PAL^OENIS. 247 



/. Crown and nape green; sides of head 

 including ear-coverts brick-red. 



h" Breast green with a bluish tinge .... P. tytleri 6 , p. ^59. 



A-". Mandibular band dark green P- tytleri ? , p. 259. 



1134. Palseornis eupatria. The Large Ceylonese Pfcroquet. 

 Psittacuseupatria,imr...Sy^^.^^.y-140(™^^^^ 

 Palteornis alexandri, apud Layard, A.M.N. H. (J) xiii, p. ^bz,nec 

 Psittacus alexandri, Xi7?«. .-.o •• n -^ r-^/r^^iA?. 



Pal^ornis eupatria, Hume, S. R i, p. 4:33.; u , p . 9 ;^'^-^«/-g°.l/^ 

 Leqae, Birds Ceyl. p. 168 ; Parker, Ibis, 18«0, p. 183 Oa^es m 

 Hwm's N. ^- J?. 2nd ed. iii, p. 82 (partim) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. 

 XX, p. 435. 

 Lahu yiraioa, Cing. 



Coloration. Male. Above grass-green, much _ brighter on the 

 forehead and lores, and rather darker on the w^gs ; a dark hne 

 from nostril to eye a rose-pink collar round the back and sides oi 

 neck nape ust in front of collar more or less tmged bluish grey ; 

 cMn(th?nV feathered) and a stripe from the lower mandible to 

 the rose collar black a large deep red patch on t^e secondary 

 x^ng-coverts ; rump rather brighter green than the back; median 

 tail feathers passing from green at the base mto verditer-blue, and 

 hef intoT^^^^^^^^ the tips ; throat and breast dull pa e green ; 



abdomen brighter ; lower surface of quills and larger under wmg- 

 coverTs greyish brown, lesser under wing-coverts bright green; tad- 



''^'^Zut:iylj^Z^^ either rose collar or black mandibular 



'^'^Bili deep red ; iris pale yellow, with a bluish-grey inner circle ,- 



'"L'ngtf a'o^t 19 ; tail 11-5 ; wing 8 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from cere at 

 gape to point 1 ; depth of upper mandible (culmen to gape) 75. 



^^S«iot Throughout the greater part of Ceylon . Whether 

 the Paroquets observed in the Carnatic by Jerdon and m Mysore 

 bv Taylor, and the individual taken from a Hhahin falcon by 

 Jerdon in Malabar, belonged to this or the next species is 

 uncertain. There is no specimen from Southern India in the 

 Sh Museum (including the Hume) collection The measure- 

 ments given by Jerdon agree with P. ne^xdemts, the cinereous feet 



with P. eupatria. . , , 



This and the following three species are merely races or sub- 

 species of one weU-marked form. P. eupatria is smaller than the 

 others and has a smaller bill. . ^■^„„ 



Habits &-C. The habits of all four races are precisely simdar. 

 They keen to well-wooded tracts, and are social birds livnig in 

 colonies and generally flying in flocks, often uttering a shrill call 



