PSITTACID^. PSITTACIN.E. 
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sinuated in the middle : tertials very long. Tail 
short, longer than the wings, broad, with the tips 
rounded. America only. (Jig. 271.) 
Amazonicua. LeVail. pi. 84. 
Dufresnii. Ib. 91. 
pulverulentus. Ib. 92. 
ochropterus. Ib. 98. 
zanthocephalus. Ib.98.bis. 
sordidus. Ib. 104. 
signatus. Ib. 105. 
cyanotis. Ib. IOC. 
leucocephalus. Ib. 107. 
SGstivus. Le Vail. pi. 110. 
aiitumnalis. lb. 111. 
Havanensis. Ib. 122. 
fesiivus. Ib. 129. 
cyanocephalus. Ib. 135. 
columbinus. Spix, i. 37. 
Xatitbops. Ib. i. 26. 
inenstruus. Ib. 114. (aberrant.) 
And several new species. 
PsiTTACUs*, Linn. Wings lengthened, nearly as long as 
the tail. Face (typically) naked. Tail even ; the 
feathers rounded. The Old World. 
P. erythacus. LeVaill. pi. 99. 
Agapornis, Selhy. Size diminutive. Under mandible 
very thick. Wings long, hut shorter than the tail ; 
the three first quills equal and longest. Tail short, 
rounded; the feathers lanceolate, pointed. South 
America only. 
A. cyanopterus. PartS.No.US. Guianensis. Part 5. No.ll9. 
PoicEPHALUs, Sw. Wings very long, reaching to the 
end of the tail ; the first quill scarcely shorter than 
the second ; the inner web of the three first primaries 
suddenly narrowed beyond the middle, and then 
obliquely truncated at the tip. Tail very short, even ; 
the feathers broad, truncate, but the shafts prolonged 
into mucronate points. T ropics of the Old World 
only: representing PaUeorrtis. 
Senegaicnsis. LeVail. pi. 116. aureus. Le Vaill. pi. 138. 
Geoffi-oyi. lb. 112. Swinderianus. Lear. Psitt. 
melanoccphalus. Ib. 119. pk 
pileatus. Tb. 133. torquata. Ib. 40. 
Barrabaudi. Ib. 134. taranta. Ib. 39. 
* In this genus, which 1 think is the most typical of Ihe 
propose to retain, for tlie present, all those parrots ot the Old World, w 
will not arrange under the next group. 
