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with the large rose ringed paroquet in Ladakh, nor have I seen it 

 in any of the twenty odd collections (made there by natives and 

 Europeans) that I have examined. 



Dr. Rnsch says, that eupatrius never frequents gardens or 

 towns, but I may mention that the last time (November 9th, 

 1867), I was up the minars of the Juma or Badishaiee Musjid 

 at Lahore, a huge flock of sivalensis were wheeling and scream- 

 ing round me, several from time to time perching within a 

 few feet of our party. 



Let us turn now to (4) torquatus, and first hear what our 

 learned Dr. has to say. 



He remarks, " If we may then consider the question f whether 

 more than one species is included under the name of torquatus' as 

 tolerably cleared up, we have yet to discuss a point which has 

 been no less insufficiently demonstrated. This relates to the pre- 

 tended green colour of the female which has been asserted by 

 Blyth, Layard, and Jerdon. The last remarks in his well known 

 work "The Birds of India/' that the female wants the rose- 

 colored neck ring, in place of which it has a clear emerald green 

 one. In regard to the colouring of the young birds, unfortunately 

 nothing is stated. 



" It had for a long time seemed to me very doubtful whether 

 these green birds were really only females, for not only was I 

 able to examine several specimens in which the red neck-band 

 very clearly made its appearance, but I also saw in the Zoological 

 Gardens at Antwerp as many as thirty uniformly green birds 

 which had been brought direct from West Africa, and which 

 could by no possibility have been all females. 



" A complete solution of the question however I first obtained 

 in the beautiful collection of Major Kirchhoff, at Schaferhof, in 

 which I found a female which had been killed by Brehm on the 

 Blue River, and dissected with his own hand, which was colored 

 exactly like the male, that is to say, with the black mandibular 

 stripes and red neck band. Later, Dr. Brehm (whose observa- 

 tions of nature no one could question) verbally assured me of 

 the fact. Likewise I ascertained from Herr Consul Bornstein 

 who has often kept P. torquatus in his charming chamber me- 

 nagerie, that the green birds, as time progressed, assumed a red 

 neck-ring ; this is moreover established by Wagler on the ground 

 of similar observation. Thus all sufficient proofs are at hand to 

 demonstrate that these uniformly colored green specimens are 

 only the young birds, and that the males and females in full 

 plumage do not differ. 



" Moreover, this demonstration is all the more important, as 

 through it we can with tolerable certainty assume a similar 



