THE RED-BREASTED PAROQUET. 
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and I think it open to doubt which of the two species occurs in Arrakan. 
In any case I do not think it necessary to include both these closely allied 
species in my work. 
P. schisticeps is a larger bird^ the wing being about 6*5 ; the tail-feathers 
are very broad_, being about '5 at the middle of the centre rec trices, 
whereas in P. finschii they are never more than '3 in breadth, measured 
at the same place ; and the coloration of the upper plumage is greener and 
less tinged with yellow. 
Finsch^s Paroquet has hitherto been procured only in Burmah. Mr. 
Davison met with it in the hills of the main Tenasserim range in the 
northern and central portions of the Division ; Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay got 
it on the Tonghoo hills ; and Capt. Bingham remarks that it is common in 
the Thoungyeen valley. The Paroquet which I found on the Pegu hills 
(S. F. iii. p. 56), and which was provisionally assigned by Mr. Hume to 
P. schisticeps, was probably this species ; and one or both species occur in 
Arrakan. 
Mr. Davison remarks : — ^' It occurs in small parties, frequenting the 
edges and thinner portions of the forest, and the banks of streams. Its 
voice is very similar to that of P. schisticeps of India. In its habits it 
much resembles other Paroquets. I found it feeding on the large red 
flowers of a silk-cotton tree [Bombax?) north of Pahpoon, and about 
Myawadee on the large crimson flowers of a huge creeper .^^ 
The bird I met on the Pegu hills was very common, frequenting the 
higher trees on the ridges. Many young birds were about in the month 
of April. 
525. PALiEORNIS FASCIATUS. 
THE RED-BREASTED PAROQUET. 
Psittacus fasciatus, P. L. S. Muller,Natursyst. Siippl. p. 74. Psittacus vibrissa, 
Bodd. Tall. PI. Enl. p. 30. Palaeornis melanorhynchus, Wagler^ Mon. Psitt. 
p. 511 ; Finsch, Die Papacjeien, ii. p. 70 ; Wald. Ibis, 1873; p. 297, 1874, p. 290 ; 
Bl. B. Burm, p. 57 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. p. 308 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 21 ; Ward- 
law Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 453 ; Hume Bav. S. F. vi. p. 120. Palaeornis 
javanicus (Osheck), apud Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 262. Palaeornis lathami, Finsch, 
Die Papageien, ii. p. 66. Palaeornis fasciatus, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 118 ; 
id. S. F. ii. p. 20, iii. p. 56, vii. p. 163, viii. p. 86 ; Scidly, S. F. viii. p. 243 ; 
Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 160 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 190. 
Description. — Male. A narrow band of black at the base of the upper 
mandible ; forehead, crown, nape, cheeks and ear-coverts dull lilac ; chin 
and upper throat nearly naked ; on each side of these a very broad black 
patch reaching to beyond the ear-coverts ; a collar occupying the hind 
neck, and extending down on each side to the end of the black patches^ 
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