408 ncn.MA, ITS PEOPLE AM) I'RODUCTIOXS. 



Davisou shot oue of tbeso birds witli a ilt(lj;linc; Mcgulaima iu its claws, being 

 attracted by the outcry raised by the pai'cnt of tlie siili'erer. 



Nixox niRSUTCS, Tern. Nicobars. 



i\*. scutellatus, llatil. Arakan (Tenasserim). 



Khin-bok. 



X. AFFiNis, Tytler. Andamaus. iS^icobars. 



Nearly affined to scutellatus, Eaffl., according to Hume. 

 N. BcEiiANicA, Hume. 



Under the last-named species, aV. scufeUaliis, Blyth would seem to have ranged 

 the Tenasserim race, which has been since separated by Hume. If Hume's species 

 is rightly separated, it is probable that both meet in Arakan. 



N. OBSCL'RUS, Hume. Andamaus. Nicobars. 



Older rSlTT.VCI. 



The Parrots have the uppei- jaw articulated with the frontal bones by a complete 

 hingc-jnint. In the fatal parrakeet the margins of the bill are beset with tubercles, 

 under each of which is a gelatinous pulp like that of a tooth (Pascoe). This is 

 a remarkable indication of relationship to tliose extinct orders of birds whose bills 

 were furnished with teeth. The bill is used as a prehensile organ in climbing, and 

 the feet as hands for grasping and conveying anything to the mouth. I'arrots are 

 monogamous, and breed in holes of trees and bauks, laying several white blunt eggs. 

 The order embraces one family only. 



Fiimihi Psittacidse. 



This family is subdivided into Psittucina, or true Parrots ; Loriina, or Lories ; 

 Palmornince, or Parrakeets; PhitycercintB, or Australian Parrakeets ; Arniiim, or 

 Macaws ; Cucattiina and Kcstorina, the Cockatoos and Dusky Cockatoos of Australia ; 

 and the Strigojiinm, represented by a single species, the New Zealand Strigo^n, an 

 owl-like bird of nocturnal habits. 



Paljeoenis EOPATOErcs, L. Pegu. Tenasserim. Andamans. 



P. magnirodris, Ball. 



The Andaman bird has been separated by Mr. Ball for tlio largeness of its bill, 

 and Mr. Hume considers the Tenasserim race as identical, though not quite the size 

 of typical magnirostris. Blyth remarks that this species in Burma is confined to 

 the higher hUls, but this seems doubtful. 



P. ERTTHROfiENi's, Blyth. Audamaus. Nicobars. 



P. Nicoharicns, Gould. 

 P. canirejix, Blyth (monente auctore). 

 P. ajfinis, Tytler. 

 P. Tytleri, Hume. 



Davison observes: "It is curious that the bills of all the young of those two 

 species (P. erythrogmy» and P. ajfinis) that I examined were cjuite red, both upper 

 and lower mandibles. The adult females always have the bills black, i must have 

 seen during my stay at the Andamans and Nicobars at least thirty young birds of 

 these species, of all sizes, in tlu'ir nests, with convicts, or in Nicobarcse huts, and 

 yet I never faw a young one, that could not tly, that had a black upper or lower 

 mandible" (S.F. ii. p. 184). 



P. TORQUATUs, Bodd. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



A bird of the open country. 



P. cyANOCEPn.iLus, L. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



A forest species, replacing iu Burma P. rona, Bodd., of India and Ceylon (Blyth), 



