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Dr. Jerclon, his description is erroneous in so far that the wing-patch 

 is not red but yellow, paling to grass-green on the edges. 



" The Madhun Gour Tota breed in the lofty sal forests of the 

 Sub-Himalayan Range, and are peculiarly restricted to this locality 

 when breeding. Any hole in a tree serves for a nest provided it is 

 near the top of the tree, and the eggs are four in number, pure 

 white, and about the size and shape of those of P. torquatus. The 

 breeding-season commences in March, and is carried on till the 

 middle of May, when the young birds leave the nest. Large 

 numbers of them are taken every season when they are yet too 

 young to be able to fly, and carried to the plains, where they are 

 much prized by the natives, learning easily to repeat words and 

 phrases taught them. This Paroquet is generally distributed 

 through the dense and lofty forests, but nowhere is it very 

 common." 



Major Bingham sends the following : " Maoo Reserve, Zammee 

 River, 18th February, 1878. On the march this morning saw a 

 female of Palceornis fasciatus slip out of a hole in a decayed branch 

 of a zirabun tree, about 20 fet-t up. As she sat on a twig close by 

 and seemed loth to leave, I shot her, suspecting there were eggs 

 in the hole J had first seen her quit. And sure enough, on sending 

 up a Karen who cut it open with his dak (knife), he brought me 

 down a single fresh egg, which he found at the bottom of a tunnel 

 some foot or so from the entrance-hole, and which he said lay on 

 the bare wood. The egg is pure white, rather coarse-grained and 

 devoid of gloss. It measures 1-25 by O98." 



I have seen but few specimens of this bird's eggs ; these were 

 broad ovals, somewhat smaller than the average of the eggs of 

 P. torquatus, and, like them, of a dull, glossless white colour. 



Six eggs vary from 1-12 to 1-18 inch in length, and from 0-94 

 to I'O inch in breadth. 



Palaeornis nicobaricus, Gould. The Nicobar Paroquet. 

 Pahrorniu nicobaricus, Gould, Hume, Cat. no. 152 bis. 



Mr. Davison remarks : " On the 17th of February I found on 

 the island of Trinkut, Nicobars, a nest of the Xicobar Paroquet in 

 a hole in a branch of a screw-pine (Pandanus) about 12 feet from 

 the ground ; the nest contained two young birds, one well covered 

 with feathers, the other a tiny little thing, with its eyes closed and 

 without the trace of a feather. There was no lining to the hole, 

 only a little powder from the decayed wood. Again, on the 2nd 

 March, I found a nest also on the island of Triukut, situated about 

 30 feet above the ground, in a hole in a branch of a large forest 

 tree ; this nest contained two very young birds. On the 17th of 

 April, at Port Mouat, Andamans, I saw a female (P. tytleri) feeding 

 two young ones that were sitting on the edge of a hole in an old 

 dry mangrove stump about 12 feet high. As I did not require the 

 birds, I did not climb up to the nest, and so cannot say whether 



