. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum . d; culmen of the bill grooved along the middle 1. Nestorids, p. 4. V. Tongue furnished with a kind of brush ; culmen of the bill smooth, not grooved along the middle .... 2. Loriidae, p. 13. h. Bill deeper than long, much swollen on the sides; under mandible with the gonys strongly curved and abruptly ascending towards the tip (see fig. 3, [p. 86. p, 3); tongue unrecorded 3. Cyclopsittacidae, II. Hook of the bill underneath with two lateral series of ridges, more or lesstransversal or oblique, producing a file-like surface (see figs. 4, 5, p. 3)
. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum . d; culmen of the bill grooved along the middle 1. Nestorids, p. 4. V. Tongue furnished with a kind of brush ; culmen of the bill smooth, not grooved along the middle .... 2. Loriidae, p. 13. h. Bill deeper than long, much swollen on the sides; under mandible with the gonys strongly curved and abruptly ascending towards the tip (see fig. 3, [p. 86. p, 3); tongue unrecorded 3. Cyclopsittacidae, II. Hook of the bill underneath with two lateral series of ridges, more or lesstransversal or oblique, producing a file-like surface (see figs. 4, 5, p. 3); tonguesimple,rt. Sternum complete, a. Orbital ring complete, with a process bridging the temporal fossa ; head • [p. 101. always crested 4. Cacatnidae, v. Orbital ring mostly incomplete ; if complete, without a process bridging the temporal fossa ; head without a crest, except in the genus Nym- [p. 137. phwns 5. Psittacidae, h. Sternum incomplete, having only a rudi- [p. 599. mejitary keel; orbital ring complete . 6. Stringopidae,
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