PSITTACI. 



PSITTACIBvE. 



PALvEORNINiE. 

 Genus PAL^OENIS. 

 Bill rather short ; upper mandible evenly curved from the base, the tip moderately produced ; 

 the margin furnished with a rounded indentation ; the cere small, nostrils pierced close to the 

 culmen ; under mandible short. "Wings moderately long; 2nd quill the longest, 1st and 3rd 

 slightly shorter. Tail very long, the central feathers usually produced much beyond the next 

 two. Tarsus very short and finely reticulated. Outer anterior toe longer than tarsus ; outer 

 posterior toe longer than the inner anterior one ; claws rather straight and short. 



PAL.EOKNIS EUPATEIUS. 



(THE ALEXANDRINE PARRAKEET.) 



Psittacus eupatrius, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 140, ? (17G6). 



Psittaca ginginiana, Brisson, Om. iv. p. 343, pi. 29. fig. 1, ? (1760). 



Palceornis alexandri, Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 49 (1825) ; Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 



Journ. 1840, xi. p. 208 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 4 (1849) ; Kelaart, Pro- 



dromus, Cat. p. 127 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 262 ; Horsf. 



& Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 610 (1856) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 256 (1862) ; 



Finsch, Papageien, p. 11 (1868); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 425; Hutton, Str. Feath. 



1873, p. 333; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 14. 

 Palcvornis eupatrius, Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 297; Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 433; Ball, 



Str. Feath. 1874, p. 389; Legge, ibid. 1875, p. 199; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 282. 

 Palceornis magnirostris, Ball, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 66; Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 176. 

 The Ping Parrakeet, Edwards, Glean, vol. vi. pi. 292 (1760) ; The Alexandrine Parrakeet, 



Latham ; Grande Perruche aux ailes rougedtres, Buffon, Hist. Ois. vi. p. 156 ; Rose-band 



Parrakeet of some. 

 Ba-i-tota, lit. " Royal Parrakeet," Hind, in south of India ; Pedda chilluka, Tel. ; Peria killi, 



Tamils in India and Ceylon ; Chundanon, in Maunbhoom (Beavan). 

 Laboo giraioa, Sinhalese. 



Adult male. Length to front of cere 18-0 to 19-5 inches ; eulinen from cere P55 ; wing 7 - S to 8*2 ; tail 1P0 to 12-0 : 

 tarsus 0*75 ; outer anterior toe 1*0, its claw (straight) 0-45 ; depth of upper mandible at cere 0-73 to 0-78. 

 The bill varies in depth ; in old birds the lobe gets worn away, and in others 1 have observed that one side of the 

 bill is higher than the other. 



Iris yellowish white or very pale yellow, with a bluish-grey inner circle ; eyelid dull reddish : bill deep cherry-red, paler 

 on the lower mandible, and the tips of both somewhat yellowish. 



Legs and feet greyish sap-green, or greenish plumbeous, or plumbeous grey ; claws dusky. Above grass-green, brighten- 

 ing to emerald-green on the forehead and lores, and darker on the wings ; a faint blackish stripe from the nostrils 



