
7. E. tarabe (Gmel.). 
* tVagler established this genus in 1830 (Abhandl. Akad. Miinchen, 1832, p. 495.). 
I include in it Psittacodis of the same author. 
October, 1845. 
