118 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



I say not very dissimilar in size, but at the same time 

 neither nipalensis nor sivalensis ever have quite such long 

 tails as the Andamanese and Burmese birds have. I have for 

 years now been specially collecting this group, and have over 

 a hundred fine specimens from different parts of the British 

 Indian Empire. I have taken every opportunity of shooting' 

 them and getting them shot. I have never met with 

 a specimen of sivalensis or nipalensis exceeding 21 inches 

 in length ; the majority of the finest adult males do not 

 exceed 20, but both Andamanese and Burmese birds run 

 to 23. 



The adult males of the three species may be at once simply 



diagnosed : — 



Nape and Sides Mandibular Base of 



of Head. Stripes. Throat. 



P. sivalensis Suffused with Very broad. Like breast. 



glaucous grey. 

 P. nipalensis Like top of head. Broad. Like breast. 



P. magniroslrls Like top of head. Narrow. Pale yellow. 

 Now the Burmese birds, no doubt the finest of them, 

 have smaller bills than either of these three, but they agree 

 with magnirostris in the very narrow black, mandibular 

 stripe, in the decided yellow of the base of the throat, 

 and in the entire absence of the glaucous grey shade on 

 the face and nape, and therefore I prefer to retain them 

 under Mr. Ball's name. 



148. — Palseornis torquatus, JBodd. 



Blyth remarks, talking of Burmah as a whole : u Resorts 

 to open country as elsewhere, and is therefore chiefly met with 

 in the interior, beyond the maritime belt of forest. Dr. Cantor 

 procured it so far southward as in Wellesley Province." 



I have every reason to believe that it never occurs in 

 Tenasserim proper. As for Dr. Cantor procuring it in Wellesley 

 Province, if he did so, it was probably, as he must have 

 procured P. caniceps, i.e., in a cage or as a skin. I have 

 the strongest grounds for believing that it never occurs in 

 the Malay Peninsula or in any part of Tenasserim, except 

 in the extreme north which I have not yet had worked. 



Lieutenant Ramsay, who has worked these parts, tells us 

 that he only once met with this Parakeet, and then on the lower 

 slopes of the Karen Hills. 



149 bis.— Palseornis cyanocephalus, Lin. (64). 

 Descr. S. E., V., 16. 



Kyouk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Theinzeik ; Thatone ; Wiinpong ; Megaloon ; Moul- 

 mein ; Kohbaing; Amherst; Tavoy; Shymotee. 



Confined to the northern and central portions of the province. 



