uniformly of a pale yellowish green, with a still lighter-coloured ring round the neck ; and the upper surface 

 of the tail exhihits a little blue. In the second year the head becomes of a fine bluish cast, with a yellow 

 collar round the neck, when it becomes the P. cyatiocephalus ; and in the third year the head of the male 

 becomes a most beautiful rich peach-blossom, shading off to the black ring into a soft azure blue. In the 

 third year the full plumage of the adult is acquired ; and each subsequent year, for some time, only adds to 

 its richness of colouring." 



Dr. Jerdon observes : — "It frequents jungly districts in preference to the more open parts of the country, 

 but occurs in all the more richly wooded cultivated districts; and it generally visits those parts of the 

 country that are tolerably wooded during the rains. It usually breeds in the jungles ; but I have found its 

 nest in my own garden at Sangor." 



" It has similar habits to the others, feeding on fruits and grains, which it picks off the standing corn 

 or, in the stubble-fields, off the ground. It is less noisy, and has a much more pleasant call, than P. torquatus. 

 Its flight is very swift, indeed much more so than in the last-named bird and P. alewandru It breeds in 

 holes of trees, from December to March, and has usually four white eggs." 



Mr. Holdsworth writes : — " I have only met with this species in the southern parts of Ceylon, where it is 

 very destructive to the grain crops ; but it is also found at times on the lower hills generally. I have seen 

 a flock of fifty of these birds fly down one after another to a field of paddy, and each, biting off an ear of 

 the green corn, return to a neighbouring tree to devour the plunder ; and this has been repeated again and 

 again. The three species of Palceornis are constantly caged by the natives; and few native dwellings are 

 without one or other of these favourite pets," Mr. Vincent Legge, also writing from Ceylon, says: — "P. 

 rosa is numerous from the low country up to the highest part of the Marowa-Korle s being found in the 

 greatest numbers in the intermediate hills." 



The large figure in the Plate is of the size of life. 



