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Palaeornis cyanocephalus, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 5 (part.) ; Gould, 

 Birds of Asia, i, pi. 3 ; Blyth Sf Wald. Birds Burm. p. 55 ; 

 Hume 'Sf Bar. S. F. vi, p. 118; Anders. Yunimn Exp., Aves, 

 p. 568 ; Hume, Cat. no. 149 bis ; id. S. F. xi, p. 55 ; Bingham, 

 S. F. ix, p. 160 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 145 ; id. in Hume's N. 8f E. 

 2nd ed. iii, p. 88 ; nee Psittacus cyanocephalus, L. 



Palseornis rosa, Jerd. B. I. i, p. 259 (part.) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. 

 XX, p. 453. 



Palseoruis bengalensis, Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 6 ; Hume, S. F. ii, 

 pp. 9, 16 ; iii, p. 56 ; v, p. 21 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 308 



Kyay-ta-ma, Burmese. 



Coloration very similar to that of P. cyanocepJialus. In the 

 male the forehead and cheeks are rosy pink, not red, passing on the 

 occiput into greyish lilac ; the rump and hind-neck like the back ; 

 the red spot on the wing-coverts darker ; the tail paler blue ; the 

 tips of the middle tail-feathers yellowish. In the female the head 

 is greyer and paler, the yellow collar less distinct, and the red 

 spot on the wing-coverts is present as in the male, though smaller. 

 In both sexes the plumage above and below is a purer green and 

 less yellow, and the axillaries and under wing-coverts are green 

 and not bluish green. 



Length about 13-5 ; tail 7 ; wing 5-5 ; tarsus -55 ; bill from 

 cere to tip -65. In the female the tail is generally rather 

 shorter. 



Distribution. From the base of the Himalayas in Eastern Nepal, 

 Sikhim, and Assam to Tavoy, but not apparently further south. 

 To the eastw^ard this species ranges into Cochin China, Siam, and 

 Southern China, 



Habits, 6)'c. Similar to those of P. cyanocephalus. The eggs white, 

 four in number, and measuring about -96 by '82, are laid in 

 February and March. 



Psittacus rosa of Boddaert was founded on the " Perruche de 

 Mahe " of the ' Planches Enluminees,' and this figure, like the 

 " Eose-headed Eing Parrakeet" of Edwards, the type of Gmelin's 

 P. hengalensis, was clearly taken from the present species, not 

 from the Western bird. 



1141. Palaeornis schisticeps. The Slaty-headed Paroquet. 



Palaeornis schisticeps, Hodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 178 (1836) ; Blyth, 



Cat. p. 5 ; id. J.A.S. B. xix, p. 232 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 615 ; 



Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 261 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 20 ; 



Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 411 ; Jerdo7i, Ibis, 1872, p. 6 ; Hume, S. F. 



ii, p. 17 ; xi, p. 56 ; id. Cat. no. 150 ; Sctdly, S. F. viii, p. 242 ; 



Oates in Hume's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 89; Sharpe, Yark. 



Miss., Birds, p. 114 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx, p. 456. 

 Palaeornis hodgsoni, Finsch, Papag. ii, p. 50 (1868). 



Pahdri tuiya, H. (Mussooree) ; Madana Suga, Nepal ; Gagi of 

 Calcutta bird-dealers. 



Coloration. Male. Head dark lavender (bluish slaty) ; chin and 



