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they Btiovej it is wonderful how they manage to thread their 

 tortuous course among them ; yet they do so^ and when wishing 

 to alight, they suddenly, as if with one consent, sweep upwards 

 into the branches of some tall tree ; where the forest is open 

 and the trees scattered, they pursue a higher flight and easily 

 evade the foliage, twisting and turning in and out until a batch 

 of fruit is found when, with one wild shrill scream, they instant- 

 ly alight as if by word of command. 



Palseornis bengalensis. 



Syn. Psittaca bengalensis . . . Brisson. 



Palseornis bengalensis . . . Linn, apud Sclater, 



Psittacus erythrocephalus . . . Gmel. 



Ps. ginginianus ... Latham. 



Ps. rhodocephalus ... Shaw. 



var Ps. narcissus . . . Latham. 



Palseornis rosa . . . Bodd. apud Jerdou. 



Psittacus cj^anocephalus ... Linn. "j 



Ps. flavitorques ... Shaw. L t^ i 



Ps. annulatus ... Kuhl f 



Palseornis flavieollaris . . . Pranklin J 



Native names Faridi, Beng ; Tin Suga, Nepal ; Ti(,ya, Mus- 

 sooree ; Tuya totali, S. India, Jerdon. 



Should there eventually be found any specific difference be- 

 tween the Southern and North- Western birds, the former will 

 probably be P. bengalensis and the latter P. o'osa.^ 



Hilly regions of all Lidia, apud Blyth ; Assam, Sylhet, 

 Arracau. Tenasserim, also Dehra Doon, Lower Mussooree, and 

 Neemuch. 



This with us is, properly speaking, a Dehra Dhoon species, al- 

 though many come up into the hills to about 5,500 ft. to breed, 

 arriving about the end of March, and leaving, the majority^ to 

 breed below in the Dhoon. 



In the hills they begin boring their nest-holes early in April, 

 and by the end of May the young are sufficiently advanced to 

 be taken from the nest. In the Dhoon they are ready rather 

 earlier, being brought up for sale about the middle of May, 

 when numbers are disposed of at from four to eight annas each. 

 They lay from two to four eggs, of a pure white, and seem to 

 breed in a variety of trees such as Andromeda ovalifolia and other 

 soft-wooded trees, yet not turning even from the oak if they 

 can find a soft semi-decayed spot. One pair bored a hole in an 



* There are certainly two species — P. bengalensis, Gmel. , which I have as yet 

 only seen from Sikhim, Nepal, Assam, and liurmah — and P, purpureus, Miil. 

 (=:: rosa, Bodd.) from the rest of India.— Ed., S. F. 



