LORIINZ—PICIN 2. 111 
The Blue-winged Paroquet is common on the Ghats to the 
west of Belgaum, and it also occurs on the Sahyadri range quite 
as far north as Khandalla. 
It does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 
Sus-Famity, Loriine. 
Bill compressed, small or moderate, slightly curved; the mar- 
gin of the upper mandible sometimes sinuated, and the notch 
obsolete ; the lower mandible slender, conic, much longer than 
high. 
Genus, Loriculus, Blyth. 
Bill rather small, gently curving from the base; the upper 
mandible lengthened, slightly sinuated at the margin, moderate- 
ly hooked, and tapering to a fine point; lower mandible small ; 
Wings nearly as long as the tail; first and second quill longest ; 
tail short, even, or barely rounded. 
Loriculus vernalis, Sparrm. 
1£3.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p- 265; Butler, Deccan and 
South Mahratta country ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 384. 
THE InpIAN LorRIQuET. 
Length, 5:5 to 5°75; expanse, 8°75 to 10-25; wing, 3°4 to 3°75; 
tail, 15 to 1:81; tarsus, 0°3 to 0°35 ; bill from gape, 0°45 to 0:5, 
Bill dark yellow to plumbeous; irides pale yellow; legs and 
feet leaden to plumbeous. ; 
Above grass-green, darker on the wing-coverts and scapulars, 
paler and yellowish beneath; the wings and tail blue-green ; 
rump and upper tail-coverts dull deep red; wings and tail 
beneath pale bluish; chin and throat, in the male, tinged with 
verdigris-blue. 
The Indian Lorikeet is a cold weather visitant to the forests 
of the Sahyadri Range as far north at least as Khandalla, and it 
has been observed at Ratnagiri, Dharwar and in the Goa forests, 
but it is absent from all other portions of the district. 
Famity, Picide. 
Bill moderate and long, straight, angular, wedge-like ; tongue 
long, extensile ; wings moderate, or rather long ; tail of twelve 
feathers, ten of them with shafts, thick and stiff, the outermost 
pair minute ; feet with the toes in pairs, one toe sometimes 
wanting. 
SUB-FAMILY, Picine, Gray. 
Bill perfectly wedge-shaped, compressed ; culmen straight ; the 
lateral ridge well marked, more or less median ; gonys long; the 
outer posterior toe longer than the anterior one ; wings rather 
long. 
