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the Burmese has the under side of the wing as pure a 
green as the upper. 
The Burmese Plum-head seems to have much the same 
habits as the Indian, which is far more of a jungle-bird 
than the Ring-neck, though it sometimes comes into 
cultivated land and makes itself a nuisance. 
It is even swifter on the wing than the Ring-neck, and 
has a much prettier note, which is too musical to be 
called a screech. It breeds from March to May; the 
Burmese bird’s breeding-season is earlier in the year. 
Both species are fairly commonly sold in the Calcutta 
markets, but the Eastern or pale-headed birds are usu- 
ally the commonest, though numbers of the true Indian 
Plum-head can be had at the beginning of the cold 
weather. It is, however, very scarce in the English market 
at the present time, though a good many of the Burmese 
species have been sent home, and this kind has been 
bred by Dr. A. G. Butler in an aviary. 
As aviary birds these lovely Parakeets are particularly 
desirable, their beautiful colours, graceful form, and com- 
paratively sweet notes being great recommendations. 
Yellow varieties are now and then to be seen, and those 
I have seen have generally had pink heads and red eyes ; 
Mr. D. Ezra had a very beautiful specimen when I left 
India, but it was to my mind less handsome than a yellow 
Ring-neck which he also had. 
Tue Rosewua (Platycercus eximius)* is a good example 
of the broad-tailed Australian Parakeets I mentioned in 
Chapter I. The figure (Fig. 3) on Plate VII will give some 
idea of its markings, but the actual bird is quite a 
F, GAB Ng 
