PALZORNINZ. 109 
THE ROSE-RINGED PAROQUET. 
Tota, Hin. 
Length, 16°5 ; wing, 65 to 7; tail, 9°5; bill from gape, 1. 
Bill cherry-red ; irides pale yellow ; feet cinereous. 
Adult male : head and face emerald-green ; a dark line from the 
nostrils to the front of the eye, indistinct round the base of the 
narrow cere ; hind-neck and nape glaucous or light-ashy, succeed- 
ed on the sides of the neck by a black demi-collar meeting under 
the chin and followed by another of a peach-rose color; back, 
scapulars, and tertiaries dull-green ; upper tail-coverts emerald- 
green ; entire under-surface pale green, yellowish towards the 
vent ; primaries, their coverts and secondaries, dark-green, their 
inner webs and under-surface dusky; tail-feathers dark-green, 
their inner webs and under-surface yellowish, the two centre fea- 
thers dark-green at their base, bluish for the remaining two-thirds 
and tipped yellowish, all black shafted; under wing-coverts 
greenish-yellow. 
The female wants the rose collar, but has a bright emeraldine 
narrow green collar in its place. 
The Rose-ringed Paroquet occurs in vast flocks, throughout the 
district; it is a permanent resident, breeding during February 
and March, in holes in trees or stone walls, occasionally under 
roof tiles; when the nest hole is in a tree, it is often two or three 
feet in extent. 
There is no nest ; the eggs, four in number, are deposited on any 
chips that may have accidentally fallen whilst the hole was being 
enlarged ; they are ovalin shape, pure glossless white in color, 
and measure 1‘2 in length by. 0:95 in breadth. 
The absurd attitude and affected manner of the female during 
the courting season in the endeavour to attract the notice of her 
mate is highly entertaining ; the male, on the other hand, seems 
to take little notice of it, beyond rewarding her with an occasional 
kiss. 
Palzornis purpureus, P. Z. 8. Muil. 
149.—Palwornis rosa, Bodd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 
259 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p, 457 ; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 8384; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 
THE ROSE-HEADED PAROQUET. 
Tuia-tota, Hin. 
raga 14 to 155 wing, 5°25; tail,8°5; bill from gape, 0°62 
to 0°7. 
Bill: upper mandible yellow, under dusky ; irides, outer circle 
yellowish-white, inner blue ; legs grey. 
Adult male: the whole head and face pale roseate, tinged with 
plum-bloom posteriorly and inferiorly ; a black spot from the base 
of the lower mandible, uniting into a narrow complete collar, and 
meeting its opposite one at the chin, which is thus broadly black; 
