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Dr. Cantor states that " the male has the bill [yellowish] white. 

 Iris pale crimson. Gular pouch rich gamboge yellow. Feet blackish, 

 and the female has the iris narrow, golden round the pupil, the rest 

 golden vandyke. Eyelids brick-colour. Pouch dirty azure, with 

 two transverse black lines. Feet blackish-grey. The young male 

 lias the iris mother o'pearl colour. Bill yellow at the point, and 

 bluish-green at the base. Space round the eyes and pouch yellow, 

 with the transverse black bars indistinct. Feet bluish-black." 



Inhabits Sylhet, Arracan, Tenasserim Provinces, Malayan Penin- 

 sula, and Sumatra. The Rev. J. Barbe states (J. A. S. Beng. x. 

 p. 922) that "both this species and R. suhruficollis, Blyth, are very- 

 common in the Tenasserim provinces, associating in flocks of a dozen 

 or twenty birds, but the two species do not mingle in the same 

 flock." 



R. subruficollis Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. 1843, p. 177, may be di- 

 stinguished from R. plicatus by its much inferior size, though, the 

 wings and tail being proportionally longer, the difference in actual 

 admeasurements is not great, though that of the weight would be 

 considerable; the casque is also much more elevate and highly convex, 

 instead of being flattened above ; there are also no lateral transverse 

 ridges at the basal part of the mandibles. " In the living bird," 

 says the Rev. J. Barbe, " the naked skin of the throat and around 

 the eyes is of a beautiful blue, instead of yellow, as in R. plicatus. ,> 

 Length about 32 inches ; of wing 16^ inches ; tail 9^ inches ; bill to 

 gape 6-| inches, and with its casque nearly 3 inches high, of which 

 the latter occupies a full inch ; it is also broad behind, becoming 

 gradually narrower to the point, whereas that of R. plicatus is much 

 more uniform in its breadth throughout. 



136. PsiTTINUS MALACCENSIS. 



Psittacus malaccensis, Lath.* Ind. Orn. i. p. 130 (1790) ; Swains. 

 Zool. 111. t. 154. 



Psittinus malaccensis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 789 (1842) ; 

 Moore, Catal. Birds Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 608. 



Psittacus incertus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. t. 769. 



Agapornis azureus (Temm.), Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 6. 



Psitt acuta reticulata, Lesson. 



Tana, Malays. 



Male : crown, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright purplish smalt- 

 blue, passing into greyish on the nape, and then to greyish-dusky 

 on the back ; under-parts yellowish-olivaceous, the medial portion 

 being tinged with brownish-ruddy, and edged with bluish ; lower 

 tail-coverts yellowish-green, tipt with blue ; tibial plumes mingled 

 blue and green ; uropygials deep green ; and the rest of the tail- 

 feathers yellow, more or less green-edged ; wing-feathers deep green, 

 margined with yellowish on the coverts, except those of the primaries, 

 secondaries, tertiaries, speculars, and shoulder, which are bluish or 



* But not of Gmelin. 



