CATALOGUE. 
619 
Belocercus barbatalatus, Muller et Schlegel. 
Palseornis erytbrogenys, Less., Tr. d'Orn. p. 215 (1831). 
The Malayan Ring Parrakeet. 
Blossom-cheeked Parrakeet, Shaw. 
BuRONG Bayau, Sumatra, Baffles. 
Madna Bhola of the Calcutta dealers, Blyth. 
A. Malacca. Presented by General Tbomas Hardwicke. 
h. c. Pinang. d. e. Adult and young. Malacca. Pre- 
sented by Dr. Cantor. 
f. Drawing. From Raffles's Collection. 
The young has the plumage yellowish-green, darkest on the 
crown, sides of throat, and palest beneath ; wings above the same, 
and having the primaries, secondaries, portion of tertiaries, and 
speculars bluish on their outer webs, and the three former narrowly 
edged with yellowish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries green ; 
rump more bluish-green, and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish- 
green ; tail bluish-green, and edged with yellowish-green, the latter 
beneath dingy, dusky yellowish-green ; before the eye, slightly above, 
and broadly beneath, ferruginous, intermixed with greenish-yellow ; 
upper mandible red, pale at tip, and the under one also pale. 
Length 8 in., of wing 5f in., tail 3 in., its outermost feather 1 in. less, 
tarsus in., outer fore toe i^in., ditto, with claw, l|-in. 
Sir Stamford Eaffles states, that " it is this Parrot that figures in 
the fables and poetry of the Malays, in which it is represented to be 
endowed with a supernatural degree of intelligence." 
" These handsome Parrakeets are not uncommon in Labuan, and 
are to be seen in the early morning flying about above the tops of 
the trees in small flocks of six or eight, uttering in their flight a loud 
quick scream, very much like the note of the common Swift. They 
are particularly fond of the fruit of the Dryahalanops camjphora, 
which they split open, and eat the curious crumpled cotyledons, in 
spite of their pungent taste and smell of turpentine. A specimen 
was shot while feeding upon the seeds of the DiUenia speciosa, a 
shrub about 10 or 15 feet high ; and it is the only instance in which 
we have known them venture so near the ground. When first seen, 
he was busy opening the capsules of the plant and scraping out the 
seeds with his beak, never omitting to clip oS" at a single bite every 
one he emptied ; having done this, he dropped himself under the 
twig he sat on, swinging by one leg to watch it fall ; when it reached 
