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succession, several Parrakeets flew against the wall of a house, on 

 the top of a hill in Saugor, and Avere killed. 



It breeds both in holes in trees, and very commonly, in the 

 south of India, about houses, in holes in old buildings, pagodas, 

 tombs, &c. Like the last, it lays four white eggs. Its breeding 

 season is from January to March. Adams states that " he has 

 seen this Parrakeet pillage the nests of the Sand Martin ; but 

 with what intent, he does not guess at. Its ordinary flight is rapid, 

 with repeated strokes of the wings, somewhat wavy laterally, or 

 arrowy. It has a harsh cry, which it always repeats when in 

 flight, as well as at other times. Mr. Philipps remarks that the 

 Kite will sometimes swoop down on them when perched on a tree, 

 and carry one off in its talons ; also that owls attack these birds 

 by night. 



149. Palaeornis rosa, Bodd. 



Psittacus, apud Boddaert — PL enl. 192 and 888 — Blyth, 

 Cat. 21 — HoRSF., Cat. 900 — P. bengalensis, Brisson — Jerdon, 

 Cat. 202 — P. cyanocephalus, L. — P. fiavicollaris, Fkankl. (the 

 female) — Faraidi, Beng. i.e. the plaintive, or complainer, — Tui-suga, 

 in Nepal — Tuia-t.ota, H. in the South — Desi-tuiya, at Mussooree — 

 Bengali-tota, in the Punjab — Rama-chilluka, Tel. 



The Kose-headed Parrakeet. 



Descr. — Adult male, the whole head and face pale roseate, 

 tinged with plum bloom posteriorly and inferiorly ; a black spot 

 from the base of the lower mandible, uniting into a narrow com- 

 plete collar, and meeting its opposite one at the chin, which is thus 

 broadly black ; behind the collar, the hind-neck verdigris-green ; 

 the upper portion of the back and scapulars yellow green ; the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, pale blue- green ; the wings 

 green, with a small red spot on the lesser coverts ; shoulders bluish 

 green ; the whole inner webs of most of the quills dusky ; tail, 

 with the two centre feathers, cobalt blue, tipped white ; the next 

 pair blue towards the apical portion, also tipped white ; the others 

 pale green on their outer webs, yellowish internally ; plumage 

 beneath, bright siskin, or yellow green. Some are less brightly 



