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Sumatra and Java contain the large Tanygnathi perhaps as rarities, but 

 no Cockatoo, nor Eclectus ; and the only Lory, if any, is Eos ornata, 

 which Sir St. Raffles reported by mistake (?) to inhabit the Malayan 

 Peninsula.* 



With regard to the distribution of species in India and the neigh- 

 bouring countries, we first remark three of Palceornis (Alexandri, 

 torquatusy and cyanocephalus,) as common — with unimportant local 

 exceptions — to all India from the sub-Himalayan regions to Ceylon 

 inclusive, and also to the eastward in Asam, Arakan, the Tenasserim 

 provinces, and P. torquatus as far southward as Penang. Others are 

 much more local, as P. Calthrapce which is confined to the mountains of 

 Ceylon, P. columboides to those of S. India, P. schisticeps to the 

 sub-Himalayan regions, and P. erythrogenis (so far as known) to the 

 Nicobar islands. Of P. caniceps we know of but two examples, one 

 procured in the Nicobars, the other at or near Penang ; and this may 

 prove to be properly a species of Indo-China. In the hilly parts of 

 Bengal, and along the S. E. sub-Himalayan regions, in Asam, Sylhet, 

 Arakan, the Tenasserim provinces, and the Malayan peninsula to the 

 latitude of Penang, P. barbatus abounds, and is common also in Sumatra, 

 Java, and Borneo ; but it is unknown in the Indian peninsula (though 

 having for a synonyme the name pondicerianus), and it would seem 

 equally so in the southern parts of the Malayan peninsula. In 

 these latter countries its place would seem to be taken by P. malac* 

 censis ; and the range of Tanygnathus malaccensis and of Loriculus 

 galgulus corresponds. In Malacca collections I have seen only the 

 three last named species, added to which in Penang collections I have 

 seen P. torquatus, P. barbatus, and one specimen of P. caniceps : 

 while another of this last is the only Parrakeet which I have seen 

 from the Nicobars in addition to P. erythrogenis. It is probable 

 that both of these also inhabit the Andamans and the northern part 

 of Sumatra. Of Loriculus, while L. galgulus would appear to be 

 confined to the Malayan peninsula and Sumatra, and L. asiaticus (so 



* We suspect that Raines's statement of Tanygnathus sumatranus (of which 

 he describes the female only, apparently from a captive individual,) inhabiting 

 Sumatra, needs confirmation as much as that of Eos ornata inhabiting the Malayan 

 peninsula. Dr. Horsfield does not mention any Tanygnathus or Lory as occurring 

 in Java. 



