•A36 PSITTACIDJ.. 



Lath. Ueb. p. 76 (1812) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 325 (1817) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1385 (1823). 

 La Grande Perruche a collier, Levaill. Pen: i. p. 88, pi. 30 (<J ad.) 



(1801) (Indes Or. et Ceylan). 

 La Perruche a epaulettes rouges, Levaill. Pen: ii. p. 8, pi. 73 ( 2 



ad.) (1805). 

 Palaeornis alexandri, Viy. (nee Linn.) Zool. Journ. ii. p. 49 (1825) ; 



Steph, Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 126 (1826) (Ceylon); Wagl. Man. 



Psitt. p. 506 (1832) ; Selb. Nat. Libr., Parrots, p. 72, pi. 2 (1836) ; 



? Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 208 (1840) : Hartl, Syst. Vera. Ges. 



Mus. p. 84 (1844) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 409, n. 1 (1846); 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 4, n. 16 (partim) (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. Av. i. p. 2 (partim) (1850) ; Eelaart, Prodi: Faun. Ceyl. 



p. 127 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. 8f May. N. H. (2) xiii. p. 262 



(1854); Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 158; Bp.Bev.etMay.de 



Zool. 1854, p. 152, n. 137 ; Souance, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, 



p. 157; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 136 (partim'); 



Mors/. 8,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Comp. ii. p. 610 (1856-58) ; 



G. P. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 18 (partim) (1859) ; Jerd. B. 



qflnd. i. p. 256 (partim) (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 1 (partim) ; 



Finsch, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Berigt. p. ix (partim) (1863) ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 16 (partim) (1864) ; Sousa, 3Ius. 



Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 14 (1869) ; Holdsiv. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 425 



(Ceylon only); Rutt. Str. Feath. i. p. 333 (1873); ? Gar rod, 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 465, 1874, p. 587 ; Leyye, Ibis, 1874, p. 14 



(Ceylon) ; ? Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 35 (ls74) ; 



P Gullii: P. Z. S. 1875, p. 489 ; Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 309 ; 



Sclat. List Vert. An. Sth ed. p. 320 (partim ?) (1883). 

 Conurus alexandri, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 214 (1831). 

 Palaeornis cucullatus, Lear, Parr. pi. 32 (1832) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 409, n. 2 (1846). 

 Palaeornis eupatria, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 71 (1854); G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 142, n. 8049 (partim) (1870) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 



ii. p. 86, n. 147(1879) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 75 (1889). 

 Palaeornis eupatrius, part., Finsch, Papay. ii. p. 11 (1868) ; Hume, 



Str. Feath. i. p. 433 (Ceylon) (1873), ii. pp. 9, 10 (1874) ; 



Wald. Ibis, 1874, pp. 278, 280, 282 ; Leyye, Str. Feath. iii. p. 199 



(1875); id, Ms, 1875, p. 282 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 8 (partim) 



(1877) ; Leyye, B. Ceyl. p. 168 (1880) ; Rchmv. Voyelbild. t. v. 



figs. 1, 2 (lt<78-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 234 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 122) ; Park. Ibis, 1886, p. 183 ; Oates, Nests $ Fays 



Ind. B. iii. p. 82 (partim) (1890). 



Adult male. Above grass-green, brighter on the forehead and 

 lores and darker on the wings ; beneath dingy green, a little brighter 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a faint blackish stripe from 

 the nostrils to the eye ; occiput and cheeks pervaded with a greyish- 

 blue tinge ; broad black mandibular stripes passing down and 

 across the sides of the neck, where they meet a rose collar which 

 encircles the hind neck ; on the secondary wing-coverts a dark red 

 patch ; greater under wing-coverts and quills underneath slate- 

 grey ; central tail-feathers passing from the green base into blue 

 and thence into yellowish at the tips ; under surface of the tail yel- 

 lowish : " legs pale yellow, with a bluish-grey inner circle ; bill 

 deep cherry- red, paler on the lower mandible, the tip somewhat 

 yellowish ; feet sap-green or plumbeous grey " (Legge). Total 



