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Psittacus erythrocephalus, Gmelin. 



Ps. ginginianus, Latham. 



Ps. rhodocephalus, Shaw. 



Var. Ps. narcissus, Latham (with coloured figure). 



Faridi, and Fariddi (' plaintive'), Bengal; Tui Sugd 



(the first or specific name imitative of cry), Nepal 



(Hodgson) ; Tuia Totd, S. India (Jerdon) ; Bengali 



totd, Panjab ; Kyai-ta-ma, Arakan (Phayre). 



Hab. Upland and jungle regions of all India proper ; Ceylon ; 



Asam ; Sylhet ; Arakan ; Tenasserim provinces. N. B. It occurs in 



open jungle, in the Bengal Sundarbans. To the westward, leaving the 



alluvial soil of the Ganges, it seems entirely to take the place of P. 



torquatus in the Midnapur jungles. 



5. P. malaccensis (Daubenton's PL Enl. 887 ; Levaillant, pi. 72). 

 Syn. Psittacus malaccensis, Gmelin (nee Latham). 



Ps. erubescens, Shaw. 



Ps. ginginianus, var. C, Latham. 



Ps. barbatulatus, Bechstein. 



Bayan, Sumatra (Raffles) ; Madnd Bhola of the Cal- 

 cutta dealers. 

 Hab. Malayan peninsula ; Sumatra. 



6. P. erythrogenis, Blyth, J. A. S. XV, 23, 51, 368. 



Hab. This beautiful species is common in the Nicobar Islands, 

 and does not appear to have been hitherto observed elsewhere. 



7. P. caniceps, Blyth, /. A. S. XV, 23, 51. 



Hab. Nicobar Islands ; Malayan peninsula (latitude of Penang). 

 Remark. Of this fine and strongly marked species, we have seen 

 two specimens only ; one with a coral-red beak, procured alive (with 

 its wings and tail much mutilated) from a Nicobarian savage, and which 

 is now in the Society's Museum ; the other with a black beak, from 

 Province Wellesley. 



8. P. barbatus (Daubenton's PL Enl. 517; Swainson's Zool. III., 

 2nd series, pi. 16). 



Syn. Psittacus barbatus, Ps, pondicerianus, and Ps. borneus, 

 Gmelin. 



