464 PSITTACID^:. 



tinged with bluish ; on the lower surface the throat has a patch of verdigris 

 blue ; the lower plumage is green, with a yellowish tinge on the breast, and the 

 under side of the wing is blue ; the under wing coverts shining green. The 

 female has not the blue throat patch, Bill coral red, yellowish at tip ; cere 

 red ; irides pale yellowish ; legs pa-le orange. 



Length. 5-5 inches; tail 1*9; wing 3-5; tarsus 0-4 ; bill from gape 0-45. 



Ha&. The sub-Himalayan region, Assam, Sylhet, Sikkim, Eastern 

 Bengal, Bhootan and the Andamans, British Burmah, the Deccan, Palani hills, 

 Khan'dalla ghauts, the jungles of Malabar, Travancore, and the Southern 

 Mahratta Country. Over all these places it is found in small flocks. It is said 

 by Jerdon to be fond of drinking the toddy of the cocoanut palm, and to be 

 sometimes caught stupefied from the effects. They are much prized as cage 

 birds, and are sold as Love birds. The birds breed wherever they are 

 found, laying 35 eggs in holes and hollows of trees. Eggs dirty white, and 

 entirely glossless. Size 0*7 to 0*75 in length and 0*58 to O'6 in breadth. 



Sub-Family. PAL^EORNIN^:. Vigors. 



Bill moderate, upper mandible hooked, the tip overhanging the under man- 

 dible ; tail long, the feathers narrow and pointed. 



Gen. Palseornis. Vigors. 



Bill large, under mandible small ; cere narrow ; 2nd quill of wing longest ; 

 two middle feathers of tail very long and slender ; culmen rounded, toothed. 



1089- Palseornis fasCiatUS (P. L. S. Muller), Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs Ind. B. p. 1 18 ; id., Sir. F. ii. p. 20 ; iii. p. 56 ; vii. p. 163 ; viii. p. 86 ; 

 Scully, Sfr. F. viii. p. 245 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 160 ; Oates, Str. F. x. 

 p. 190; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 143. Psittacus fasciatus, P. L. S. Muller, 

 Natursyst. Suppl. p. 74. Psittacus vibrissa, Bodd., Tabl. PL Enl. p. 30- 

 Palseornis melanorhynchus, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. p. 511 ; Finsch, Die Papageien 

 i. p. 70; Wald, Ibis, 1873, p. 297 ; 1874, p. 290; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 57 ; 

 Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 308 ; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 2 1 ; Wardlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 453 ; Hume and Davison, vi. p. 120. Palaeornis Javanicus (Osbeck), 

 apud Jerd., B. Ind. p. 262. Palaeornis Lathami, Finsch, Die Papageien ii. 

 p. 66. The RED-BREASTFD PAROQUET. 



Adult Male. A narrow black frontal band at the base of the upper man- 

 dible extending to the eyes ; above this the forehead, crown, nape, cheeks, 

 and ear coverts black ; a broad black band on each side of the chin and upper 

 throat, extending behind to the ear coverts ; an emerald green collar on the 

 hind neck ; plumage of the upper surface of the body dark green ; the 

 centre tail feathers blue, tipped yellowish and edged with greenish at the base ; 

 other tail feathers bluish on the outer webs and green on the inner ones; lesser 

 wing coverts green ; a conspicuous patch of bright yellow on the wing ; quills 

 brown, exteriorly margined with green ; under wing coverts green ; plumage of 



