PALJEORNIS. 257 



Palaeornis barbatus, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 6 (partiin) ; id. J. A. S. B. 



xix, p. 233 (partiin) ; nee Psittacus barbatus, Gm. 

 Pakeornis osbecki, apud Horxf. .V M. Cut. ii, p. 022 (partim) ; me 



Psittacus osbecki, Lath. 



Palseornis vibrisca, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 163 ; id. Birds Burm. p. 56. 

 Palaeovms javanicus, apudJerdon, B. I. i, p. 262 ; Blyth, Ibis, 186:3. 



p. 5; 1866, p. 353 (part); Godw.-Awt. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 



p. 97 ; Ball, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 279 ; id. S. F. i, p. 60 ; 



Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 343; nee Psittacus javanicus, Osbeck. 

 Palaeornis fasciatua, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, ii, p. 143; Hume. N. & E. 



T. 1 1 Q . .V7 V V ;; , ~ OA ion ru>r ::: . , c\04 . : . 



2nd ed. Hi, p. 90 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. ' Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 574; 

 v. p. 559 ; vii, p. 376 ; id. Cat'. B. M. xx, p. 464. 



Madna, Kdjla, Gour Tota, II. ; Imrit Bhela, Nepal. 



Coloration. Male. A narrow frontal band extending to each eye 

 and a broad stripe from the base of the lower mandible to each 

 side of the neck black, the latter not prolonged to form a collar ; 

 chin sullied white; rest of head purplish grey, washed with 

 greenish on the lores above the frontal band and round the eyes ; 

 hind-neck and sides of neck bright green ; back, scapulars, and 

 rump duller ; wings green ontside, with a large yellow patch on the 

 median and greater secondary-coverts ; first primary black, the 

 others green, all with narrow yellow borders on both sides ; 

 middle tail-feathers blue, with broad green edges towards the base 

 and yellowish-green extreme tips ; outer tail-feathers bluish green ; 

 throat and breast vinaceous red, more or less tinged with blue 

 anteriorly ; abdomen bluish green ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 yellowish green, tail dusky yellow beneath. 



The female has the head duller and more tinged with green 

 and the breast is without any bluish wash. Young birds are green 

 throughout. 



Upper mandible in males coral-red, the tip yellow ; in females 

 and young birds black, lower mandible always brownish black, 

 except, according to Hume, in very young (nestling) males, which 

 have sometimes, at all events, both mandibles orange-red (perhaps 

 a few very young females also have reddish bills). Irides light 

 yellow ; legs dusky greenish yellow. 



Length about 15; tail 8-5; wing 6'5; tarsus *7; bill from 

 cere "85. 



Distribution. Throughout the lower Himalayas up to about 

 5000 feet, as far west as Kumaun, also in Assam and the ranges 

 to the southward, Tipperah, Cachar, Manipur, the whole of Burma, 

 the Andaman Islands (not the Nicobars), Cambodia, Cochin China, 

 and parts of Southern China. This species is represented in Java by 

 an allied form, the true P. alexandri, distinguish.-il chiefly by having 

 the whole bill red in both sexes, and by smaller size. 



Habits, ^c. An inhabitant of well- wooded tracts of count r\. 

 visiting clearings, rice-fields, &c. in quest of food. Its cry is 

 much less harsh than that of P. i<>,'<jtmti'js or /'. eupatrius. Ii 



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