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This form ranges from Assam to Burma, Yimnan, Laos, Annam,, 

 and northern Siam and south to Tenasserim. It is a mountain form 

 and has so far been taken in the northern mountain districts only, 

 where it is not uncommon, according to de Schauensee.^* 



PSITTACULA ALEXANDRI FASCIATA (Miiller) 



Psittacus fasciatus Muller, Natursystem, SuppL, p. 74, 1776 (Pondicherry). 



Three females, Doi Angka (lower slopes), December 9, 1928; six: 

 males and three females. Ban Nam Kien, Nan, April 18-23, 1930; 

 one male, Mekhan, February 1, 1932; one female, Sobpung, December 



21, 1932; two males and one female, Bangkok, March 4 and October 



22, 1924, October 28, 1925; three males and two females. Bung Bora- 

 pet, June 21-29, 1932; two males, Lomkao, February 20, 21, 1934; 

 one male, Wang luen, Kanburi, March 12, 1934; two males and four 

 females, Muang Kanburi, April 9-12, 1928, September 24, 1929; three 

 males and two females, Pak Chong, May 4 and 8, and December 20, 

 1926; one male and one female, Chantuk, June 12, 13, 1934; one- 

 female. Pang Sok, August 24, 1926; one female. Ban Nong Dern Ta, 

 March 2, 1929; one male. Ban Foe Hilom, March 3, 1929; one male, 

 Knong Phra, April 15, 1929; one female, Lat Bua Kao, August 11, 

 1929; three males, Nong Mong, Krabin, August 22-23, 1925; one male 

 and one female, Sakeo, near Krabin, May 2, 1928; two males and 

 one female, Nong Khor, Sriracha, November 19, 1926, February 7 

 and 9, 1927; two males and one female, Hupbon, May 25, 1925, 

 November 8 and 15, 1931; two males and one female, Nong Yang, 

 November 6, 20, 1931; one female. Ban Tarn Dam, March 6, 1930 ; 

 one male, Kao Seming, Krat, January 2, 1930. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected 10 adult males, one immature male, and 

 six females in Tenasserim (Bok Pyin, February 12-13, 1900; Telok 

 Besar, November 26, 1900; Champang, December 14, 1903; Boycea 

 Point, February 12, 1904). 



Dr. Abbott gives the color of the soft parts as follows: Male — 

 upper mandible red, horn yellow at the tip, lower mandible dark horn 

 brown; iris in two rings, inner narrow and green, outer yellow; feet 

 pale green. The female has both the upper and lower mandibles black. 



This is a very variable form. The sexes are much alike; the 

 principal difference is the red upper mandible and dark brown lower 

 mandible in the male. The female has the bill wholly black. Several 

 young in Dr. Smitli's series have the bill wholly red. They are all 

 marked males, except one, and this might be wrongly sexed. The 

 onionskin pink of the chest of the female is washed in the male with 

 grayish \T!olet-blue of varj'ing depths of color. 



The range of the form is an extensive one, occurring from Kuman 

 to East Assam, eastern Bengal, Burma, and Yunnan south to Siam 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 259, 1934. 



