CATALOGUE. 
611 
Ktai Piiotjngkha, Arracan, FTiayre. 
Laboo Girawa, Ceylon, Layard. 
A. B. ^. Bengal. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
c. ^. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
d. ^. Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's Collection. 
e. $ . Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
/. $ . Tenasserim. From Heifer's Collection. 
g. Drawing. From F. (B.) Hamilton's Collection. 
" Inhabits the hilly regions of all India proper, from the Sub- 
Himalayas to Ceylon inclusive, Assam, Sylhet, Arracan, and the 
Tenasserim provinces." — (Bly th.) 
" This species is much more common in the peninsula of India 
than the next. The first time I became avrare of its being found 
here was seeing one carried off in an open space in the jungles of 
Malabar by a Shaheer (Falco Aldrovandi), which dropped it on my 
firing at it. I have also seen it once or twice in the neighbourhood 
of well-wooded villages, in the northern part of the table-land, and 
obtained four young ones from the nest, in a hole of a lofty tree, in 
December. It breeds during the cold season." — (Jerdon.) 
In Ceylon, this " is found in countless thousands at Batticaloa, 
nestling in the cocoa-nut trees, and resorting to them by night in 
vast flocks. I also found it near Matelle in the central province, 
and I shot a single bird at Grillymalle. The natives tell me they 
breed in hollow trees, and lay two round white eggs. The young 
are much sought after to rear as pets, and they are taught to speak 
many native words with great distinctness." — (Layard.) 
897. PALuEOBNIS TORQUATUS, Brisson Sp. 
Psittaca torquata, Brisson, Orn. IV. p. 323 (1760). 
(PZ. Enl, 551. Le Vaill, Perr. tt. 22, 23, 39, 42, 
43.) 
Palaeornis torquatus, Vigors, Zool. Journ. II. p. 50. 
SyJces, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 96. Lear, Bsitt. t, 33. 
Sundevall, BJiysiogr. Sdllsk. Tidslc. McClelland, 
P. Z. S. (1839), p. 165. Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XI. 
p. 207. G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 409. 
Kodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844), p. 85 ; Cat. B. 
of Nep, p. 113. Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. XII. 
p. 90 ; Cat. B. Mas. A. S. Beng. p. 4 ; J. A. S. 
