442 



PSITTACID^I. 



slightly tinged with blue on the outer web ; the inner web of the 

 lateral tail-feathers yellowish green ; tail underneath yellowish ; 

 underparts yellowish green : bill red ; feet dusky grey. Total 

 length 16 inches, wing 7"75, tail 9, bill P4, tarsus 0*75. 



Female. Wants the black mandibular stripes. 



Hub. Seychelles. 



This species differs from P. eupatrius and allies in wanting 

 the rose collar. 



a. [$]ad. sk. 



b, c. Ad. sk. 



Mahe, Seychelles, March. 

 Seychelles, May (H. M. 

 Warn/). 



Canon Tristram [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



6. Palseornis eques. 



Psittaca borhonica torquata, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 328, pi. xxvii. f. 1 



(1760) (Bourbon). 

 Psittacus alexandri, var. y, Linn. 8. N. p. 142 (1766). 

 Pemiche a collier de l'Isle de Bourbon, Daubent. PI. Enl. 215. 

 Perruche a double collier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 143 (1779) ; 



Levaill. Pen: pi. 39 (1801). 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet, var. C, Double-ringed Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. 



i. p. 326 (1781) ; Shaw, Gen. Zuol. viii. 2, p. 525 (1811). 

 Psittacus eques, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 13 (1783). 

 Psittacus alexandri, var. b, Gm. S. N. i. p. 321 (1788) ; Lath. 1ml. 



Orn. i. p. 98 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 345 (1817). 

 Psittacus semirostris, Herm. Obs. Zovl. p. 125 (1804). 

 Psittacus bitorquatus, Kulil, Consp. Psitt. p. 92 (1820). 

 Rose-ringed Parrakeet, var. B, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 161 (1822). 

 Psittacus bicollaris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1385 (1823). 

 Palreornis bitorquatus, Tig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 51 (1825); Steph. 



Gen. Zool, xiv. p. 127 (1826) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 152, n. 139 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 158 ; Bp. 



Naumaunia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 138; id. C'ompt. Rend. xliv. 



p. 538. 

 Palseornis cubicularis, part., Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 507 (1832). 

 Palseornis torquatus (part.), G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 409, n. 3 



(1846) ; ? Schleg. et Poll. Rech. Faun. Madag. p. 157 (Mauritius) 



(1868). 

 Palaeornis borbonicus. Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 152, n. 140 ; 



id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 140. 

 Palseornis eques, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 20 (1859) ; E. 



Neivt. Ibis, 1861, p. 115; Finsch, Papaq. ii. p. 35 (1868); 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 142, n. 8052 (1870) ; Newt. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 34; Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 15 (1874); A. Sr E. Newt. Ibis, 



1876, pp. 283, 284, 289 ; Gieb. Tlies. Orn. iii. p. 8 (1877) ; Hart!. 



Vdff. Madag. p. 222 (1877) ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1878, 



p. 166; Rctmw. Joum.f. Orn. 1881, p. 238 (Consp. Psitt. p. 126) ; 



id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 59 (1883). 

 Palseornis echo, A. Newt. Ibis, 1876, p. 284 (Mauritius). 



Adult male. Green, the occiput tinged with bluish ; a narrow 

 black stripe from the nostrils to the eye ; broad black mandibular 

 stripes passing down and across the sides of the neck, where they 

 meet a rose collar, not quite complete behind ; under wing-coverts 



