35. PALJSORNIS. 443 



yellowish green ; central tail-leathers scarcely tinged with bluish ; 

 tail underneath yellowish : upper mandible red, under mandible 

 reddish black : iris yellow ; naked skin round the eyes orange : 

 feet dark grey. Total length 14 # 3 inches, wing 7"3, tail 7 - 2, bill 

 0-95, tarsus 0-6. 



Female. Differs from the male in having no bluish tinge on the 

 occiput, no rose collar, and no black mandibular stripes, there being 

 only a trace of the latter of a dark-green colour ; as in the male. 

 there is a black narrow stripe from the nostrils to the eyes : the 

 central tail-feathers are tinged with blue, more conspicuously than 

 in the male, at least in the specimen examined ; bill entirely dusky 

 black. Dimensions as in the male, but the bill a little smaller 

 (0-92 inch). 



Hab. Mauritius. 



This species is very similar to P. torquata, from which it differs 

 in being larger, of a darker green colour, and in having the tail- 

 feathers broader. 



a. cJ ad. st. Mauritius. Purchased. 



b. $ ad. sk. Mauritius. Purchased. 



c. d. $ $ ad. sk. Mauritius (Bewsher). Shellev Coll. 



7. Palseornis torquata. 



? The long-tailed Green Parrot, Edw. Glean, iv. pi. 175 (1751) 



(West Indies) ; Lath, Gen. Si/n. i. p. 2-jO (without var. A) (1781) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 153 ( 1822). 

 Psittaca, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 319 (1760). 

 Psittaca torquata, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 323, n. 55 (1700). 

 Psittacus alexandri (part.), Linn. S. N. i. p. 141 (1766). 

 PPsittacus rufirostris, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 143, n. 18 ($) (1766) 



(America) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 823, n. 18 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



i. p. 95, n. 39 (without var. /3) (1790); Bechst. Lath. Uebers. 



p. 73 (1811) ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 26 (1820) ; 77c///. Enc. M6th 



iii. p. 1401 (1823); Voiyt, Car. Ueb. p. 729 (1831). 

 PPsittacus krameri, Scop. Annus I. Hist. Nat. p. 31 (1769) 

 La Perruche, D'Aubent. I'l. En'. 550 ($). 

 La Perruche a collier, D'Aubent, PI. Enl. 551 (<3). 

 La Perruche a collier couleur de rose, Butt'. Hist. Nat. Ois vi 



p. 152 (1779). 

 Le Sincialo, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 265. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet, var. A, Rose-ringed Parrakeet, Lath. Sun i 



p. 235(1781). ' 



Psittacus torquatus, Bodd. Tab/. PL Enl. p. 32 (178:5); Kuhl 



Consp. Psitt. p. 30 (1820) ; Voigt, Cur. Ueb. p. 727 (1831); Sundev. 



Physiogr. SaUsk. Tidskr. l>-'!7. p. 173; Thienem. Fortpfl. d aes 



Vbg. p. 78 (1846). 

 Psittacus alexandn, var. 0, Gm. S. N, i. p. 32] (1788): Lath Ind 



Orn. i. p. 98 (1790). 

 Psittacus manillensis, Bechst. Stubenvog. p. 612 (1794); id. Lath. 



Ueb. p. 75, n. 50 (1811) ; Ha/in, Orn. Atl, Papa,/, p. 17, t. 6 frf) 



(1834). * y ' 



Alexandrine Parrakeet, Lath. St/n. Sii]>/,/. ii. p. 86 (18Q2). 



