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with the terminal one-fourth of both mandibles mellow yellow 

 eyelids, pale pink, with the edges orange ; legs, orange." 



Captain Feilden says : " These birds disappear during the hot- 

 weather ; towards the end of the rains they fly in great numbers 

 from the direction of the Arracan Hills, and across the Irrawaddy. 

 Later in the autumn, they are to be found in small flocks in the 

 Teak trees, and feeding on chillies, &c, all round Thayetmyo. 

 They are a very common bird, but owing to their roving habits, 

 and the height at which they fly when going to their feeding 

 grounds, it is not always easy to procure specimens. Their flight 

 is very slow, compared with that of other Parroquets. 



148.— Palseornis torquatus, Bodd. 



Specimens sent by Captain Feilden and Mr. Oates appear 

 identical with specimens from various localities in India. Both 

 gentlemen say that this species is very common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Thayetmyo. 



149 &^ —Palseornis bengalensis, Gm. 



This is the smaller, Peachbloom-headed Parroquet, with the 

 lower wing coverts unicolorous, or nearly so, with the breast 

 (which weget from Sikhim, Assam, and Eastern Bengal) instead 

 of pale greenish blue, as in purpurens, Mull, (rosa, Bodd) . 



Both Captain Feilden and Mr. Oates remark that this species 

 is common about Thayetmyo alike in the plains and hills. 



? 150.— Palseornis schisticeps, Hodgs. 



One imperfect specimen of this species, or it may have been 

 Finschii, was obtained by Mr. Oates on the Pegu Hills on the 

 27th April. He says that the soft parts were as follows : — 



" Cere, ashy brown; upper mandible, reddish yellow; the middle, 

 one- third coral red; the lower mandible, yellow; the edges, dusky." 



Mr. Oates did not discriminate this bird from the females of the 

 next species, and so gives no further particulars about it ; but 

 presumably it does not descend to the plains, but is a resident of 

 the hills of Pegu. 



152.— Palseornis fasciatus, Mull. ? P. melano- 



rhynchllS, Wagler. 



Thayetmyo specimens differ in no way that I can discover 

 from others, from Kumaon, Sikhim, Tipperah, Tenasserim and the 

 Andamaus. 



Mr. Oates says : " This bird is very common here, but less so 

 perhaps than the other species. I have shot them with red 

 breasts in April and also in December/'' 



