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The Rose-ringed Paroquet is found in flocks o£ considerable size, mostly 
in tlie neighbourhood of cultivation, in cleariligs and on the outskirts of 
forests. It is more frequently caged by the Burmese than any other 
species of Paroquet. 
It breeds in J anuary and February in the holes of trees, and lays either 
four or five white eggs. 
524. PAL^ORNIS FINSCHII. 
FINSCH^S PAROQUET. 
Palaeornis finschi, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 509 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 55 ; Hume ^ 
Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 119 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 160 ; Oates, 
S. F. X. p. 189. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown, nape and sides of the head slaty 
blue ; chin and throat black, produced as a half-collar up the sides of the 
neck ; general colour of the plumage green, yellower below ; the portion 
of the neck next the slaty blue of the head tinged with verdigris ; median 
wing-coverts with a patch of red, forming a conspicuous spot ; tertiaries 
wholly green ; primaries and secondaries with the outer webs dark green, 
edged very narrowly with yellowish, the inner webs brown; under wing- 
coverts bluish green ; basal half of central tail-feathers lavender-blue, the 
edges at the extreme base green ; terminal half pale lilac tipped with yel- 
low ; the other tail-feathers light green on the outer webs, yellow on the 
inner ; the tips of both webs yellow. 
I have not been able to examine a female of this species. Of the allied 
species, P. schisticeps, Dr. J erdon says that in the female the wing-spot is 
barely indicated, and Mr. Hume that it is always absent. The sexes do 
not appear to differ in other respects. 
The young, as in the allied species, probably have the black on the 
throat and collar wanting, and the head greenish. 
Legs and feet pale dirty green ; upper mandible orange-vermilion, tipped 
yellowish ; lower mandible pale yellow ; irides usually creamy white, but in 
some specimens grey, with a fine inner ring of golden yellow ; in others 
pale brown, with an outer ring of white. (Davison.) 
Length 16 to 18 inches, tail 9 to 12, wing 6, tarsus '6, bill from gape 
•8. The female is apparently smaller only in respect to total length and 
length of tail, the latter, according to Mr. Davison, measuring about 
8-5. 
Mr. Blyth (B. Burm. p. 55) records P. schisticeps from the Arrakan 
hills. The nearly allied P. finschii had not at that time been discriminated^ 
