108 PALHORNINZA. 
Sus-FAMILYy, Paleornine, Vigors. 
Bill moderate; upper mandible moderately hooked; under 
mandible short; tail very long, wedge-shaped, the feathers 
narrow and pointed ; tarsus moderate. 
Genus, Paleornis, Vigors. : 
Bill short; culmen rounded, well curved, toothed, and-with the 
tip acute, not much deeper than it is long; lower mandible short ; 
wings long, with the second and third quills sub-equal and 
longest; tail very long, cuneate; the feathers narrow, almost 
linear, with their tips obtuse, and the two middle feathers in 
general exceeding the others. 
Palezornis eupatria, Zin. 
147.—Paleornis alexandri, Lin.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
I, p. 256; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 457; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. ~ 
Tae ALEXANDRINE Paroquet. 
Length, 21 ; wing, 8°25; tail, 11°5; bill at gape, 1:25. 
Bill deep red, yellowish beneath; irides pale yellow; feet 
plumbeous. 
Adult male, green, brilliant emeraldine on the head and face, 
duller on the back, paler beneath, inclining to dingy on the 
breast and yellowish on the chin and lower.tail-coverts ; quills 
bluish; the inner edge of the inner webs dusky; tail with 
the two centre feathers bright green at their base, pale 
bluish-green for the remaining two-thirds, and tipped yellowish ; 
the outer feathers light green on the outer webs, yellowish- 
green internally; a black stripe from the base of the lower 
mandible crossing round behind the ears, and a demi-collar 
of peach-rose color on the nape and sides of the neck; in front of 
this collar the feathers are glaucous; a dark red spot on the 
shoulders of the wings, and some of the feathers of the wing- 
coverts and scapulars narrowly edged with dusky ; a narrow line 
from the nostrils to the eye tinged with black. 
The female wants the collar of the male, and is generally less 
brightly colored. 
The Alexandrine Paroquet is not uncommon onthe Vindhian 
range and the jungles adjacent ; and it also occurs not infrequent- 
ly in the better wooded portions of Rajpootana and Central India ; 
one was obtained at Mount Aboo by Captain Butler. It does not 
occur either in the Deccan or in any part of Sind. 
Palzornis torquatus, Bodd. 
148.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 257; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. HI, p. 457; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 884; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 112; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 
