The, Andamans and Nicobars. — F. Ball. 61 



in the male with hoaiy greyish-blue on the nape and back ; ^ 

 winglet and primaries blue, the latter margined and broadly- 

 tipped with green; middle tail-feathers also blue, margined with 

 green for the basal half, and the rest of the tail-feathers 

 chiefly or wholly green above, and all of them dull-yellow 

 below ; the cap is not of a distinct emerald green as in P. 

 Malaccensis, but uniformly colored with the black (save where 

 the latter is tinged with grey in the male) ; there is a well- 

 defined uarrowish black streak from the nostril to the eye and the 

 same black moustache as in P. Malaccensis, and the lores 

 and ear- coverts (only) are blossom-red. Upper mandible 

 coral-red^ with a white tip ; the lower one black. The female 

 merely differs in having the crown, nape, and back quite 

 uniform green_, without the browny blue tinge conspicuous 

 in the male; and the upper mandible is more or less black_, 

 like the lower one.^^ — Blyth. 



"■ P. affinis, Tytler_, is described as generally like P. erythro- 

 genys, the red cheek-mark and coloration of which it possesses, 

 but diifers constantly in having a black bill." Mr. Blyth points 

 out that this is certainly the female of the above, and notes 

 the similar cases afforded by P. nigrirostris, Hodg., and P. 

 Javaniciis, &c. 



The collection which I recently examined contained a number 

 of marked males, and some corresponding to the description of 

 P. affinis which there can, I think, be no doubt, were the 

 females. In the females the moustachial streak is dark-green. 



The following are the measurements in inches : — 



^ Length 14; wing 68; bill from gape "85; tarsus '55. 

 $ „ 10-7; „ 6-8; „ „ "76; „ '55. 



33 — (151 Ms). — Palaeornis caniceps, Blyth. 



Nicobars.— Blyth, J. A. S. JB., XV, 1846, fp. 2.3, 51, 368 ; XIX, 

 233 ; Pelzeln, Reise der Novara, Vogel, 1865, f. 98 ; Gould, B. of 

 Asia, XI. 



For further references, see Einsch-'s ' Die Papageien.^ 

 '' General color vivid yellowish-green, with the winglet and 

 base of the secondaries indigo-blue, and the middle portion 

 of the secondaries inclining to emerald-green ; primaries 

 black, the longest of them tinged with indigo towards their 

 base; cap grey; a broad frontal band continued to the eyes 

 (this mark corresponding to that of P. pondicerianus ,-\ but 

 very much broader), and likewise a broad black moustache with 

 some black feathers also on the throat ; above this moustache, 



* A finer male, subsequently examined, bad tbe nape and interseapularies 

 ,ligbt yellowisb, rather than tinged with hoary grey, and tbe undei--parts also 

 more yellowish than in the other. 



t ? Of Kubl. = javanicus, Osb., or of Gmel. = faseiatus, Miill. ? Ed. 



