1875.] 



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loftier elevations. Mason remarks that he never observed it in the pro- 

 vinces of Tavoy and Mergui. Schomburgk, however, notes it from Siam.* 



[Palcdornis eupatrius, Lin., is the correct title. Psittacus alexandri^ 

 Lin., belongs to the Javan parrakeet.j 



2. *P. TOKQUATTJS (J. 148). 

 Kyai-gyot. 



Eesorts to open country as elsewhere, and is therefore chiefly met with 

 in the interior, beyond the maritime belt of forest. Dr. Cantor procured it 

 so far southward as in Province "Wellesley. 



[Thayet Myo {War&law Ramsay).'] 



3. *P. schisticeps (J. 150). 



P. schisticeps, Hodgs. ; Gould, B. As. pt. x. pi. 8. 

 Mountains of Arakan. 



[Tonghoo hills (W. JR.). The Tonghoo bird belongs to the race named 

 P.fimchii, Hume (Str. Feath. ii. p. 509).] 



4. *P. cYAtfoCEPHALirs (J. 149, partim). 



P. cyanocephalus, Lin. ; Edwards, pi. 233. Kyai-ta-tna. 

 Exceedingly common in the forests of British Burma, where it takes 



P. affinis, Gould, and P. viridirnystax, nobis, are the young), belongs to the southern half of 

 the Malayan peninsula, with the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and Loriculus galgulus 

 has exactly the same range of distribution ; the latter being replaced in Java by L. pusilltjs, 

 G. R. Gray ; which is closely akin to L, yernalis of India and Burma, it being, however, 

 well distinguished, which is more than can be averred of P. yibrisca as inhabiting the 

 same island. 



[The Andaman race of P. erythrogenys (P. affinis, Tytler, P. tytleri, Hume) slightly 

 differs. P. derbyanus is not generally admitted to be distinct from P. vnelanorhynchus, 

 Wagler. It is not certain whether the title Psittacus barbatus, 6m., should not be expunged. 

 It was given to Latham's bearded parralceet (Syn. i. p. 238, no. 38), described from a 

 specimen, origin unknown, in the Hunterian Museum. Examples of the species, P. luciani, 

 are so rare, that a comparison with Latham's description is difficult to make. Eventually 

 examples exhibiting the phase of plumage described by Latham may be met with ; in the 

 mean time it seems best to follow Dr. Finsch and adapt Verreaux's title.] 



* The Indo-Chinese bird should now be compared with the Andaman race, as described 

 by Mr. V. Ball (J.A.S.B. xli. pt. ii. p. 278). 



[I have compared a large series of Burmese and Andaman individuals, and find that the 

 latter differ by having the bills considerably larger.] 



