on some Burmese Birds. 453 



1*. PaLvEORNIS magnirostris. 



Palceornis magnirostris , Ball. 



Far from being a mountain species in Burma, as stated 

 by Blytli (J. A. S. B. 1875,,extra number, p. 51), it is rather 

 scarce in the hills, ascending to no great elevation ; but it is 

 found in vast numbers in the plains ; at least such is my ex- 

 perience in the Tonghoo and Rangoon districts. 



About the middle of October they invade gardens where 

 there ha]3pen to be guava trees in fruit, by hundreds, and make 

 a terrible noise. 



2. Paljjornis torquatus. 



I only once met with this Parakeet, and then on the lower 

 slopes of the Karen hills. It must be rare, although I 

 can give no reason for its being so. 



6. Pal^ornis melanorhynchus. 



Palceornis melanorlixjnchus, Wagler. 



The allied species which Mr. Blyth mentions (J. A. S. B. 

 1875, p. 57), from the Tenasserim provinces, must have been 

 founded on females of the common red-breasted Parakeet. 

 In a large series of some sixty or seventy specimens from 

 India, the Andaman Islands, the Tenasserim provinces, and 

 other parts of British Burma, all the females (whose sex has 

 been so determined) are in the plumage which Blyth describes 

 as that of the allied race, but none of the males, with one 

 exception, a black-billed adult, marked '' male " by Mr. Lim- 

 borg. This specimen being the only adult male with both 

 mandibles black out of a very large series, inclines me to think 

 that Mr. Limborg^s determination was incorrect. From 

 Blyth^s statement (p. 58) it would appear that he had never 

 seen males of his allied race ; for he surmises that the male 

 will be found to possess a coral-red maxilla. 



12. TiNNUNCULUS ALAUDARIUS. 



The Kestrel is very abundant in Karen-nee, where the 

 rocky precipices afford it good nesting-places. It is by no 

 means common in the plains. 



* The numbers are those of Blyth's Catalogue (J. A. S. B. 1875). 



