60 The Andamaiis and Nicohars. — V. Ball. 



FALJEOBNIN^. 

 29— (147). — Palseornis Alexandri, Linn. 



Andanians.—T. and JB., Ibis, N. S., Ill, f. 319 ; Ball, J. A. S. B., 

 LXI, Ft. II, 1872, p. 278. 



I HAVE recently described (1. c), as being possibly only a 

 variety of this species, a specimen from the Andamans, which 

 is remarkable for the enormous size of its bill, the smallness 

 of the moustachial stripe, the vivid emerald green (without 

 a trace of the ordinary purplish grey bloom), of the head and 

 cheeks, and the greater amount of blue than usual on the 

 central tail-feathers. Should this variety prove to be sufficiently 

 constant, I have suggested the name magnirostris for it. 



30 — (148). — Palseornis torquatus, Bodd. 



Andamans. — Introduced hy Colonel Ti/tler, vide Ibis, N. S., Ill, 1867, 

 p. 320. 



31— (152). — Palseornis Javanicus, Oshech. 



Andamans.— Ball, J. A. S. B., XLI, 1872, Ft. II, p. 279. 

 Blyth writes — " P. Javanicus differs only from P. vihrisca, in 

 the Javan bird having a red lower mandible, while the other 

 has a black one ; but in some Javan specimens the lower 

 mandible is blackish, and Mr. Gould has a specimen from Siam 

 with a red under mandible; the Hainan birds have it black.^-' 

 Finsch, in his monograph * die Papageieu,^ includes both under 

 P. Lathami, Finsch. 



A male examined by me 1. c, has the under mandiLle 

 black. 



32 — (152 Us). — Palseornis erythrogenys, Blyth; 

 P. Nicobaricus, Gould; P. affinis, Tytler, the ^ . 



Andamans. — MoiMt's App., p. 355 ; Vise. Walden, P. Z. S., p. 537 ; 

 Tytlei^ and Beavan,Ibis, N. S.,III, 1867, p. 319; Ibis, N. S., IV, 

 1868, p. 132; Ball, J. A. S. B., XXXIX, 1870, p. 240; Ball, 

 ibidem, LXI, 1872, Ft. II, p. 279. 

 Nicobar.— Blyth, J. A. S.B.,XV,18^Q, pp. 23, 51, andm8; Felzeln, 

 Reise der Novara, Vogel, \ 865, p. 97 ; Gould. F. Z. 8., 1866, p. 555 ; 

 B. of Asia, Ft. IX.; Ball, J. A. S. B., XXXIX, 1870,^. 30. 

 For further references, see Finsch^s ' Die Papageien.' 

 " Allied to P, Malaccensis ,^ but readily distinguished by the 

 blossom (or rather cherry) red hue of the cheeks not being 

 continued round the nape, and hy its lai-ger size and differently 

 shaped tail. Length of wing 7i inches, and of tail 10 inches, 

 the middle pair of tail-feathers exceeding the next by 3| inches. 

 General color bright-green, more yellowish below, and ting-ed 



* ? M'lJaccensis, Gm. = longicaudaius, Bodd. 



