502 PSITTACID.E. 



Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1879, p. 211; Mchnw. Vogelbild. t. xr. f. 5 



(1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 25G (Consp. Psitt. p. 144) ; 



Nichols. Ibis, 1882, p. 57-; Salvin, Cat. B. StricM. Coll. p. 458 



(1882) ; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii. p. 147 (1883) ; Vorderm. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xlvi. p. 224 (1886) ; Biittik. Not. Leyd. Mus. 



ix'. p. 12 (1886) ; Salvud. e Gigl. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxix. 



p. 101 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 76 (1889) ; Vorderm. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Ned. Lid. xlix. p. 388 (1889) ; Everett, Journ. Sir. Br. 



It. As. Soc. 1889, p. 177 ; Murr. Avif. of Brit. Ind. ii. p. 462 



(1890). 

 Agapornis malaccensis, Rosenb. Journ. f Orn. 1862, pp. 59, 60; id. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. pp. 138, 139 (1863). 

 Psittacula azurea, Schleg. T)ierent. p. 67 (1864). 

 Dichrognathus incertus, Rehmv. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 397 (Conzp. 



Psitt. p. 229) : id. Vogelbild. Syst. Verz. n. 264 (1883) ; Heine $ 



Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 236 (1890). 



Adult male. Head and neck grey, tinged with blue, brighter on 

 the forehead and vertex ; interscapular region and scapulars 

 blackish with an olive tinge ; lower back, uropygium, and upper 

 tail-coverts deep blue ; under parts olive-green, washed with bluish 

 grey ; vent green, washed with blue ; under tail-coverts yellowish 

 green, slightly edged with blue ; wings green, the wing-coverts and 

 the last secondaries edged with greenish yellow, a dark red patch 

 along the small upper wing-coverts ; bastard-wing green, edged 

 with blue ; primary wing-coverts blue ; primaries green, the inner 

 Avebs and underneath black ; the inner webs have a narrow yellow 

 edge ; metacarpal edge yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 bright red ; central tad-feathers green, the others greenish yellow ; 

 tail underneath yellow : "upper mandible orange-vermilion, under 

 mandible dusky or dull reddish brown ; legs and feet, pale dirty 

 green ; eyelids and cere dusky green ; iris creamy white " (Davi- 

 son). Total length 7"5 inches, wing 4-6 to 4-8, tail 2, bill 0-85, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Head and nape reddish brown, sides of the head 

 yellowish, tinged with reddish brown, the shaft of the feathers 

 dusky ; back, uropygium, and upper tail-coverts green, a small patch 

 of blue on the lower back ; underparts yellowish green, the feathers 

 of the breast darker in the middle so as to produce a scaly appear- 

 ance ; wings and tail as in the male : " upper mandible dusky white, 

 lower mandible dirty white ; cere, eyelids, legs, and feet dusky green " 

 (Davison). 



Young. Green above, also on the head, a slight tinge of blue on 

 the forehead, lower back with a blue patch ; no trace, or scarcely 

 any, of the brown-red patch on the small wing. coverts; the under- 

 parts arc much darker than in the adult females and of a purer 

 green. 



Hub. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Imm. sk. Tenasserirn. J. D. C. Packman, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 b-f. S 2 ad. et Near Tavoy, March, April Hume Coll. 

 imm. sk. ( W. Davison). 



