108 PAL.EORNIN.E. 



SUB-FAMILY, Palseorninse, Vigors. 



Bill moderate ; upper mandible moderately hooked ; under 

 mandible short ; tail very long, wedge-shaped, the feathers 

 narrow and pointed ; tarsus moderate. 



GENUS, Palseornis, Vigors. 



Bill short ; culmen rounded, well curved, toothed, and with the 

 tip acute, not much deeper than it is long ; lower mandible short ; 

 wings long, with the second and third quills sub-equal and 

 longest ; tail very long, cuneate ; the feathers narrow, almost 

 linear, with their tips obtuse, and the two middle feathers in 

 general exceeding the others. 



Palseornis eupatria, Lin. 



147. Palceornis alexandri, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. 

 I, p. 256 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol . Ill, p. 457 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 



THE ALEXANDRINE PAROQUET. 



Length, 21 ; wing, 8'25 ; tail, 11'5 ; bill at gape, 1-25. 



Bill deep red, yellowish beneath ; irides pale yellow ; feet 

 plumbeous. 



Adult male, green, brilliant emeraldine on the head and face, 

 duller on the back, paler beneath, inclining to dingy on the 

 breast and yellowish on the chin and lower tail-coverts ; quills 

 bluish ; the inner edge of the inner webs dusky ; tail with 

 the two centre feathers bright green at their base, pale 

 bluish-green for the remaining two-thirds, and tipped yellowish ; 

 the outer feathers light green on the outer webs, yellowish- 

 green internally ; a b lack stripe from the base of the lower 

 mandible crossing round behind the ears, and a demi-collar 

 of peach-rose color on the nape and sides of the neck ; in front of 

 this collar the feathers are glaucous ; a dark red spot on the 

 shoulders of the wings, and some of the feathers of the wing- 

 coverts and scapulars narrowly edged with dusky ; a narrow line 

 from the nostrils to the eye tinged with black. 



The female wants the collar of the male, and is generally less 

 brightly colored. 



The Alexandrine Paroquet is not uncommon on the Vindhian 

 range and the jungles adjacent ; and it also occurs not infrequent- 

 ly in the better wooded portions of Rajpootana and Central India ; 

 one was obtained at Mount Aboo by Captain Butler. It does not 

 occur either in the Deccan or in any part of Sind. 



Palseornis torquatus, Eodd. 



148. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 257 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 457 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 384 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 112 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 



