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probability. A series of late July from Wiang Pa Pao includes a 

 number of fully adult birds that are molting from worn to fresh 

 plumage. 



De Schauensee notes that a male had the irides creamy yellow ; the 

 maxilla sealing-wax red, tipped yellow; the mandible blotchy dusky 

 red ; the feet and toes olive. The female differed in having the entire 

 bill black. In museum specimens the mandible of the male usually 

 appears blackish. The juvenile has the entire bill reddish orange. 



The adult male has a narrow black frontal band reaching to the 

 eyes ; a broad black mustachial band from each side of the mandible ; 

 the rest of the head gray-violet; the remaining upperparts parrot 

 green, becoming bright blue on the rectrices; a conspicuous golden- 

 greenish area on the wing coverts, sometimes tinged with orange ; the 

 breast and upper abdomen pink, more or less washed with violet, 

 changing to blue-green on the lower belly and to bright yellow-green 

 elsewhere. The adult female differs chiefly in having the head gray- 

 blue and the underparts of a rather deeper pink without violet wash. 

 The juvenile is a generally green bird with the markings of the head 

 dull brownish black. 



PSITTACULA CYANOCEPHALA ROSA (Boddaert) 



Indo-Chinese Blossom-headed Parakeet 



Psittacus rosa Boddaert, Table des planches enlumin£ez d'histoire naturelle, 

 • 1783, p. 53 (Mah6, ex D'Aubenton, pi. 888, error; Chittagong designated as 



type locality by Whistler and Kinnear, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 



37, 1935, p. 753). 

 Palaeornis rosa, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, p. 60 



(Den Chai, Pak Pan) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siani, 1915, p. 233 (listed). 

 Palaeornis cyanoeeplialus rosa, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 



1916, p. 118 (Pha Kho) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 592 (Den Chai, Pak Pan, Pha Kho). 

 Psittacula cyanocephala rosa, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 



p. 160 (Chiang Mai, error?) ; 1936, p. 86 (Chiang Mai, error?). 



In 1931 and 1936 I recorded the occurrence of this parrot at Chiang 

 Mai; since no specimen was taken and since I was at that time un- 

 familiar with the bird in life and since, moreover, it is a species not 

 yet definitely known in our area from any locality west of the Khun 

 Tan range, it seems best to withdraw the record until there is further 

 evidence of its presence there. To the places where examples have 

 been collected may be added Khun Tan, whence Eisenhofer sent to 

 Stockholm six undated birds, including a juvenile, and Ban Mae Mo, 

 where I took an adult male, August 18, 1936. 



Gyldenstolpe found this species fairly common in the dry, deciduous 

 forests of Phrae Province, but never in large flocks and usually 

 associated with the pink-breasted parrot. 



The adult male of this small species has the head rose-pink, strongly 

 washed with violet-blue on crown and nape; a pair of black mus- 



