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PSITIACIDyE. 



12. Palseornis finschi. (Plate XII.) 



Palseornis scliisticeps, Mason (nee Hodgs.), Burmah, p. 179 (1860). 



? Palseornis rosa, Beav. (nee Bodd.) Ibis, 1869, p. 411. 



Palseornis finschi, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 509 (1874) ; Wald. in 



BlytWs B. Burm. p. 55 (1875) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 820 (1877) ; 



Hume Sf Davis, Str. Feath. vi. p. 119 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 



viii. p. 86, n. 150 bis (1879) ; Bingh. Str. Feath. ix. p. 160 (1880) ; 



Rchmv. Voqelbild. text of pi. 13. f. 4 (1878-83) ; id. Journ.f. Orn. 



1881, p. 237 (Consp. Psitt. p. 125) ; Oates, Str. Feath. x. p. 189 



(1882) ; id. B. of B. Burm. ii. p. 142 (1883) ; Hartert, Journ. f. 



Orn. 1889, p. 431. 

 ? Palseornis schisticeps, Bh/th (nee Hodgs.?), B. of Burm. p. 55 



(Arrakan) (1875) ; Hume, Str. Feath. iii. p. 56 (1875). 



Adult male. Very similar to the male of P. schisticeps ; the green 

 feathers have a more yellowish tinge ; the back is slightly tinged 

 with brownish or golden yellow : the slaty-black head is more 

 bluish ; the basal half of the central tail-feathers is blue, more or 

 less green at the extreme base, the terminal half is pale lilac, tipped 

 with yellow: "legs and feet pale dirty green; upper mandible 

 orange-vermilion, tipped yellowish; lower mandible pale yellow; 

 irides usually creamy white, but in some specimens grey, with a fine 

 inner ring of golden yellow ; in others pale brown, with an outer 

 ring of white " (Davison). Total length 16-5 inches, wing 6, tail 

 11, bill 0-9, tarsus 0-58. 



Female. Like the male, but wants the dark red wing-patch ; 

 dimensions a little smaller. 



Hah. Burmah ; probably it extends towards the north as far as 

 Arrakan. 



Besides the differences mentioned above, the much narrower 

 central tail-feathers also distinguish the present species from 

 P. scliisticeps. 



