388 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 
All the tail feathers but the central pair broadly tipped with 
white ; breast, flanks, sides, and upper abdomen, dull blue grey ; 
lower abdomen, greyish white to white; vent and lower tail 
coverts white, tinged with fulvous or dingy pale rufescent. 
Imay add that females procured in the Wynaad and on 
the Cardamon Hills only differ in being rather paler and duller 
above and below, in exhibiting less of the green gloss, and 
in having only three pairs of the tail feathers tipped with white. 
I have rot specimens enough to enable me to determine 
whether this difference (three pairs white tipped in the one case, 
four pairs in the other) is individual or depends, as from my 
few specimens it would seem to do, upon sex. 
I may notice that the young bird has the irides dirty yellow, 
that the bill is smaller, is entirely pale yellow, and not over- 
spread with the reddish brown tint of the adult, has a black 
patch at the base of the lower mandible, and another on the 
basal portion of the culmen. 
151.—Paleornis columboides, Jerd. 
“Very common; not ascending to the tops of the hills, 
and being replaced at their base by the red-headed Parroquet. 
Tt occurs on the margin of heavy jungle, but is found most 
abundantly in the secondary growth on land which has once 
been occupied by the hill men. This species commences laying 
in the first week of January, and fresh eges may be obtained 
early in February. The eggs are generally deposited with- 
out any attempt at a nest, beyond, perhaps, a few dried leaves 
in a natural cavity of a tree. The eggs, which are smooth, 
white, glossy, and of delicate texture, are from two to four in 
number.—F. W. B.” 
{wo males and two females, one of the latter a young bird, 
all sexed by Mr. Bourdillon himself, fully bear out my 
remarks in regard to this species, Vol. II, p. 226. 
A male measured in the flesh:—Length, 14; expanse, 14:5 ; 
wing, 5°5; tail, 8-75; tarsus, 0°; bill from gape to point, 
08; a finer male was nearly 15 inches in length and hada 
tail, 9:5 long. 
A female measured :—Length, 12°25 ; expanse, 16°25 ; wing, 
5:37; tail, 675. The bill was black; irides, yellow; and 
feet, grey. 
153.—Loriculus vernalis, Sparrm. 
“ Fully as common as the last, at the same elevations, 
but less conspicuous on account of its smaller size. I took 
three very hard set eggs of this species from a hollow stump, 
