308 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
75 ; bill from gape, 1:05 to 1:25; from base of culmen to tip, 
1: 35 to 1:4; height of bill at feee 1:4 to 1°45. 
In both sexes the irides were of a pale yellowish white ; bill, 
crimson, tipped with dirty yellow, apparently the result of 
-attrition ; legs and feet, bright yellow. 
[The numerous specimens collected by Dr. Armstrong, 
though very much resembling magnirostris of the Andamans, 
has ‘not, taking a series, so lare ge a bill as that species. Itisa 
very much lars ger bird, however, than the Ceylon eupatria, and 
it altogether wants the glaucous blue tinge on the head of the 
Northern and North-Western sivalensis, Hutton. It approaches 
nearest to nipalensis, Hodgson, but seems to me on the whole 
to average larger, and to “have the yellow throat patch more 
conspicuously marked. —A. O. He] 
149 bis——Palxornis bengalensis, Gm., (Vide S. F., 
II, 16.) 
This species was tolerably abundant in the forest districts 
lying between Elephant Point and China-Ba-keer. I have 
always found them consorting in parties of from seven or ten 
to twenty or thirty. They are very noisy birds, giving utter- 
ance to a harsh screaming cry during their flight, which is ex- 
tremely rapid and powerful. The following is a resumé of the 
dimensions of eight specimens recorded in the flesh :— 
Four males. —Length, 11°5to 13; expanse, 15:7 to 16°5; 
tail from vent, 6°7 ‘to 7 5; wing, 5:2 to 5'7; tarsus, °5 to ‘6; 
bill from gape, ‘65 to °75. 
Four females.— Length, 10°5 to 11; expanse, 15:2 to 13-7; tail 
from vent, 5°7 to 63; tarsus, ‘5 to 6; wing,d to 5:25; bill 
from gape, °65 to °7. 
In both sexes the irides were light pinkish or yellowish white ; 
upper mandible, orange or dark yellow, becoming lighter to- 
wards the point which is tipped with greyish white; lower 
mandible, black ; legs and feet, dirty black. 
152.—Paleornis melanorhynchus, Wagler. 
This species was more numerous and more generally distri- 
buted than either magnirostris or bengalensis. It is usually gre- 
garious in its habits, but I have not infrequently found it soli- 
tary. It occurs most abundantly in the vicinity of flowering 
trees, upon the flower and leaf buds of which it feeds. It is 
much more familiar than any other species of Parrot which I 
met with, and if one of a flock should happen to be wounded, 
its calling will bring the whole party flying round almost with- 
in arm’s length, the entire number keeping up all the time an 
