472 rsiTTACiD^. 



on the sinciput ; crown dull reddish with a greenish tinge, occiput 

 and nape brighter reddish; loral bands and broad mandibular 

 stripes black ; cheeks and ear-coverts bright brick-red ; upper back 

 pale yellowish green, more or less washed with bluish ; lower back 

 green tinged with bluish ; uropygium and upper tail-coverts bright 

 green ; fore neck and upper breast pale yellowish green, passing into 

 bright green on tbe lower breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and 

 smaller and median under wing-coverts ; wings green ; inner webs 

 and under surface of quills and greater under wing-coverts dark 

 blackish ; central tail-feathers green, changing into blue towards 

 the apical half, and slightly tinged with green at the tip, the other 

 tail-feathers green ; tail underneath dull golden olive : " iris yellow ; 

 upper mandible red with the tip whitish, under mandible black ; 

 feet grey" (ModigUani). Total length about 15 - o inches, wing 

 S-25, tail 9, bill 1-25, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. Green, lighter underneath ; pileum greenish brown ; 

 frontal edge, lores, and mandibular stripes dark bluish green, almost 

 black; cheeks and ear-coverts reddish, the last edged behind with 

 a bluish band ; tail above green, apical part of the central feathers 

 blue, with the tip greenish ; tail underneath dull golden olive : bill 

 black. Total length 13 inches, wing 7'6, tail 6*75, bill 1-2, tarsus 07. 



Hab. Engano, off the west coast of Sumatra. Dr. E. Modigliani 

 has quite recently discovered the habitat, previously unknown, of 

 this bird; the two living specimens mentioned (?. c.) by Dr. Vor- 

 derman, as from Lampong (S. E. Sumatra), no doubt were from 

 Engano. 



A very large male specimen, kept in confinement, now in the 

 British Museum (specim. a), has the following dimensions : — Total 

 length 19 inches, wing 8, tail 1D3, bill 1-15, tarsus 0-65. 



a, b. <3 2 a d. st. Indian Archipelago (?). Zoological Society [P.]. 



c. $ ad. st. Zoological Society [P. J. 



(Type of species.) 



d. 2 ad. sk. Gould Coll. 



e,f. d 2 ad. sk. Engano, May 1891. Dr. E. Modigliani [C.]. 



21. Palseornis nicobarica. 



Palasornis erythrogenvs, Blyth (nee Lesson, neqite Bourjot), J. A. S. B. 

 xv. pp. 23, 51, 309 '(1846) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 6 (1349) ; 

 id. J. A. S. B. xix. p. 233 (1850) ; Ilorsf. § Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 

 E. I. Comp. ii. p. 620 (1856-58) ; Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 81 

 (1858); G. R. Gr, List Psitt. Brit.' Mus. p. 23 (1859); Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1863, pp. 5, 465 (partim), 1868, p. 132 ; Finsch, Papag. ii. 

 p. 81 (partim) (1868); Ball, J. A. 8. B. xxxix. p. 30 (partim) 

 (1870) ; id. Str. Featk.i. p. 601 (partim) (1873); ? Blyth, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 80 (note); Hume, Str. Feath. ii. pp. 23, 181 (1874); Garrod, 

 P. Z. S. 1874, p. 587 ; Blyth, B. of Burm. p. 54 (note) (partim) 

 (1875); Wold. ibid. p. 55 (note) (1875); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. 

 p. 8 (1877) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. xiii. f. 2 (1878-83); id. Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1881, p. 242 (Consp. Psitt. p. 130) (partim); Mat. List 

 Vert. An. 8th eel. p. 323 (1883). 



Belurus erythrogenys, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 152, n. 149. 



