1S9S.] dy MAMMALS PROM TIBET AXD KASHMIR. 357 



are verditer-blue (in the mile), the under tail-coverts orange. 

 The sexes are different in coloration. 



Adult male. Forehead, lores, and crown dark chestnut ; cheeks 

 and ring across the nape and all the lower parts verditer-blue ; the 

 abdomen more greyish and without any trace of scarlet. Lower 

 tail-coverts orange. Back of neck, back, scapulars, inner wing- 

 coverts, and inner secondaries light greyish brown. Rump bluish 

 green ; upper tail-coverts yellowish green with faint bluish edges. 

 A large patch on the anterior, smaller, and median wing-coverts, 

 yellow; greater wing-coverts and quills black, the latter shghtly 

 edged with a bluish tint ; edge of the wing verditer-blue ; under 

 wing-coverts of a more bluish hue. Two central tail-feathers olive- 

 green at the base, passing into brownish black towards the ex- 

 tremity; next pair bluish green with whitish tips, and the inner 

 web blackish ; the remaining tail-feathers light bluish green, 

 crossed by an irregular blackish band. Bill (in skin) bluish horn- 

 colour with whitish edges ; feet brownish grey. 



Adult female. Crown and forehead greyish olive-green, cheeks 

 more grey. Upper surface, wing-coverts, and breast yellowish 

 green ; abdomen light bluish green. Hump, upper and under 

 tail-coverts, and tail as in the male; under surface of the quills 

 with an oblong yellow spot ; edge of the wing greenish ; under 

 wing-coverts dark greyish green. Bill dark, as in the male. 



Youn^ier female. Like the adult female, but the crown a little 

 more yellowish green (like the back), with the front greyish ; sides 

 of the head clear grey, with faint stripes of emerald-green. Bill 

 yellowish. 



Bab. This Parrot was met with here and there in small flocks 

 in Arnhem Land, particularly between Pine Creek and Catherine 

 River, but did not appear to be common. It was seen only 

 during the dry season. It possesses a singular jarring cry, and, 

 like all Parrots, is reluctant to forsake a wounded companion. 



Christiania, March 15, 1898. 



3. Notes on Lepus oiostolus and L.pallipes from Tibet^ and on 

 a Kashmir Macaque. By W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived April 14, 1898.] 



In Biichner's magnificent work on the Mammalia collected by 

 Przewalski Mu Central Asia many important changes are intro- 

 duced into the nomenclature formerly employed by myself and 

 others, and several of the species described by Dr. Griinther and 



^ Wissenschaftliche Resultate der von N. M. Przewalski nach Central Asien 

 unternommenen Reisen &c. Zoologischer Theil. Band 1. Saugethiere. 



