35. PAL.E0RN1S. 451 



Perruche a epaulettes jaunes, Levaitt. Pen: pi. 61 (1801) (Ternate !). 

 Psittacus xanthosomus, Bechst. Lath. Uebers. p. 74, pi. 5 (ex Le- 



vaillant) (1812) ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 34 (1820). 

 Psittacus ternatensis, Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 346 (1817) (ex Levail- 



lant) ; id. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1386 (1823). 

 Azure-headed Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 120 (1822), 

 Palosornis xanthosomus, Yiy. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 52 (182-5) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. xiv. 2, p. 127 (1826). 

 Paheornis cyauocephalus, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 21 



(1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 356 ; id. Hand-list, ii. p. 143, n. 8061 



(1870) ; Salvad. Oni. Pap. e Mol. i. p. 326 (1880). 



Yellow Variety. 



Jonquil Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 83, pi. 123 (1802) ; Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 427 (1811) ; Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 143, 

 pi. 23 (1822). 



Psittacus narcissus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxi (1801) ; Vieill. 

 X. I), xxv. p. 353 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1391 (1823). 



Adult male. Olive-green ; head red, tinged with plum-bloom on 

 the hind part and on the lower cheeks ; black mandibular stripes 

 joined to a narrow black collar ; hind neck and rump verdigris- 

 green ; back and scapulars olive-green ; breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts yellowish green ; wings green, upper wing- 

 coverts slightly edged with verdigris-green ; a dark red spot on 

 the middle wing-coverts ; quills dusky internally, and with a narrow 

 yellow outer margin ; axillaries and under wing-coverts verdigris- 

 green ; central tail-feathers blue, washed with green at the base 

 and with the tips white, the next pair more green towards the 

 base, the others green on their outer webs, yellow internally ; 

 tail underneath mostly yellowish : iris white or yellowish white ; 

 upper mandible orange-yellow, lower mandible blackish ; feet 

 dusky sage-green. Total length 14-15 inches, wing 5-6, tail 8-9, 

 bill 0*7, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Smaller than the male; the head dull plum-blue, more 

 greyish on the forehead and cheeks ; a yellow collar, broader on 

 the sides of the neck ; no black collar and no black mandibular 

 stripes ; no red patch on the median upper wing-coverts : upper 

 mandible yellow, lower dusky or blackish. 



Young. Green, brightest on the rump and lower back, paling 

 slightly on the forehead ; a slight indication of a pale green collar 

 on the nape ; central tail-coverts washed with blue ; bill greenish 

 yellow. 



In the next stage the forehead becomes paler and the head 

 bluish, with a dusky edge bordering the lower mandible; the 

 middlo rectrices are blue, as in the adult, but with less of the 

 white colour at the extremity ( Legg< ). 



J fab. Ceylon ; Southern, Central, the whole of Xorthern and 

 Western India, and the Himalayas as far east as the Dhoon. 



a. Ad. st. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



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 b-e. J 2 ad. et Ceylon, Nov. (Hart Bros.). Hume Coll. 



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