Modest Parrakeet. 



Palceornis modestus, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 16. 



This bird is nearly allied to the P. Pondicerianus, but differs in the colour of the cheeks, 

 breast, and mandibles ; it differs also from P. Malaccensis in the paler colour of the cheeks, and 

 that colour not extending further back than the ears, in the colour of the beak, &c. ; it may also 

 be readily distinguished from Mr. Hodgson's Nepaul species by the colouring of the cheeks. 



Habitat ? 



The general colour of the plumage is green; the cheeks are pale fawn; frontal band, greenish 

 black; beak, black. 



The branch upon which the Parrakeet is perched, is copied from a drawing of Colonel Sykes'; 

 it is the Ficus glomerata, a wild fig of Dukhun, called by the Mahrattas " Oomhur" to which the 

 Colonel has attached the following memorandum: — "In the Ficus glomerata the fruit not 

 unfrequently grows from the trunk, as well as from the branches. The only difference that I 

 observed between the Ficus glomerata and Ficus racemosa, is that in certain soils the fruit of the 

 F. racemosa ceases to be sessile, but is seated on somewhat long fruit-stalks, which is seldom the 

 case with the F. glomerata." 



