4G2 PSITTACID^E. 



side of the base of the lower mandible, and a broad creamy buff streak on each 

 side of the neck ; upper plumage, including the wings and tail, brown, narrowly 

 barred with buff, interrupted on the quills and tail ; upper breast blackish, 

 narrowly barred with buff; remainder of lower plumage buffy brown, barred 

 with lighter buff, the bars almost obsolete on the abdomen ; under wing coverts 

 buff. T\iQ/emale wants the crimson patch below the sides of the lower man- 

 dible. (Oates.) Legs and feet dull or brownish green; irides brown; bill 

 plumbeous blue below, black above. 



Length 8 inches ; tail 3 ; wing 4-1 ; tarsus O'S ; bill from gape ri. 



Hab. British Burmah, Tenasserim; also the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and 

 Borneo. 



ORDER. PSITTACI. 

 Toes in pairs; bill, wings and tail various. 



Family. PSITTACID^:. 



Bill large and powerful, thick, and strong, much arched or curved, some- 

 times notched, the hooked tip overhanging the lower mandible, which is short 

 and obtusely rounded in front with a cutting edge ; base of bill covered with a 

 naked skin, in which are situated the small round nasal orifices ; wings 

 generally rounded and moderately long ; 2nd quill usually the longest ; tail 

 various, either short and graduated, or with 2 3 elongated middle feathers ; 

 tarsi short, scutate ; toes zygodactyle (in pairs) ; claws curved. The birds com- 

 prised in this family are noted for the beauty of their plumage. They are 

 sub-divided chiefly according to the form of the bill and tail into several 

 groups (i) Psittacinse or true Parrots, with a notched or crenate bill and short 

 tails ; head not crested. (2) Loriinae or Lories, species with gaudy plumage 

 and of small size. (3) Palaeorninae or Parrakeets, with long tails, generally 

 wedge-shaped. (4) Platycerninae, Australian Parrots. (4) The Macaw or 

 Arainae ; and (5) The Cockatuas. 



Sub-family. PSITTACINSE. 



Bill moderately long, arched, and strong, the edge crenated. Head without 

 crest ; tail short. 



Gen. Psittinus- Blyth. 

 General characters of the sub-family. Of small size. 



1087- PsittinUS incertUS (Shaw), Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 25 ; 

 Blyth and Wald. t B. Burm. p. 58; Hume and Dav., Str.F. vi.pp. 120, 500; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 87 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 147. Psittacus incertus, 

 Shaw, Nat. Misc. xviii. pi. 769. Psittacus malaccensis, Lath., Jnd. Orn. i. 

 p. 130. Psittacula incerta, Finsch, Die Papageien iii. p. 612. The MALAYAN 

 PARROT. 



