160 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIH 



149 .fe— Palseornis cyanocephalus, Lin. 



Except in the dry forests to the north and about Maulmain, 

 this species seems to me the commonest of all the Parakeets. 



It is so in the Thoungyeen valley, where it ranges from the 

 sources of that river to its mouth. 



Males measured. — Length, 12-0 to 127; expanse, 16"4 to 

 16*7 ; wing, 5-39 to 5*67 • tail, from 6*0, in a partially abraded 

 though otherwise perfect specimen, to 7*8 ; tarsus, 0*50 • bill 

 from gape, 0'68. 



Cere, legs and feet brownish ashy ; bill, upper mandible deep 

 wax yellow, tipped horny white • lower black, just a tinge of 

 yellow at centre of base ; irides yellow. 



Females.— Length, 11-48 to 11*92 ; expanse, 15*20 to 16*00 ; 

 wing,5-l to 5-4 ; tail, 6'1 to 7*0 ; tarsus, 0'48 ; bill from gape,0-67. 



Cere, legs, and feet dusky slaty • upper mandible yellow, 

 whitish horny at tip ■ lower dull black ; irides yellow. 



150 bis.— Palaeornis finschi, Hume. 



This handsome Parrot is common in the higher hills and 

 spurs of the Dawna along the whole of the Thoungyeen 

 valley, and I fancy it must occur in the ranges between the 

 Attaran and Houndraw, as I procured a young male at Maul- 

 main, evidently a straggler, on the 22nd November 1877. The 

 following are its dimensions, etc., taken in the flesh : — 



Length, 13-8 ; expanse, 17*4 ; wing, 5*90 ; tail, 7*61 ; tarsus, 

 0'85 ; bill from gape, 0'8. 



Bill light cherry red on basal two-thirds of upper mandible ; 

 tip of which and lower mandible pale yellow ; cere, legs, and 

 feet light plumbeous ; irides bright yellow ; claws horny. 



This specimen differs from the adult in having the cap a 

 dull bluish brown, with a small admixture of green feathers 

 on the crown and back part of the head ; in there being no 

 black edging to the cap on the chin and behind the cheeks, as 

 in the adult ; and in the complete absence of any wing spot. 

 In other respects its plumage corresponds in its characteristic 

 narrow tail and coloration to Mr. Hume's original description 

 of the species, (S. F. Vol. II., p. 509). 



152.— Palaeornis fasciatus, P. L. S. Mull. 



This bird does not to the best of my belief extend into the 

 Thoungyeen valley. In, the plains country, about Maulmain, 

 on the Attaran, Gryne, and Houndraw rivers, up the Salween 

 and its tributary the Yoonzaleen, they abound. 



On the 8th February 1878 I found a nest in the Maoo 

 reserve, Zammee river, in a hole cut in the decayed branch 

 of a large Zimbun tree (Dillenia jaentagyna)\ it contained one 



