THE LARGE BUHMESE PAROQUET. 
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This species appears to difPer from the other Barbets in habits. Mr. 
Davison says : — For a Barbet this species has a most extraordinary note, 
a low soft whistle. It is generally found in small parties of three or four, 
sometimes in pairs, and occasionally singly, hunting about the leaves and 
branches and trunks of trees, peering into every crevice and cranny in the 
bark, and clinging about in all sorts of positions far more like a Tit than 
a Barbet. Its food consists quite as much of insects as of fruits. It is a 
forest-bird.^^ 
Order V. PSITTACI. 
Family PSITTACIDiE. 
Subfamily PAL^ORNITHINiR. 
Genus PALiEOENIS, Vigors, 
522. PAL^ORNIS INDOBURMANICUS. 
THE LARGE BURMESE PAROQUET. 
Palaeornis alexandri (X.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 257 (part.) ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. 
p. 54. PalaBornis eupatrius (L.), FinscJi, Die Papageien, ii. p. 11 (part.). 
Palaeornis magnirostris {Ball), Hume, S. F. iii. p. 55 ; Ai-mstrony, S. F. iv. 
p. 307; Oates, S. F. v. p. 143; Wardlmo Ramsay, Ihis, 1877; p. 453; Hume ^ 
Dav. S. F. vi. p. 117. Palaeornis indoburmanicus, Hume, S. F. p. 458, 
yiii. p. 86 ; BingJiam, S. F. ix. p. 159 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 189. 
Description. — Male. Forehead,, crown^ lores and feathers round the eyes 
brilliant green ; sides of the head green, tinged with yellow ; chin and 
throat sparingly covered with black feathers ; the extreme base of the 
throat yellowish ; the black of the throat narrowly produced upwards on 
either side of the neck ; a brilliant peach-rose collar round the back and 
sides of the neck ; the general colour of the plumage green, duller and 
tinged with yellow below, most brilliant on the back and wings j the 
primaries and secondaries with the inner edges of the inner webs brown ; 
wing-coverts green, with the concealed inner webs chiefly brown; the 
