466 PS1TTACID/E. 



id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 139. Palaeornis Alexandra (Linn.}, Jerd., B. Ind. i. 

 p. 257, No. 147; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 54. Palaeornis eupatrius, 

 (Linn^ Finsch, Die Papageien ii. p. 1 1. (part). Palaeornis magnirostris (Ball), 

 Hume, Sfr. F. iii. p. 55 ; Armstrong, Sir. F. iv. p. 307 ; Oates, Sir. F. v. 

 p. 143; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 453; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. 

 p. 117. Palaeornis sivalensis (Hut ton), Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 115. 

 The LARGE BURMESE PAROQUET. 



General colour green, duller and tinged with yellow beneath, and most 

 brilliant on the forehead, crown, lores, feathers round the eyes, back and wings ; 

 sides of head green, tinged with yellow ; chin and throat with some small black 

 feathers, the base of the latter yellowish ; a black stripe from the base of the 

 throat produced upwards on each side of the neck ; round the neck a peach-rose 

 coloured collar ; prftnaries and secondaries green, the inner edges of the inner 

 webs brown ; wing coverts green ; median wing coverts forming a conspicuous 

 red wing spot; middle tail feathers yellowish at tip, blue-green subterminally for 

 two-thirds and greenish at the base ; other tail feathers green externally and 

 yellowish on their inner webs The female has not the rose collar, and the 

 stripe on each side of the neck is wanting ; the red wing spot is much smaller. 

 Irides and cere yellow ; bill yellow at tip, the remainder red ; legs orange 

 yellow. 



Length. 2 2 to 24 inches ; tail 12 13 ; wings 8 to 8-4 ; tarsus 07 ; bill from 

 gape i'2. 



Hal. Lower Himalayas to Sikkirn, the forests of Malabar, Central and 

 South India, Northern Circars, Carnatic, Deccan, Punjab, British Burmah, and 

 Cochin-China. Breeds during January and February in holes of trees which 

 the birds excavate for themselves, and lay 3 4 white eggs, long ovals, pointed 

 towards one end, and from 1-5 to 1*52 X 0*95 inch in size. Generally found 

 in small colonies. 



1092. Palaeornis schisticeps, Hodgs., As. Res. xix. p. 178; 



Jerd., B. Ind. I. p. 261, No. 150; Str. F. ii. p. 17. Palaeornis Finschi, 

 Hume t Str. F. ii. p. 509; Wald in Blyth' s B. Burm. p. 55 ; Hume and Dav., 

 Str. F. vii.p. 119; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 86, Bingham> Str. F. ix. p. 160 ; 

 Oates, Str. F. x. p. 189; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 142. The SLATY-HEADED 

 PAROQUET. 



General colour green, rather yellowish beneath ; head slaty blue ; chin black 

 also, a narrow black band bordering the slaty blue, produced as a demi-collar up 

 the sides of the neck ; median wing coverts with a red patch forming a conspi- 

 cuous wing spot; primaries and secondaries dark green externally and narrowly 

 edged with yellowish ; their inner webs brown ; tertiaries green ; under wing 

 coverts tinged with blue ; rump and upper tail coverts also tinged with bluish ; 

 central tail feathers slaty blue at base, terminal half pale lilac, tipped with 

 yellowish ; other tail feathers light green externally and yellow on the inner 



