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This species appears to differ from the other Barbets in habits. Mr. 

 Davison says : " For a Barbet this species has a most extraordinary note, 

 a low soft whistle. It is generally found in small parties of three or four, 

 sometimes in pairs, and occasionally singly, hunting about the leaves and 

 branches and trunks of trees, peering into every crevice and cranny in the 

 bark, and clinging about in all sorts of positions far more like a Tit than 

 a Barbet. Its food consists quite as much of insects as of fruits. It is a 

 forest-bird." 



Order V. PSITTACI. 

 Family PSITTACID^E. 



Subfamily PAL^ORNITHIN^E. 

 Genus PALJEORNIS, Vigors. 



522. PAL530RNIS INDOBURMANICUS. 

 THE LARGE BURMESE PAROQUET. 



Palaeornis alexandri (Z.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 257 (part.) ; SI. $ Wald. B. Burm. 

 p. 54. Palaeornis eupatrius (i.), Finsch, Die Papageien, ii. p. 11 (part.). 

 Palaeornis magnirostris (Ball), Hume, S. F. iii. p. 65 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. 

 p. 307; Oates, S. F. v. p. 143 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 453; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 117. Palaeornis indoburmanicus, Hume, S. F. vii. p. 458, 

 viii. p. 86 ; Bin g ham, S. F. ix. p. 159 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 189. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, lores and feathers round the eyes 

 brilliant green; sides of the head green, tinged with yellow; chin and 

 throat sparingly covered with black feathers ; the extreme base of the 

 throat yellowish ; the black of the throat narrowly produced upwards on 

 either side of the neck ; a brilliant peach-rose collar round the back and 

 sides of the neck ; the general colour of the plumage green, duller and 

 tinged with yellow below, most brilliant on the back and wings; the 

 primaries and secondaries with the inner edges of the inner webs brown ; 

 wing-coverts green, with the concealed inner webs chiefly brown; the 



