BIRDS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ASIA. 



Madrid (charming, pleasing), the red-billed 

 bird : Kajld (as having the black pigment, 

 hdjal, applied to the eyebrows ; alluding to the 

 black loral line), — the black-billed : Hind. 

 Imiit Bhela Nepal (Hodgson). Bettet Java- 

 nese. Inhabits the hiily parts of Bengal, Ne- 

 pal, Assam, Sylhet, Arracan, Tenasserim, Ma- 

 layan peninsula (to latitude of Penang), Sumat- 

 ra, Java, and Borneo. It is extremely doubt- 

 ful as an inhabitant of the Pondicherry coast, 

 or any other part of peninsular India. 



Subfam. PLATYCERCINiE (Ground-Parra- 

 keets). 



Genus APROSMICTUS, Gould. 

 A. erythroj^tcnis, (Gould's B. A. Vol. Y. 

 pi. 18.) 



SVN. Psittacus erythropterus, Gmelin. 

 Ps. inelanotus, Shaw 



Inhabits E. and S. Australia ; Timor ; N. 

 Guinea. 



Genus PLATYCERCUS, Vigors. 



Pi. flaviventris, (Gould's B. A. Vol. V. pi. 

 24.) 



Syn. Psittacus fluviventris, Temmiack. 

 Ts. Brownii, KuM. 

 Ps. caledonicus ? Latham. 



Inhabits V. D. Land ; Islands in Bass's 

 Straits. 



Sub-fam. LORIINiE (Lories). 



Section 1. (With the tongue not filamented). 



Genus ECLECTUS, Wagler. 



JS. pohjchloros, (Edwards, pi. 231 ; Dauben- 

 ton's PI. Enl. 514). 



Syn. Psittacus polychloros, Scopoli. 



Ps. magnus et Ps. siuensis, Gmelin. 



Ps. viridis, Latham. 



Ts. lateralis, Shavr. 



Muscarinus prasiaus, Lesson. 



Bira-mohan (' prized favorite'), Hind. 

 Inhabits the Moluccas. 



i?, grandis (Brown, III. Zool. pi. 6 ; Dau- 

 bentou's PI. Enl. 683). 



SYN. Psittacus ceylonensis, Bodilaert. 



Ps. grandis et Ps. janthinus, Gmelin. 

 Ps. guebiensis, var., Latham. 



Lal-mohan (' red fnvoiite'), Hind. Inhabits 



the Moluccas. 



Genus LORICULUS, Blyth. 



L. pumilus (Edwards, pi. 293, f. 2). 



SvN. Psittacus pumili';, Scopoli. 

 Ps. galgulus, thaw. 



Se7'en dale, SinJada, Malayan : Serlndit, 

 Sum. Intiabits the Malayan peninsula, where 

 very wmmon : also Sumatra, 



Z. vernaUs (Swainsou's Zool. III., 2nd series, 

 pi. I ; and figured as identical with the preced- 

 ing species, apud Wagler, in Nat, Zibr., Psit- 

 tacidce, pi. 24). 



Syn. Psittacus vernalis, Sparrman. 

 Lathan, (' pendent'), Hind. Kyai-tha-da, 

 Arracan ; SUindid, and Silinditum, Jav. In- 

 habits the Hilly parts of India, from the sub- 

 Himalayan region to S. India, also Assam, Syl- 

 het, Arracan, Tenasserim, Java :in the Malayan 

 peninsula it appears to be completely replaced 

 by L. pumilus ; and in the Philippines and also 

 in Cejlon, by the next species. 



L. philippensis ? ( Edwards, pi. 6 ; Lear's 



Psittacidce, pi. 41 ?) 



Syn. Psittacus philippensis ? Brisson. 

 Ps. asiaticus, Latham. 

 Ps. indicus, Gmelin. 



Psittacula rubrifrons ? Vigors. P. Z. 6. 1831, p. 97 



Inhabits Philippines (?) : Ceylon. 

 Section II. (With filamented tongue.) 

 Genus LOBIUS, Brisson. 



L. philippensis, Brisson (Edwards, pi. 170 • 

 PI. Enl. 168). 



Stn. Psittacus lory, L. 



L. tricolor, Stephens. 



Inhabits the Moluccas ; Philippines ? 



L. domicella (Edwards, pi. 171 ; PL Enh 

 168 ; Nat, Lihr., Psittacidce, pi. 18). 



Syn. Psittacus domicella, L. 

 Ps. raja^ Shaw. 

 Ps. rex, Becbstein. 

 Ps. radhea, Vieillot. 



Inhabits the Moluccas. 



L. garrulus (Edwards, pi. 172 ; PI. Enl. 

 216; Swainson's Zuol. III. 2nd series, I 

 pi. 12). 



SYN. Psittacus sarrulus, et Ps. aurora, L. 

 Ps. mcluccensis, Brisson. 



Inhabits the Moluocas. 



Subgenus EOS, Wagler. 



E. rubra (Edwards, pi. 173). 



Syn. Psittacus ruber, Gmelin, 

 Ps. borneus, Latham. 

 Ps. cseruleatus, Sliaw. 

 Ps. cyanonolus, Vieillot. 



Inhabits Borneo, Celebes, &c. 



E. cyanostriata, G. R. Gray {JR. Genera of 

 Birds, pi. 103. 



SYN. Lorius bornens, Lesson. 



Blue-ucckfil Lory, Latham. 



Inhabits Borneo, Celebes, &c. 



E. ornata (Edwards, pi. 174 ; Tl. Enl, 

 522.) 



Slf^i fjittacus oniatus, Gmelin, 



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