PARROTLETS. 
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Nearly allied to this species are several South American parrots constituting 
the genus Bolborhynchus, distinguished from the one under consideration by the 
nostrils being exposed and opening in a much swollen cere, from which the name 
of the genus is derived. These parrots range from Mexico to Northern Chili 
and the Argentine, a well-known species being the Aymara parraquet ( B. aymara). 
GREY-BREASTED PARRAQUET (f lUlt. size). 
The smallest representatives of this subfamily are the pretty 
little green and blue birds, which may be termed, from their Latin 
name, parrotlets, and occupy a position in this section analogous to that held by 
the love-birds in the parraquet group. The largest of these parrotlets is only 5 b 
inches in length, while none of the others exceed 5 inches. They differ from all 
the other members of the subfamily in the relative shortness of their tails, and 
also in that the two sexes are unlike, while their skeletons are distinguished by 
the absence of the furcula. They range from Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, and 
are divided into three groups, according to the colour of the rump in the male. In 
