Though the name lory has often been used for the species of _Eclectus_, and some other genera related thereto, modern writers would restrict its application to the birds of the genera _Lorius_, _Eos_, _Chalcopsittacus_ and their near allies, which are often placed in a subfamily, _Loriinae_, belonging to the so-called family of _Trichoglossidae_ or "brush-tongued" parrots. Garrod in his investigations on the anatomy of _Psittaci_ was led not to attach much importance to the structure indicated by the epithet "brush-tongued" stating (_Proc. Zool. Society_, 1874, p. 597) that it "is only an excessive development of the papillae which are always found on the lingual surface." The birds of this group are very characteristic of the New Guinea subregion,[1] in which occur, according to Count Salvadori, ten species of _Lorius_, eight of _Eos_ and four of _Chalcopsittacus_; but none seem here to require any further notice,[2] though among them, and particularly in the genus _Eos_, are included some of the most richly-coloured birds in the whole world; nor does it appear that more need be said of the lorikeets. The family is the subject of an excellent monograph by St George Mivart (London, 1896). (A. N.) FOOTNOTES: [1] They extend, however, to Fiji, Tahiti and Fanning Island. [2] Unless it be _Oreopsittacus arfaki_, of New Guinea, remarkable as the only parrot known as yet to have fourteen instead of twelve rectrices. LOS ANDES, a former state of Venezuela under the redivision of 1881, which covered the extreme western part of the republic N. of Zamora and S. of Zulia. In the redivision of 1904 Los Andes was cut up into three states--Mérida Táchira and Trujillo.