Genus— G EOFFROYUS. 
Geoeforyus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. 
XXX., p. 137, 1850 Type G. geoffroyi. 
Also spelt — 
Geoffroys Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. Aves, p. 161, 1846, Nom. mid. 
Geoifroy Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 88, 1855. 
Rhodocephalus Reichenow, Journ. fur Ornitk., 1881, 
p « 1.^7 •• • • •• •• • o « • •• e G. geoffroyi. 
Pseudopsittacus Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XXII., p. 105, 
1913 Type G. geoffroyi. 
Small Loriine birds with very projecting bill, long wings, long tails and small 
feet. 
The bill has the upper mandible strongly projecting, the tip long and 
sharp, the under edges sinuate, but with no marked gap. The under mandible 
is short and deeper than that of the preceding genus but similarly formed. 
The cere is naked and prominent with the circular nostrils high up placed close 
together on each side of the culmen ridge. The lores are feathered and there 
is no bare eye space. 
The wings are long with the second primary longest, the first and third 
subequal and not much shorter. The tail is nearly half the length of the wing 
and wedge-shaped, the feathers not very broad and pointed. The feet are 
small and normal. 
The whole facies of the bird recalls Glossopsitta , and I may note that the 
species of Glossopsitta were once recorded under the species name of the type 
of this genus by such an ornithologist as Lesson. 
The reference here given is the earliest published, as the one given in the 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XX., p. 399 ( Consp . Av., I., 
p. 6) was later in date though probably written earlier, I have collated this 
work so here give details. The Consp. Gen. Av., Vol I., is generally quoted 
as 1850, but it did not appear until the very end of that year or perhaps 
early in 1851. The sheets are mostly dated, but these are not dates of publica- 
tion but of the preparation of the Manuscript. It was published in one item. 
The title page bears the date 1850 : the dedication “ Kalendis April MDCCCL.” 
Sheets 1-12 are undated, but Sheet 13 has the signature “ 1849 ” which is at 
once nullified by the note on its first page (p. 97) “ quas mihi benigne 1850 
manuscript© communicavit,” Sheets 14-18 are signatured “ Jan., 1850,” 
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