OPOPSITTA. 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum , Vol. XX., pp. 88-89, Salvadori 
grouped together with the definition “ Feathers of the cheeks and ear-coverts 
very long and narrow ” salvadorii and edwardsi , and in another group, 
“ Feathers . . . not very long and narrow,” named desmaresti, occidentals, 
blythi and cervicalis. These two sections constitute my genus, and I note 
Ogilvie-Grant’s figure of his Cyclopsittacus godmani shows strongly developed 
facial ornamentation, yet Rothschild and Hartert ranked it as a subspecies only 
of blythi, which Salvadori regarded as an unadorned species. Consequently 
there does not seem any appreciable difference between the two sections. 
There is another group of very small birds with square tails which, 
however, must be regarded as a very distinct genus. In this group the cere 
is naked, the bill projecting, the face of the lower mandible three-ridged. 
The wing has the first three primaries practically equal, with the fourth very 
little less ; a wing-formula unlike either of the preceding. The tail is very 
short, almost hidden by the upper and under tail-coverts, the former slightly 
shorter, the latter equal ; it has the feathers broad, not pointed, and the 
tail is square, not wedge-shaped, and much less than half the length of 
the wing. I name as type Cyclopsitta suavissima Sclater, introducing for it 
the generic name 
Nannopsittacus. 
This includes the species gugliebni III., melanogenys and nigrifrons of the 
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