260 PSITTACIDJE. 



1149. Psittinus incertus. The Little Malayan Parrot. 



Psittacus incertus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xviii, pi. 769 (c. 1807^. 

 Psittacus malaccensis, apud Lath. 2nd. Orn. i, p. 130 (1790) ; nee 



Psittinus malaccensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 789 (1842) ; Horsf. 



Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 608; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 6; id. $ Wold. {Birds 



Burm. p. 58. 



Tanygnathus malaccensis. Blyth, Cat. p. 3. 

 Psittinus incertus, Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 121, 500: Hume, 



Cat. no. 153 ter ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 147 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. 



xx, p. 501. 



Coloration. Male. Head and neck bluish grey, becoming bright 

 cobalt-blue on the forehead and vertex ; upper back and scapulars 

 blackish brown with an olive tinge ; wings outside green, a large 

 deep red patch on the smaller secondary-coverts, most of the other 

 coverts and the quills conspicuously edged with greenish yellow : 

 outer greater primary-coverts blue, edge of wing yellow, winglet- 

 feathers with bluish edges ; first primary and inner webs of the 

 others blackish brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 cobalt-blue; median tail-feathers dark green, the other feathers 

 yellowish green above, yellow beneath ; chin whitish ; breast olive- 

 grey, passing into blue on the middle of the abdomen and green 

 round the vent ; wing-lining and axillaries crimson. 



Female. Head and neck ruddy brown, yellowish at the sides 

 and below ; remainder of upper plumage green, washed with blue 

 on the rump ; lower parts yellowish green ; wings, including wing- 

 lining and axillaries, and tail as in males, but the red patch on the 

 wing-coverts is smaller. 



Young birds are deep green above and below, with the exception 

 of the crimson wing-lining and a blue patch on the lower back. 



In adult males the upper mandible is orange-vermilion, lower 

 dusky or dull reddish brown, in females both are usually whitish ; 

 irides creamy white, eyelids and cere greenish brown or dusky 

 green ; legs and feet pale dirty green (Davisori). 



Length about 7*5 ; tail 1-9 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -55 ; bill from 

 cere -7. 



Distribution. Throughout the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo, ranging into Southern Tenasserirn as far north as Tavoy 

 and Nwalabo. 



Habits, fyc. To parts of Tenasserini this Paroquet is a seasonal 

 visitant, arriving about April. It probably, however, only moves 

 from one part of the country to another at" no great distance. It 

 goes about in small flocks, and has a sharp whistling note. The 

 nidification has not been observed. 



Oenua LORICULUS, Blyth, 1849. 



Bill much smaller and longer comparatively than in Palceornis, 

 and much more compressed, the culmen less curved ; the depth of 

 the two mandibles together less than the length from cere to 

 point ; tail short, slightly rounded. 



