. The royal natural history. PHILLIP ISLAND 96 PARROTS. The Lories and HEAD AND TONGUE OF LORY. (From Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872.) Although agreeing with the nestors in the general structure of their beaks, thebeautiful birds known as lories and loriquets, of which there are several genera,differ by the tongue being furnished with a kind of brush instead of a fringe, andalso by the middle of the upper mandible being devoid of a groove. The beak, which is much compressed andgenerally longer than deep, hasno notch ; and the cere decreasesin width from the
. The royal natural history. PHILLIP ISLAND 96 PARROTS. The Lories and HEAD AND TONGUE OF LORY. (From Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872.) Although agreeing with the nestors in the general structure of their beaks, thebeautiful birds known as lories and loriquets, of which there are several genera,differ by the tongue being furnished with a kind of brush instead of a fringe, andalso by the middle of the upper mandible being devoid of a groove. The beak, which is much compressed andgenerally longer than deep, hasno notch ; and the cere decreasesin width from the middle line ofthe head to the sides of thebeak. There is great variationin the length of the tail, but it isgenerally shorter, althoughoccasionally longer than thewing; while in form it may beeither graduated or wings are sharply pointed(acute), and generally have thefirst three feathers the unrepresented in New Zealand, the members of the family are confinedto the Australasian region, inclusive of Polynesia. They comprise upwards offourteen genera, of which only a few can
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