232 Conspectus of Indian Ornithology, [No. 3. 



Remark. I This is the only Indian Parrot (so far as we are aware) 

 that affects* the vicinity of human habitations, flocks of them often 

 settling upon buildings, especially if situate in gardens with trees about 

 them/ and one or more pairs occasionally breeding in suitable cavities 

 about buildings. It is the only species observed wild in the densely 

 populous neighbourhood of Calcutta, but in jungle districts becomes 

 replaced by No. 4. 



3. P. schisticeps, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX. 178. 



Syn. ? Conurus himalayanus, Lesson, in Belanger's Voyage, zz J* 

 Mddana Sugd s Nepal (Hodgson) : Puhari Tuiya, Masuri 

 (Hutton) : Gdgi of Calcutta bird-dealers. 

 Hab. Sub-Himalayan region (exclusively). 

 Remark. The Masuri name of this species (or 'mountain Tuia 5 ) 

 well expresses its near affinity for the next. The adult sexes differ in 

 the male having a small maronne spot on the wing, which is wanting or 

 barely indicated in the female, and the black demi-collar is also rather 

 more developed. The young have generally but a trace of the slaty-blue 

 cap, but this is fully developed in some few specimens, though with- 

 out the black demi-collar which borders this cap in the adult. The 

 beak, which in P. cyanocephalus is bright yellow, is in the present 

 species yellow tinged with coral-red, and in adults of all the other 

 species is bright coral-red. 



4. P. cyanocephalus (Edwards, pi. 233 ; Daubenton's PL Enl., 

 264). 



Syn. Psittacus cyanocephalus, L. 

 Ps. flavitorquis, Shaw. 

 Ps. annulatus, Kuhl. 

 Palceornis fiamcollariSy Franklin. 

 Psittaca bengalensis, Brisson. 



one from Madras : between the first three of these, there is no difference whatever 

 in size ; but that from the East Indies is considerably larger ; the length of its 

 wing, in fact, measuring 7 in., while that of the Senegal race is not quite 6 in." 

 Birds of W. Africa, II, 175. Of numerous Indian specimens examined, from all 

 the above named localities, we have found the length of the wing to be very regularly 

 6| in., rarely | in. more or less. 



