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526. PALiEORNIS CYANOCEPHALUS. 
THE BURMESE ROSE-HEADED PAROQUET. 
Psittacus cyanocephalus, Limi. Syst. NatA. p. 141. Psittacus rosa, Bodd. Tail. 
PI. Col. p. 53. Psittacus bengalensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 325. Palaeornis 
rosa, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 259 (part.). Palseornis cyanocephalus, Finsch, Die 
Papageien, ii. p. 40 (part.); Wald. Ihis, 1874, p. 284; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burin. 
p. 55; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 118 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bmyham, S. F. 
ix. p. 161. Palaeornis bengalensis, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 16^ iii. p. 56 ; Ann- 
strong, S. F. iv. p. 308 ; Oates, S. F. vii. p. 46. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ cheeks and ear-coverts rosy pink^, chang- 
ing to bluish on the crown and nape; two broad black stripes starting 
from the gape^ passing under the cheeks^ covering the whole throat and 
continued in a very narrow form round the neck ; general colour of 
plumage green_, tinged with yellow on the neck and lower plumage^ most 
intense on the wings ; a patch of deep maroon on the median coverts ; 
quills dusky on the inner webs and on the outer web of the first primary ; 
under wing-coverts bright green ; centre tail-feathers blue, tipped with 
yellow ; the others green on the outer webs_, yellowish on the inner and 
all tipped with brighter yellow. 
The female has the whole head plum-blue ; there is no black on the 
throat_, nor any black collar_, but merely a little dusky brown along the 
sides of the chin ; the fore neck is yellowish, contrasting with the breast ; 
the maroon wing-spot is rather less developed than in the male, but is 
always conspicuous. 
The young are like the female^ but entirely want the wing-spot. 
Cere pale bluish ; upper mandible orange-yellow ; lower mandible 
black ; eyelids grey ; iris yellow ; legs grey ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 13'5 inches, tail 8, wing 5*5, tarsus '5, bill from gape '65. The 
female is not appreciably smaller, but the tail is seldom so long as in the 
male. 
This species is very close to its Indian ally, P. purpureus. This latter 
diflPers principally in having the under wing-coverts blue, not green, and 
in the female wanting {fide Mr. Hume) the maroon wing-spot of the 
male. 
The Burmese Rose-headed Paroquet is found abundantly over all the 
plains of the Province, except perhaps in the extreme south of Tenasserim, 
where Mr. Davison did not observe it. 
It extends to the east to Cochin China, where it appears to be common. 
It ranges through the Indo-Burmese countries into India, where it occurs 
in Bengal and along the lower ranges of the Himalayas as far as Eastern 
Nipal. 
This common Paroquet frequents cultivation and the outskirts of forest 
and clearings. It is usually seen in large flocks and, like most other 
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