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purple; extreme edge of shoulder yellowish-green; wing-spot marrone, 

 and the coverts underneath the wing and axillaries crimson. 



Female : crown greenish-marrone, on the forehead lighter and 

 bluish, passing on the nape to the deep green of the back , the blue 

 of the rump and upper tail-coverts is tinged with bright green ; sides 

 of face intermixed yellowish-marrone ; throat greenish-yellow; under- 

 pays light-green ; wing, wing-spot, under wing-coverts, and axillaries 

 as in male. 



Young : lighter green, yellowish beneath, and more broadly mar- 

 gined with yellow on the wings ; forehead and rump bluish ; upper 

 tail-coverts bright green; wing-spot, under wing-coverts, and axillaries 

 as in adults. 



The upper mandible in the male is bright coral-red, paler at the 

 tip ; the under mandible dusky, in female lighter ; in the young 

 yellowish-white ; and, according to Dr. Cantor's notes, " has the 

 inner ring of the iris greenish, outer ring pale yellow ; feet dark 

 green." 



From Pinang. 



137. PAl^EORNIS TORaUATUS. 



Psittaca torquata, Brisson (Lear, Psitt. t. 33). 

 From Pinang. 



138. Pal.eornis lojngicauda. 



Psittacus longicaudus, Boddsert, Tabl. des PI. Enl. d'Aub. p. 53 

 (1783); Gould, Birds of Asia, 1858, plate. 

 Psittacus rnalaccensis, Gmelin. 

 Pal. erythrogenys, Lesson (nec Blyth, nec Fraser). 

 Adult and young from Pinang and Malacca. 



The young has the plumage yellowish-green, darkest on the 

 crown, and palest beneath ; a still darker green moustachial streak ; 

 space before the eye, slightly above, broadly beneath, and on lower 

 part of ear-covert ferruginous, intermixed with greenish-yellow ; 

 upper part of ear-covert green, slightly tinged with verditer ; wings 

 above yellowish-green, and having the primaries, secondaries, portion 

 of tertiaries, and speculars indigo-blue on their outer webs, and the 

 three former narrowly edged with yellow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries green ; rump bluish-green, upper tail-coverts yellowish- 

 green ; tail above green, tinged with indigo-blue, and edged with 

 yellowish-green, beneath dusky golden-yellowish ; upper mandible 

 red, pale at tip ; under mandible also pale. 



Length 8 inches, of wing 5-| inches ; tail 3 inches, its outermost 

 feather 1 inch less ; tarsus T 7 ¥ inch ; outer fore-toe T ? 0 inch ; ditto 

 with claw \\ inch. 



139. PalyEOrnis caniceps. 



PalcBornis caniceps, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. pp. 23, 51, 368 (1846); 

 id. xix. p. 233 ; Moore, Catal. Birds Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 621 ; 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, 1857, plate. 



