470 PSITTAC1DJJ. 



Male. Total length 13\5 inches, wing 6*1, tail 6-5, bill 1, tarsus 

 0-54. 



Hab. Java and Southern Borneo. 



I have never seen a specimen of this Parrot from Borneo, 'where 

 most likely it has been introduced in the southern part. 



a. Ad. st. [India]. J. Inslripp [P.]. 



b. Ad. st. Indian Archipelago. Sir E. Belcher [P.l 



c. $ ad. sk. East Java. A. R. Wallace [C.]. 

 d,e. c? $ ad. sk. Java (La/den Museum). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. West Java. E. Nicholson [P.]. 



g, h. Imm, sk. Java. Tweeddale Coll. 



i, k. Skeletons. 



19. Palseornis caniceps. 



Palffiornis caniceps, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xv. pp. 23, 51, 368 (1846) ; id. 

 Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 6 (1849) ; id. J. A. S. B. xix. p. 233 

 (1850) ; Bp. Rev, et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 152, n. 146 ; Hartl. 

 Joum.f Om. 1854, B. p. lxiii ; Horsf. # Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. 

 I. Comp. p. 621 (1856-58) ; Gould, B. of Asia, vi. pi. 5 (pt. ix., 

 1857) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 454 ; G. R. Or. List Psitt. Brit. 

 Mm. p. 25 (1859) ; Jerd. B. of Bid. i. p. 264 (1862) ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 5 ; Wall, P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 282, 292 ; Pelz. Novara 

 Reis., Vdff. p. 98 (1865); Finseh, Papag. ii. p. 83 (1868); Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1873, p. 80 (note) ; Ball, Str. Fea'th. i. p. 61 (1873); Hume, 

 Str. Feath. ii. pp. 25, 178 (1874) ; Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 296 ; Blyth, 

 B. of Burm. p. 56 (note) (1875) ; Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 7 (1877) ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath. viii. pp. 51, 87, n. 151 ter (1878) ; Rchnw. 

 VogelbUd. t. xiii. f. 1 (1878-83) ; id. Joum. f. Om. 1881, p. 240 

 (Consjj. Psitt. p. 128) ; Tweedd. Om. Worlcs, p. 285 (1881). 



Belurus caniceps, Souanci, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 209. 



Belocercus caniceps, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt, n. 149; G. 

 R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 143, n. 8069 (1870). 



Palseornis canicollis (errore), Rehniv. Jown. f. Om. 1881, p. 234 

 (Consp. Psitt. p. 122.). 



Adult male. Green, brighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 head grey; the grey nape passing gradually into the green back; 

 a broad black band from the forehead to the eyes ; chin and broad 

 mandibular stripes also black ; primaries and their coverts black, 

 washed with green on the outer web, and narrowly edged with 

 blue towards the base of the outer web ; tail green above, dull 

 golden beneath ; middle tail-feathers greyish towards the tip, and 

 in some specimens slightly tinged with bluish at the base, tip 

 greenish : iris orange-red ; upper mandible rod, lower black ; feet 

 plurabcous-green. Total length 22 inches, wing 8*8, tail 14, bill 

 1"15, tarsus 0*7. 



Female. The grey colour of the pileum and nape tinged with 

 bluish ; the bill wholly black. 



Hab. Confined to the Nicobar Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. [Pinang.] India Museum [P.], 



b, c. c? ad. sk. Great Nicohars, April, Nov. Hume Coll. 



(A. de Roepstorff). 



