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Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ually foundin open spaces in the forests, where it associates in small flocks. When feeding, itkeeps up a continual chirping cry; and it is said, like the fruit-bats, to be at timestaken in a stupefied condition, Ijnng beneath the pots suspended to catch palm-juice. They appear to pass a large portion of their time in sleep; but when awakeexhibit marvellous activity in climbing. From the nature of their food, theselittle parrots are not well adapted for captivity, although they can be kept on adiet of rice boiled in milk and well sweetened, with the addition of fruit and 132 PARROTS. ants ^^^^^. Mr. Greene says that if several are kept in a cage, the^^ will hangsuspended side by side from the roof for hours at a time, in which position theywall caress and feed one another. The Broadtail Group. Subfamily PLATYCERCixiE. The last subfamily of the Psittacidcu is represented by the broadtails, grass-parraquets, and their allies, and is entirely confined to Australia, New Zealand. .41/Vf///
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ROSE HILL BROADTAIL (f liat. size) New Caledonia, and tlie Society Islands. They are distinguished from all thepreceding groups, with the exception of the parrotlets and love-birds, by theabsence of the f urcula; ^ while in the skull the ring round the eye is incomplete.The tail is rather long, graduated, and often pointed; and the beak of moderatesize, and never red in colour. The cere is small, merely surrounding tlie nostrils:the beak short and thick, with the lower mandible generally concealed by thefeathers of the cheeks; and the plumage much variegated. 1 The single species of Nmmodes is an exception in this respect, while it also differs from all otlier Psittacidccin its brush-like tongue. PARRAQUETS. 133 „ ^, ., The broadtails, of which the best Ivuown example is the Rose Broadtails. Ty-n i i -i t> n Hill broadtail, or Kosella parraquet (Platycercus exiniius), take their name from the breadth of the tail-feathers, which are not acuminate. The bill isdistinctly notched; an

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