THE IBIS. 



No. XVII. JANUARY 1863. 



I. — Catalogue of the Birds of India, with Remarks on their Geo- 

 graphical Distribution, By Edward Blyth, Curator of the 

 Asiatic Society's Museum^ Calcutta. Part I., containing 

 Scansores and Raptores. 



[This catalogue will include, besides the birds of India proper and 

 Cashmere (to which Mr. Jerdon confines his attention in his work now in 

 preparation), the species found in Ceylon, Assam, the British Burmese 

 territories, and the Malayan peninsula, down to Singapore, the Andaman 

 and Nicobar Islands, and what little is knon-n of the Ornithology of the 

 Maldives and Laccadives.] 



Order SCANSORES. 

 Fam. PSITTACIDiE. 

 Genus PALiEORNis, Vigors (including Belocercus, Miiller). ' 



1. P. ALEXANDRi : Psittacus alexandri, L. (Edwards, B. 

 pi. 292. f. 1.) 



Syn. Vide Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat. Psittacidffi (1859), p. 18. 



Hah. The Alexandrian Parrakeet inhabits the hilly regions of 

 all India, from the sub-Himalayas to Ceylon, inclusive, with 

 those of Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, and the Tenasserim provinces 

 as low as Amherst province. According to Dr. Mason, " it is 

 found in the provinces Amherst, Pegu, and Arakan ; but I never 

 saw it,'' he remarks, " in Tavoy or Mergui." Neither did I ob- 

 serve it in the interior of the province of Martaban, nor towards 

 the coast upon the hills near Moulmein. It has been received 

 from Siam, and also from the Andaman Islands *, In Nepal, 



* A hving specimen, however ; very possibly a native of India that had 

 been taken from Calcutta to Port Blair in the first instance. 

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