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legs fleshy grey ; bill blueish horn, iris variable, yellow in the young, 

 brown in the old birds ; sexes alike. Habitat central and northern hills. 



P. S. All the above species have the inner edge of the central talon 

 produced like a comb, but without teeth. The mark is obviously too 

 general to be significant except in Strix where it is toothed. 



'27^/^ August. 



VII.— TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE PARROT TRIBE. 



Paleornina, Vigors Genus. Pal^egrnis? Species new; Nipalensis, nobis. 



Form. Bill large, very conspicuously arched along the ridge, at base 

 much higher than long, moderately compressed with subconvex sides and 

 broad round back. Tomial line of maxilla, untoothed and unfestooned : 

 hook crenulated within. Mandibula rather short ; its tomial line unnotch- 

 ed and straight ; its tips strongly bent up and squared. 



Cere, very small, entire, and, with the round nares, almost or quite hid. 

 Wings long ; 2nd longest ; 3rd plus the first ; all three narrowed and 

 sharpened towards their points. Tail very long, typical ; the.two central 

 plumes 4|- to 5 inches plus the rest. Feet as in Palceornis. Orbits plumose. 



Colour and Size. Very brilliant green, somewhat shaded with verditer 

 blue on the nape, belly and lining of the wings. Tail paler than the body 

 and shaded externally with yellow ; below, and the^tips and inner vanes, 

 yellow ; throat and a broad half collar, black ; the collar completed dorsal- 

 ly with rosy red ; a large longitudinal bar of sanguine lake color down the 

 shoulders, just outside of the scapulars : bill intense coral red ; iris pale 

 straw ; legs greenish grey ; talons dusky, size large, 22 inches long by 26 

 wide, and 9 to 10 oz. in weight. 



Female rather less, and without any red mark on the wing. Young, 



at first, Mdiolly green with a yellowish bill. Inhabits the Saul Forest 



exclusively, and is not known to the Parrot-tamers. 



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