254 PSITTAOIDjE. 



narrow ring round neck black ; hind-neck and sides of neck behind 

 the black ring bright verdigris-green, passing into the green with 

 a slight yellowish tinge of the back, scapulars, and coverts ; rump 

 a little brighter; a dark red patch on median secondary-coverts; 

 greater coverts and quills darker, the latter yellow at the edges ; 

 bend of wing yellow; median tail-feathers blue in the middle, 

 green at the base and along their edges, and clear yellow for the 

 terminal quarter to half, the other rectrices green on outer webs, 

 yellow on inner and at the tips, all deep yellow beneath ; lower 

 parts from throat light green, lesser and median under wing- 

 coverts bluish green. 



The female wants the red wing-patch. The young is green at 

 first and assumes the cap gradually. 



Upper mandible yellow, tinged with coral-red ; tip and lower 

 mandible yellow ; irides straw-yellow ; orbital skin slaty ; legs 

 dusky green (Jerdon). 



Length about 16; tail 9-5; wing 6*5; tarsus - 6 ; bill from cere 

 to tip 75. Females a little less. 



Distribution. Throughout the Himalayas, below about 8000 feet, 

 from Murree to Bhutan ; more common to the westward. Young 

 specimens from the Khasi hills were referred to this species by 

 Godwin-Austen, but after examining them I do not think they 

 belong either to P. schisticeps or P. finschi. 



Habits, fyc. This is a mountain bird, ascending in summer as 

 high as 10,000 feet, but descending to a low elevation in winter, 

 and breeding in the last half of March, in April, and early in May. 

 The nest is often in natural hollows in trees, but sometimes in 

 holes cut by the bird. The eggs are white, four or five in number, 

 and measure about 1-21 by *92. 



1142. Palaeornis finschi. The Burmese Slaty-headed Paroquet. 



Palseornis finschi, Hume,. 8. F. ii, p. 509; id. Cat. no. 150 bis: 

 Wald. in Blyth's Birds Burnt, p. 55 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 119; Bingham, 8. F. ix, p. 160; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 142; 

 Hartert, J. f. Orn. 1889, p. 431 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx, p. 458. 



Coloration of both sexes similar to that of P. schisticeps, except 

 that the head is paler, the mantle a much yellower green, and 

 the terminal portion of the median tail-feathers dirty pinkish 

 white instead of clear yellow. The middle tail-feathers are, much 

 narrower, and duller in colour throughout. 



Length about 17, tail 11, wing 6 in males'; in females, tail 8, 

 wing 5-8. 



Distribution. Eastern Pegu and Tenasserim ; Oates found what 

 was doubtless this Paroquet abundant in the Pegu hills, it was 

 also found in large numbers by Hartert near Sadiya in Assam. 

 It is probably this species, and not the last, that occurs, according 

 to Blyth (Birds Burm. p. 55), in the Arrakan hills. 



Habits, fyc. Nothing particular recorded. The eggs have not 

 been observed. 



