468 PS1TTACID/E. 



Sir. F. ix. p. 161. Psittacus cyanocephalus, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 14. 

 Psittacus rosa, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Col. p. 53. Psittacus bengalensis, Gmel., Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 325. Palaeornis rosa, Jerd., B. Ind, i. p. 259 (part). Palaeornis 

 bengalensis, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 16; iii. p. 56; Oatts, Sir. F.v'ri. p. 46 ; *W., 

 B.Br. Burm. ii. p. 145. The BURMESE ROSE-HEADED PAROQUET. 



Head, including the ear coverts, rosy pink, changing to bluish on the crown 

 and nape ; a black stripe from each side of the lower mandible, covering the 

 throat and continued as a collar round the neck ; upper back, scapulars and 

 wings green ; lower plumage tinged with yellow ; a patch of deep maroon on the 

 median wing coverts ; primaries and secondaries dusky on their inner webs and 

 the outer web of the first primary ; rest of the quills green on their outer webs ; 

 under wing coverts bright green. Central tail feathers blue, tipped with 

 yellow, others green on the outer webs, yellowish on the inner, and all tipped with 

 bright yellow. The female has the head plum-blue, the black on the throat and 

 collar are absent, and the wing spot is less conspicuous. Upper mandible 

 orange yellow ; lower black ; irides yellow ; legs grey. " 



Length 13 5 inches ; tail 8 ; wing 5*5 ; tarsus 0*5 ; bill from gape 0-65. 



Hab. British Burmah, ranging through the Indo- Burmese countries into 

 India, where it occurs in Bengal and along the lower ranges of the Himalayas 

 as far as Nepaul. Breeds in February and March. Eggs, pure white, four in 

 number. 



1095. Palaeornis rosa (Bodd.}, Jerd., B Ind. \. p. 259, No. 149. 



Palaeornis purpureus, P. L. S. Mull., Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 1 1 ; id., Nests and 

 Eggs Ind. B. p. 1 16. Psittacus rosa, Bodd, pi. Enl. 192 et 888. The 

 WESTERN ROSE-HEADED PAROQUET. 



Very similar to P. cyanocephalus, except that the rump and lower back are 

 bluish ; also the under wing coverts and the outer webs of the next pair of 

 feathers to the central pair ; the outer webs of the first and second primaries 

 are narrowly edged with pale yellow and the tips of the central tail feathers 

 are white and not yellow ; the crown and nape too are more lilac than bluish, 

 and the under surface of the body a pale yellowish green. 



Length. 14 to 15 inches; tail 8-5 ; wing 5*25. 



Hab. Throughout India, extending into the Himalayas and Assam, also 

 Ceylon. On the Malabar Coast it is extremely common ; also on the Eastern 

 Ghauts, the Carnatic, Northern Circars, Central India, Midnapoor, and 

 Lower Bengal. Breeds, according to Hume, throughout the plains of Conti- 

 nental India, high up on Mount Aboo, also throughout the salt range and the 

 lower ranges of the Himalayas, up to heights of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, from 

 Murree to the Ganges. They commonly lay in April, excavate holes for 

 themselves, and lay from 4 to 6, pure white, but rather soiled, glossless eggs, 

 varying in length from 0*9 to PO5 inches, and in breadth from o 75 to 

 0-86 inch. 



