35. rAL.r.oExis. 437 



length 18 to 19-5 inches, wing 7-8 to 8-2, tail 11 to 12, bill 1-3, 

 depth of upper mandible at cere 0-73 to 078, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Wants the black mandibular stripes and the rose 

 collar. Total length 17 to 18 inches, wing 7*5 to 7'8, tail 9 to 10, 

 greatest depth of upper mandible 07. 



Young male. Similar to the female in plumage, but generally 

 larger. 



Huh. Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. Calapetya, Ceylon. Hume Coll. 



b, c. (J ad. sk. Ragam Corale, Ceylon, Julv Hume Coll. 



(Ihut Brothers). 



d. d imm. sk. Ceylon. Hume Coll. 



e,f. 3 ad. et Ceylon, July, October. W. V. Legge, E>q. 



imm. sk. [P.]. 



//, /(. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Tweed'dale Coll. 



'• Ad.sk. [Saigon, Cochin China *.] M. Pierre [C.]. 

 k. Skeleton. 



2. Palaeornis nepalensis. 



Palaeornis nipalensis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 177 (1836); id. 



Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; Lielrf. Nomencl. Av. v. 71 (1854) 



(Nepal) ; Hume, Str. Feath. vii. p. 458 (1879), viii. p. 86, n. 



147 ter (1879) ; Relnur. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 235 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 123); id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 56 (1883); Oates, B. Brit. Barm. 



ii. p. 140 (1883) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B.j>..75 (1889). 

 Palaeornis alexandrinus, Bhith, Ann. & Man. N. H. xii. p. 90 



(1843). ' 



Palaeornis alexandri (part.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 208 (1840) ; 



Gray (nee Linn.), Cat. Hoch/s. Coll. B. Mus. p. 112 (1846) : Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 4 (1849) (Nepal) ; Bvn/rss, P. Z. S. 1-54. 



p. 256; Horsf. .V Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Comp. ii. p. 610 



(1856-58) (Nepal) ; Philipps, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 99; Adams, P. Z. s. 



1858, p. 490, f859, p. 173 (Cashmere); G. R. Gr. List psitt. 



Brit, Mus. p. 18 (1859); Lrhy. Ibis, 1861, p. 213: Jerd. B. Ind. 



i. p. 256 (part.) (1862) ; Bhith. Pis. 1863, p. 1 (part.) : Gray, Cat. 



Hodr/s. Cull. Ii. Mus. 2nd ed. p. 61 (1863); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 



Psittaci, p. 76 (part.) (1864); Bear, [nee Linn.) Ibis, L865, p. 409 



(Maunbhoom) : Tyti. Pus. L868, p. 201 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 47; 



Bear. Ibis, 1869, p. lit); Sousa, Mns. x, ir . Lis/,. Psittaci, p. 14 



(1869). 

 Palaeornis eupatrius (part.), Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 10 (1868); Gieb. 



The*. <>m. iii. p. 8 (1877) ; Oates, Nests \- Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 82 



(partim) (1890). 

 Palaeornis eupatria (part.). G. R. Gr. Hand-list. ii. p. 142. n. 8049 



(1870) ; Switih. \ Hum. [lire I. inn.) Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 

 Palaeornis sivalensis, llu't. str. Feath. i. p. 335 (1873); Hume. Str. 



Feath. ii. pp. 9. 10,11 (1874). iii. p. 200 (note, iris white), vi. 



pp. 117. 118 (1878) ; Legge, /;. Ctyl. p. 169 (1880). 

 Palaeornis sacer, Hutt. 1. c. p. 337 (1873). 



* Tin's specimen lived in the Zoological Garden at Saigon, where most 

 likely it had been brought from Cevlon. 



