466 PSITTACIDvE. 



(1882) • id. B. of Brit. Burm. ii. p. 143 (1883) ; Hume, Str. 



Feath. xi. p. 55 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 75 (1880) ; Mwr. 



Avif. of Brit. hid. ii. p. 464 (1890) ; Oates, Nests $ Eggs xnd. B. 



iii. p. 90 (1890). 

 Palffiornis melauorliyncha, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 771 ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1873, p. 79 ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 999. 

 Palseorms ponticerianus, Blyth, Ibis, 1873, p. 79. 

 Palaeornis schisticeps, Sclat. (nee Rodys.) P. Z. S. 1876, p. 696. 

 Paheonris fasciata, Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) iv. p. 574 (1887), 



v. p. 559 (1888), yii. p. 376 (1889). 



Adult male. Green; a large yellowish-green patch on the median 

 wing-coverts ; head grey, with a slight tinge of bluish ; lores and 

 round the eyes tinged with greenish ; a hand from the forehead to 

 the eyes and broad mandibular stripes black ; a collar on the nape 

 to the sides of the neck emerald-green : throat, breast, and upper 

 abdomen vinaceous red ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts green, washed with blue ; middle tail-feathers blue, edged 

 with green near the base and tipped yellowish, the others bluish 

 green ; tail underneath dull golden yellow : upper mandible coral- 

 red, the tip yellow ; lower mandible black; iris light yellow; legs 

 dusky greenish yellow. Total length 14 to 16 inches, wing 6-8, 

 tail 7-5 to 9, bill 1-02, tarsus 0-54. 



Female. Differs in having the head tinged with blue, and the 

 vinaceous red of the breast produced up the sides of the neck between 

 the lilac-blue of the head and the emerald-green of the neck ; bill 

 black, with the base of the lower mandible orange-brown. 



Young. Green ; no vinaceous red on the lower plumage ; forehead 

 and sides of the head more or less greyish ; broad mandibular stripes 

 blackish ; a yellowish patch on the wing-coverts as in the adult : 

 bill black. 



Hab. Eastern Bengal and along the Himalayas as far as Kumaon, 

 Indo-Burmese Regions, Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Cochin China, 

 Hainan, and, according to Swinhoe, also south of China, near Amoy. 



