PALEORNIS  Pondicerianus. 
Pondichery, or Mustachoe Parrakeet. 
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Family Psittacide. 
GENERIC Cuaracter.—Zool. Journ. 2, p. 46.—Less. Man. 2, p. 145. 
SpEcIFIC CHARACTER. 
Green; head pale bluish ; frontal line and stripe on the lower jaw 
black; wings with a central spot of yellowish; breast pale 
red. 
Le Perruche a moustaches. Buffon. Sonn. 27, p. 185, Pl. Enl. 517. 
a poitrine rose. Levai/. Pl. 31. 
P. Pondicerianus. Kuhl, Nova Acta, &c. No. 48%. 
Paleornis Pondicerianus. Vigors. Zool. Journ, 2, p. 54. 
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Tut Ring-necked Parrakeets of India, and the Asiatic 
Islands, are now considered as forming a particular genus. 
The geographic distribution of the group, and the charac- 
ters of the species, have been detailed with much skill and 
classic erudition, in the Zoological Journal. 
Among the numerous ornithological facts, which the 
distinguished liberality of MM. Cuvier and Geoffroy St. 
Hiliare enabled us to ascertain, during a course of study 
at the Royal Museum of Paris, is one that relates to this 
species. Specimens in that noble collection, both from 
Pondichery and Java, enable us to affirm, that the Psit- 
tacus Osbeckii and Pondicerianus of authors, are one and 
the same species. 
Notwithstanding the frequency of this bird in Java, and 
other parts of India, we are completely ignorant of its 
natural history, of those diversified habits, and modes of 
living,—in short, of that knowledge, which gives such an 
animating charm to natural history, which manifests the 
provision of the Almighty for all His creatures, which can 
be known and understood by all, and which prompts the 
heart to contemplation and praise. Is there no one, in all 
our vast Oriental territory, to record something of the 
feathered inhabitants of the Eastern World? Is there not, 
throughout India, even one of our countrymen, imbued with 
the spirit of a Wilson, a Levaillant, or an Audubon ? 
