250 , PSITTACID^. 



1138. PalaBornis torquatus. The Rose-ringed Paroquet. 



Psittacus torquatus, Bodd. Tab. PI. Enl. p. 32 (1783). 



Palseornis torquatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 4; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) 



xiii, p. 262 ; Horsf. <§• M. Cat. ii, p. 611 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 257 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 232 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 170 ; 



ii, p. 13; xi, p. 54 ; id. Cat. no. 148 ; Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 55 ; 



fiMme ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 118 ; Leyge, Birds Ceyl. p. 171 ; Oates, 



B. B. ii, p. 141 ; id. in Hume's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 85 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 108 ; Neionham, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. iv, p. 54 ; 



Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx, p. 433. *# 



Tota, Lybar Tata, H. ; Gallar, in N. W. P. ; Tiya, Tiya tota, Beng. ; 

 Ragii, Mahr. ; ChiUuha, Telegu ; Eilli, Tarn. ; Eana giraioa, Cing. ; Kyay- 

 gyot, Burm, 



Fig. 70. — Head of P. torquatus, \. 



Coloration. Male. Very similar to P. eupatria, except that there 

 is no red wing-spot. General colour bright green ; a fine blackish 

 line from nostril to eye ; occiput, nape, and cheeks tinged with 

 pale greyish blue ; a rose collar round the neck except in front ; 

 chin and a band from the mandible to each side of the rose collar 

 black ; smaller and middle upper wing-coverts considerably paler 

 green than the greater coverts and quills ; median tail-feathers 

 green at the base, then bluish grey ; other tail-feathers green on 

 the outer webs, yellow on the inner, all tipped with yellow and 

 dull yellow beneath ; lower parts paler and yellower than upper 

 surface ; wing-lining greenish yellow. 



Female. No black band nor rose collar, but an indistinct emerald- 

 green ring round the neck. Young birds resembles females. 



Bill cherry-red ; irides pale yellow ; feet cinereous (Jerdon). 

 Upper mandible red, lower varying from red to black in different 

 localities (Hume). 



Length about 16-5 ; tail 10 ; wing 6-75 ; tarsus -65 ; bill from 

 cere '85. 



Distribution. Throughout India and Ceylon, and from Assam to 

 Pegu, but not in Tenasserim. This Paroquet is found to the east- 

 ward in Cochin China, but statements of its occurrence in the 

 Malay Peninsula and China are probably due to caged individuals 



