Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 5 



numbers of them are brought to Calcutta, and the small young 

 during the month of April. 



7. P. CANicEPs, Blyth, J. A. S. xv. pp. 23, 51, 368 (Gould, 

 B. As. pt. ix.). 



Hub. Of this fine large species, a living male was obtained in 

 one of the Nicobar Islands, with its wings and tail much muti- 

 lated ; and the late Dr. Cantor procured a fine female in Penang. 



8. P. JAVANicus, Osbeck (Swainson, Zool. 111. ser. 1, pi. 16). 

 Syn. P. javanicas, P. vibrisca, P. barbatus (?), P. melano- 



rhynchus, et P. borneus, Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat. Psittacidse (1859), 

 pp. 23, 24. 



Hab. This handsome species is particularly abundant in the 

 Indo-Chinese countries, but is not seen wild on the western side 

 of the Bay of Bengal, though ponticerianus is one of its syno- 

 nyms; neither (according to the Dutch naturalists) does it in- 

 habit Borneo, though borneus is another synonym; but it is 

 common in Java and also in Siam, and thence to Assam, and 

 westward to Nepal, breeding in the hills and adjacent forests, 

 and resorting in immense flocks to the open plains when the 

 crops are ripening. In the forests of Upper Martaban I ob- 

 served only this species and P. rosa, both in extreme abundance. 

 Buchanan Hamilton observed them "in the woods near Gor- 

 ruckpore.^' Vast numbers are obtained by the Calcutta bird- 

 dealers, even when very young, which are brought from Tippera 

 and Chittagong, as I have been assured. 



9. P. ERYTHROGENYs, Blyth, J. A. S. XV. pp. 23, 51, 368 

 (Gould, B. As. pt. ix.). 



Syn. P. nicobaricus, Gould. 



Hab. Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 



10. P. LONGiCAUDUS : Psittcicus longicaudus, Boddaert, ex Buff. 

 PI. Enl. 887. 



Syn. Vide Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat. Psittacidse (1859), p. 23. 

 P. mudestus, Fraser, et P. viridimystax, Blyth, 



Hab. Sumatra, Borneo, and the southern portion of the Ma- 

 layan peninsula, — being the only Palaornis there met with, and 

 having the same range of distribution as the two following 

 species. 



