35. FAI/JEOKNIS. 433 



ncath dull golden olive : " iris red ; bill vermilion ; tarsus dull olive- 

 brown " (Gufflemard). Total length 16 inches, wing 8-8, tail 6*2, 

 bill 1-5, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. A little smaller than the adult, the head somewhat darker 

 and the bill whitish. 



This is a very distinct species, resembling T. everetti, but much 

 larger and with the head lighter than the body, and no blue edgings 

 to tho feathers of the interscapular region. 



Hub. Sooloo Islands. 



a. Ad.sk. Sooloo Islands (Burbidge). II. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad.etjuv.sk. Sooloo Islands (Burbidge). II. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 



35. PALjEORNIS. _ 



lype. 



Palseornis, Vig. /Coo/. Journ. ii. p. 46 (1825) P. eupatna. 



Belocercus, Mutt, fy Schleg. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederl. 



overz. Bezitt. {Land- en Volkenk.), p. 107 (1839-44) P. longicauda. 



Belurus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool 1854, p. l-r2 .... P. longicauda. 



Range. Africa north of the Equator from Senegambia to Abys- 

 sinia ; Seychelles, Mauritius, and Rodriguez Islands ; India, Ceylon. 

 Burmese Regions, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Cochin China, 

 Hainan, S. and S.W. China, Malay Peninsula and Sunda Islands, 

 Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head green. 



a'. A large red patch on the wing-coverts. 

 a". A rose collar round the nape of the males, 

 wanting in the females. 

 a". Smaller : wing 7"8 to 8'2 inches ; depth 

 of the upper mandible at cere 073 to 



- 78 inch expat ria, p. 435. 



b'". Larger : depth of the upper mandible 

 0-85 to 0-06 inch, 

 o*. Nape and sides of the head more or 

 less tinged with glaucous grey j 

 depth of the upper mandible 09 . . nepalenais, p. 437. 

 b*. Nape and sides of the head with no 

 glaucous-grey tinge. 

 a 5 . Depth of the upper mandible at 



cere 0'8o inch indoburmonica, p. 138. 



6\ Depth of the upper mandible at 



cere - 93 to 09b - inch magnirostris, p. 440. 



//'. Rose collar wanting both in male and 

 female; green colour brighter and darker 



than in all the above Bpecies irardi, p. 441. 



b'. No red patch on the wing-coverts ; males 

 with a rose collar, females without it. 

 c". Larger: wing 7*3 inches; tail-feathers 

 very broad : rose collar of the male inter- 

 rupted behind: green colour rather dark, eques, p. 44:?. 



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