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2. Traversia lyalli and [female]. From the type specimens in the Tring Museum.

3. Bowdleria rufescens. From a skin in the Tring Museum.

5A. Siphonorhis americanus. From skin in the British Museum.

6. 1. Nestor norfolcensis. From the plate in the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum.

2. Head of Nestor productus. From a specimen in the Tring Museum.

7. Lophopsittacus mauritianus. From ancient drawing and description.

8. Necropsittacus borbonicus. From a description.

9. Mascarinus mascarinus. From the drawing in the Volume commémoratif, Centenaire Mus. Paris.

10. Ara tricolor. From specimen in the Liverpool Museum. {xxviii}

11. Ara gossei. From Gosse's description.

12. Ara erythrocephala. From Gosse's description.

13. Anadorhynchus purpurascens. From description.

14. Ara martinicus. From description.

15. Ara erythrura. From description.

16. Conurus labati. From description.

17. Amazona violaceus. From description.

18. Amazona martinicana. From description.

19. Palaeornis exsul. From the plate in the "Ibis."

20. Palaeornis wardi. From the plate in the "Ibis."

21. Hemiphaga spadicea. From the specimen in the Tring Museum.

22. Alectroenas nitidissima. From the plate in the Volume commémoratif du Centenaire, Mus. Paris.

23. Pezophaps solitaria. Made up from descriptions and ancient drawings.

24. Didus cucullatus. From drawings.

24A. Didus cucullatus. See explanation, page 172.

24B. Didus cucullatus. See explanation, page 172.

24C. Didus cucullatus. See explanation, page 172.

25. Didus solitarius. From a picture supposed to be taken from a living specimen in Amsterdam, but beak and wing restored.

25A. Didus solitarius. After Dubois' description.

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