268 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
(b) Head and neck not green, or not wholly green. 
(1) Head, in males red with a purple bloom, in 
females bluish-gray ; upper back green. 
P. cyanocephalus (Blossom-headed Paroquet). 
(2) Crown and upper back gray ; a bright green 
collar on neck. 
P. calthrope (Layard’s Paroquet). 
B.—Tail short ; size small; length about 5°5. 
Loriculus indicus (Ceylonese Loriquet). 
PALMHORNIS EUPATRIA (Blanford, Vol. III., p. 247 : 
Legge, p. 168). 
The Large Ceylonese Paroquet. 
Description —Male: Upper plumage grass-green, most 
vivid on the forehead, lores, and rump, and darker on the 
wings ; a faint dark stripe from the nostril to the eye ; a rose- 
pink collar round back and sides of neck, met by a broad black 
stripe, which runs from the side of the neck to the lower 
mandible. The nape just in front of the collar has a grayish- 
blue bloom. A large dark-red patch on the secondary wing 
coverts ; the first primary and the inner webs of the remaining 
quills are dark brown. The central tail feathers pass from 
green at the base into verditer blue, the tips being yellow. 
Lower plumage dull pale-green, brightening a little on the 
flanks and abdomen ; wing lining and lower tail coverts pale 
green ; lower surface of tail dull yellow. 
Females and young lack the rose collar and black mandi- 
bular stripe. 
Bill deep red, paler at the tip; iris pale yellow with a bluish- 
gray inner circle ; legs and feet greenish or grayish lead colour. 
Length about 19; wing about 8; tail up to 11°5; tarsus 
‘75; bill from cere 1. Females rather smaller. 
Distribution.—Peculiar to Ceylon, but closely allied forms 
with probably only sub-specific differences occur throughout 
the greater part of India and Burma. It is widely, but rather 
locally, distributed throughout the low-country, and is most 
numerous in the maritime districts of the northern half of 
the Island ; rare above 1,000 feet, but occasionally found at 
higher elevations. 
