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Psittacula eupatria indoburmanica, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 



1931, p. 160 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 86 (Chiang Mai). 

 Psittacula eupatria subsp., de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1934, p. 259 (Chiang Mai, Mae Taeng). 

 Psittacula eupatria siamensis, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 118 



(Chorn Thong). 



This largest of our parrots is so far recorded only from the lowlands 

 of the Mae Ping basin, north to San Maha Phon (Mae Taeng) and 

 south to Ban Sop Mae Chaem, east to Khun Tan and west to the foot 

 of Doi Suthep; within this limited area I found it only irregularly 

 present at any one locality and rarely with as many as 10 individuals 

 in a flock. The species is frequently seen as a cage bird at Chiang 

 Mai, and, if its restricted distribution be real and not due merely to 

 lack of observers, I would suggest that its presence as a wild bird is 

 perhaps attributable to human agency. 



The rose-ringed parrot is found both in cultivated districts and in 

 the dry deciduous forest, but its appearances seem always to be gov- 

 erned by the abundance of some species or other of fruit. 



A specimen taken at Chiang Mai, December 5, had the testes greatly 

 enlarged (14 by 20 nun.). 



Adult males had the irides light yellow; the eyelids edged light 

 orange; the orbital skin pale pinkish orange; the maxilla deep red, 

 the mandible coral-red, both tipped horny yellow; the feet and toes 

 dull yellow; the claws slate. De Schauensee notes that a bird from 

 Chiang Mai had the feet gray. 



The adult male is largely parrot green ; it has the hindcrown more 

 or less washed with blue; the throat and upper breast more or less 

 washed with yellow ; a pink collar across the nape, joined at each end 

 to a narrow black line, which runs up the side of the throat to the base 

 of the mandible; a conspicuous red patch on the shoulder; all the 

 rectrices yellow beneath, the longer ones blue above on the apical two- 

 thirds. The adult female and the immature lack the pink nuchal 

 band and the black lines along the throat, and the latter has a much 

 shorter tail. 



Owing to the lack of suitable comparative material, I cannot say 

 whether our birds show any approach toward avensis of Burma. My 

 specimens seem to be inseparable from those of eastern Thailand, 

 when we allow for considerable individual variation. 



PSITTACULA ALEXANDRI FASCIATA (P. L. S. Muller) 



Indian Pink-breasted Parakeet 



Psittacus fasciatus P. L. S. Muixeb, Natursysteins Supplements- und Register- 

 Band, 1776, p. 74 (no locality given; Pondicherry designated as type locality 



