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Birds of Burma. 



pro. i, 



Province SAUROPSIDA, 



Class AYES. 



Sub-class Carinatje. 



Order PREEENSORES, 



Fam. Psittacidse. 



Parrots. 



*1. Pal^eoeistis alexandri (J. 147).* 



P. eupatriusj L., adopted by Dr. Finseh, Die Papageien, torn. ii. p. 11. Kyai- 

 phoung-ka. 



A mountain species in British Burma, chiefly or wholly confined to the 



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* It is probable that more species of Paljeornis remain to be discovered in the Indo- 

 Chinese peninsula. Some of them are very local, as P. columboides (J. 150), which is 

 confined to the mountains of S. India, as P. calthrop^e is to those of Ceylon. P. ery- 

 throgenys, nobis (P. nicobaricus, Gould, B.As. pt. ix. pi. 13), is known only from the 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands. P. caniceps, nobis (Gould, B. As. pt. ix. pi. 12), was 

 founded on a mutilated specimen obtained alive from a Nicobar savage, and a black-billed 

 (and probably, therefore, female) example of it was subsequently procured by the late Dr. 

 Cantor in Province "Wellesley, These were the only specimens known, when Herr v. Pelzeln 

 obtained it in the Car Nicobar, and quite recently I saw three in a collection, which also 

 contained two of P. erythrogenys, but whence obtained could not be learned, and there 

 were no species peculiar to the Andaman or Nicobar Islands together with them, though 

 several common to the Tenasserim provinces and Malayan peninsula. The fine P. derbianus 

 (P. Z. 8. 1850, pi. 25 ; Gould, P. As. pt. x. pi. 9) is only known from a single speci- 

 men, the habitat of which could not be ascertained; and P. barbattjs, Gm. (Souance 

 Rev. Zool. 1856, p. 209; P. luciani, Verreaux, P. erythrogenys, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1850, 

 pi. 26; Gould, B. As. pt. ix. pi. 11), is yet another species of which the habitat has 

 only recently been ascertained, viz. "Western China (Sze-chuen), though three or four 

 specimens of it were preserved in different museums. All of these birds, excepting the first- 

 mentioned two (from S. India and Ceylon), are nearly akin to P. vibrisca, though well dis- 

 tinguished in every instance ; and the last three of them are not unlikely to prove indigenous 

 to different parts of the Indo-Chinese countries. P. longicaudatus (Gould, B. As. pt. x. 

 pi. 10, 11) ; P. malaccensis (Gmelin, nee Latham) ; P. erythrogenys (Lesson, and of which 



