4 Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 



this species is seen in smaller companies than P. javanicus, which 

 have not the same habit of simultaneous descent upon the rice- 

 fields. 



3. P. coLUMBOiDES, Yigors (Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. Sc. xi. 

 p. 209. pi. 3; 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 18). 



Syn. P.melanorhynchus, Sykes (female or young). Psittacus 

 kienerii et Conurus sagittifer columboides, Boui'j. Perr. t. 3, 3 a. 

 Hab. Forests of Malabar; rare in the Nilgiris. 



4. P. CALTHRAP^^ Layard; Blyth, J. A. S. xviii. p. 801. 

 Syn. P. gironieri, Verreaux. Psittacus viridicoUis, Cassin. 

 Hab. Mountains of Ceylon. 



5. P. scHisTicEPs, Hodgson, As. Res. xix. p. 178. 

 Syn. Conurus himalayanus, Lesson. 



Hab, Common in the middle and lower regions of the Hima- 

 laya, extending westward to Pushut, where the late W. Griffith 

 observed it in flocks; Naga and Kashya hills (Ya-ma-Doong 

 range), Upper Pegu. Captured examples are not unfrequently 

 brought to Dacca, but seldom to Calcutta. 



6. P. ROSA : Psittacus rosa, Boddaert, ex Buff. PI. Enl. 888. 

 Syn. P. bengalensis et P. cyanocephalus (?), Gray, vide Brit. 



Mus. Cat. Psittacidje (1859), pp. 20, 2L 



Hab. The upland jungle-districts of all India proper, with 

 Ceylon, Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, Pegu, Martaban, the Tenas- 

 serim provinces, and Siam*; replacing in the lower hills, for 

 the most part, the P. torquatus of the plains of India, but also 

 inhabiting the plains where clad with forest jungle, or otherwise 

 well wooded. Buchanan Hamilton states that many breed in 

 the Bengal Sunderbans, "to which they return in the spring 

 for that purpose. They come out upon the cultivated country 

 in immense flocks so soon as the first crop of rice approaches 

 to maturity; for this is their favourite food." — (MSS.) Great 



* In the Catalogue of the India-house Museum, a specimen is noted 

 from China, " from Reeves's Collection ; " doubtless an Indian example, 

 taken out probably from Calcutta. Is Sonnerat's Philijipine species 

 really different — the P. cyanocephalus of Gray? — [Mr. Swinhoe has ex- 

 iimples of this bird from Canton, where it undoubtedly occurs as a feral 

 species. — Ed.] 



