Genus— G L 0 S S 0 P S I TT A. 
Glossopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool., Vol. VI., 
p. 157, 1854 Type G. concinna. 
Also spelt — 
Glossopsittactis Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., p. 71, 1872. 
Glossoptilus (errore) Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. III., p. 532, 1896. 
Centrourus Gray, List Genera Birds, 1840, p. 51 . . . . Type G. concinna. 
(Not of Swainson 1837.) 
Smallest Triehoglossine birds with small bills, long wings, medium tails, and 
small legs and feet. 
The bill is small, somewhat projecting, rather narrow, the tip followed 
by a notch, which, however, is not so marked as in the preceding genera : 
the cere is small and naked, the feathers approaching a little between the 
nostrils, which are circular holes. 
The wing is long with the first primary slightly the longest, but the first 
three are almost sub equal. 
The tail is wedge-shaped, more than half the length of the wing : the 
central feathers pointed, but not attenuate, the laterals rounded. 
The legs and feet are small and normal. 
Three species are included in this genus, the type being larger than the 
other two. For the last two I propose the new subgeneric name 
Parvipsitta, 
naming Psittacus pusillus White as type. They differ in their smaller size, 
their smaller and narrower bill more projecting, with longer tip and ^obsolete 
notch after tip, their proportionately shorter tail and smaller legs and feet. 
It is possible that internal differences may be observed, as in the case of 
Lathamus to be hereafter noticed. As a small item I have noticed that the 
typical species is recorded as laying two eggs only, while the smaller species 
fay four or five eggs. 
In the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum , Vol. NX., Salvadori 
introduced a genus Hypocharmosyna with the diagnosis : “ Tail feathers 
green, with the tips yellow or red.” 
The small species I have above indicated approach this genus in the 
formation of the bill, and some of its members agree closely in coloration. 
The tail in Hypocharmosyna is a little longer, but otherwise there seems 
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