250 PSITTACIDJE. 



1144. Palaeornis calthropae. Layard's Paroquet. 



Palseornis calthrapae, Layard, apud Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 800 

 (1849) ; id. Cat. p. 340; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 294. 



Palseornis calthropte, Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, p. 263 (1854) ; 

 HoldsiVorth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 426 ; Hume, Cat. no. 151 bis ; Legge, 

 Birds Ceyl. p. 177, pi. vi ; Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 282 ; Oates in 

 Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 90 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx r 

 p. 461. 



Allu-girawa, Cingalese. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, lores, and area around each eye 

 bright green ; crown, nape, and sides of head greyish blue ; back 

 and scapulars the same, but paler, sometimes with a greenish wash ; 

 a broad collar round the neck and the lower parts from the throat 

 bright green ; vent and lower tail-coverts yellowish ; chin and a 

 band to the side of the neck, not extending to the back of the neck, 

 black ; the rump is much bluer than the back, and this colour 

 passes gradually into the deep French-blue of the tail-feathers, 

 which are all yellow at the tips and dusky yellow beneath ; outer 

 tail-feathers with a narrow green exterior border; wings green 

 outside, the smaller coverts to the secondaries paler and yellower. 



Female. The green on the face duller and less extended, other- 

 wise like the male. The young is green throughout at first, 

 except that the tail is blue above, then the rump takes a bluish 

 tinge. 



Upper mandible in males coral-red, yellowish at tip, black in 

 females, lower mandible dusky red ; irides yellow or greenish 

 white or white ; legs and feet dusky greenish or plumbeous green 

 or plumbeous (Legge). 



Length about 12 ; tail 6 ; wing 5-5 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from cere 

 to point *7. 



Distribution. Peculiar to Southern and Central Ceylon up to 

 5000 or 6000^ feet above the sea, keeping to the hills and to the 

 forests adjoining them. 



Habits, fyc. Very similar to those of the last species, but the 

 cry is said by Legge to be harsh. The breeding-season commences 

 in January ; the eggs do not appear to have been described. 



1145. Palaeornis fasciatus. The Red-breasted Paroquet. 



Psittacus fasciatus, Mull. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 74 (1776). 

 Psittacus vibrissa, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 30 (1783). 

 Psittacus pondicerianus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 325 (1788). 

 Psittacus mystaceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii, 2, p. 436 (1811). 

 Palseornis melanorhynchus, Wagler, Abh. k. bayer. Ak. Wiss. i, 



p. 511 (1832); Finsch, Papag. ii, p. 70; Walden, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 297; 1874, p. 290; 1875, p. 270; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. 



p. 57 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 308 ; Hume, S. F. v, p. 21 ; Wardl. 



Rams. Ibis, 1877, p. 453 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 120; Anders. 



Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 568. 

 Psittacus nigrirostris, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844), descr. 



nulla ; Calc. Jour. N. H. vii, p. 560. 



