454 psittacim:. 



? Swinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 123; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 8 (part.) 



(1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, v. 3 (1877) ; Hume $• Davis. 



Str. Feath. vi. p. 118 (1878) ; Anders. Yunn. Fxped. p. 568 



(1879); Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 86, n. 149 bis (1879); Bingh. 



Str. Feath. ix. p. 160 (1880) ; Oates, B. of Burnt, ii. p. 145 (1883) ; 



Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 75 (1889) ; Murr. B. of Brit. Bid. ii. 



p. 467 (1890) ; Oates, Nests § Eggs Lid. B. iii. p. 88 (1890). 

 Parrakeet from near Canton, Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 411. 

 Palseornis rosa, Jerd. B. of hid. i. p. 259 (part.) (1862); Swinh. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 259 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 353 (part.), 1870, 



p. 162 (part.) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 391 ; Select. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 300; Mchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1879, p. 211 : Ler/ge, B. of Ceijl. 



p. 175 (1880) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xiii. f. 5 (1878-83) ; id. Journ. 



f. Orn. 1881, p. 238 {Consp. Psitt. p. 126) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 



8th ed. p. 322 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) iv. p. 575 



(1887), v. p. 560 (1888). 

 Palaeornis cyanocephala, Gould (nee Linn.), B. of Asia, vi. pi. 3 



(pt. xxvi., 1874). 

 ? Palaeornis bodini, Buss, Gefied. Welt, vii. p. 359 (1878): Bchnw. 



Orn. Ce-ntralbl. iii. p. 182 '(1878) : Ibis, 1879, p. 100. 



Very similar to P. cyanocephala, but in both sexes the axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts are green and not verditer-green. Dimen- 

 sions smaller. 



Adult male. The head is much paler than that of P. cyano- 

 cephala, rosy pink on the forehead, cheeks, and ear-coverts, 

 changing into greyish lilac on the crown and nape ; no broad 

 verditer-green collar, no tinge of the same colour on the uropygium ; 

 back, scapulars, and underparts less yellowish and more decidedly 

 green ; red spot on the wing-coverts darker ; white tips of the two 

 middle tail-feathers tinged with yellowish. Total length 13 inches, 

 wing 5*5, tail 7, bill 0-72, tarsus - 49. 



Female. Has the dai'k red spot on the wing-coverts like the 

 male, the head more greyish and less blue than that of P. cyano- 

 cepliala, female ; the yellow collar less distinct on the sides of the 

 neck ; the green colour above and below purer, and no verditer-green 

 tinge on the uropygium. 



Hah. Sikhim, Dacca, Eastern Bengal, Assam, Upper Burniah, 

 and eastwards as far as Cochin China, and Southern China (Swinhoe). 



Blyth (Ibis, 1S66, p. 353) mentions a specimen in Mr. Louis 

 Eraser's collection with a green tail; Herr Buss (Gefied. Welt, vii. 

 p. 359) describes a Palceornis bodini, with the middle tail-feathers 

 not blue, but green, which Dr. Beichcnow (Orn. Centralbl. iii. 

 p. 182) has identified with P. rosa I I have never seen a green- 

 tailed specimen. 



In Swinhoe's collection, now in the possession of Mr. Seebohm, 

 were two specimens said to have come from China ; the one from 

 Chefoo, Oct. 5, 1873, which has been lately presented to the British 

 Museum, is certainly a cage-bird, and that from Canton may have 

 been brought alive to Canton and escaped from confinement. 



a-f. Ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Hodgso7i). India Museum [P.]. 



(j, h. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



