142 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



The Rose-ringed Paroquet is found in flocks of considerable size, mostly 

 in the neighbourhood of cultivation, in clearings and on the outskirts of 

 forests. It is more frequently caged by the Burmese than any other 

 species of Paroquet. 



It breeds in January and February in the holes of trees, and lays either 

 four or five white eggs. 



524. PAKSEORNIS FINSCHIL 



FINSCH'S PAROQUET. 



Palseornis finschi, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 509 ; Wold, in Bl. B. Burm. p. 55 ; Hume fy 

 Lav. S. F. vi. p. 119 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 160 j Oates, 

 S. F. x. p. 139. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape and sides of the head slaty 

 blue ; chin and throat black, produced as a half-collar up the sides of the 

 neck ; general colour of the plumage green, yellower below ; the portion 

 of the neck next the slaty blue of the head tinged with verdigris ; median 

 wing-coverts with a patch of red, forming a conspicuous spot tertiaries 

 wholly green ; primaries and secondaries with the outer webs dark green, 

 edged very narrowly with yellowish, the inner webs brown; under wing- 

 coverts bluish green ; basal half of central tail-feathers lavender-blue, the 

 edges at the extreme base green; terminal half pale lilac tipped with yel- 

 low ; the other tail-feathers light green on the outer webs, yellow on the 

 inner ; the tips of both webs yellow. 



I have not been able to examine a female of this species. Of the allied 

 species, P. schisticeps, Dr. Jerdon says that in the female the wing-spot is 

 barely indicated, and Mr. Hume that it is always absent. The sexes do 

 not appear to differ in other respects. 



The young, as in the allied species, probably have the black on the 

 throat and collar wanting, and the head greenish. 



Legs and feet pale dirty green ; upper mandible orange-vermilion, tipped 

 yellowish ; lower mandible pale yellow ; hides usually creamy white, but in 

 some specimens grey, with a fine inner ring of golden yellow ; in others 

 pale brown, with an outer ring of white. (Davison.) 



Length 16 to 18 inches, tail 9 to 12, wing 6, tarsus '6, bill from gape 

 8. The female is apparently smaller only in respect to total length and 

 length of tail, the latter, according to Mr, Davison, measuring about 

 8-5. 



Mr. Blyth (B. Burm. p. 55) records P. schisticeps from the Arrakan 

 hills. The nearly allied P. finschii had not at that time been discriminated, 



