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the ground, he testified his satisfaction by a low chirp, and, giving 
himself a vigorous swing, caught the perch with his other foot, and 
walked gravely along to another capsule, not hopping, hut placing 
one foot before the other in a most old-fashioned way. Another of 
these Parrakeets, which had been pinioned by a shot without being 
otherwise injured, was placed in a cage, where, soon finding his two 
long tail-feathers to be an incumbrance, he deliberately turned round, . 
pulled them out, and then walked round the cage, evidently to try 
the effect of his contrivance." — (Messrs. Motley and Dillwyn, Nat. 
Hist, of Labuan, 1855.) 
902. PALJEOBNIS ERYTHBOGENYS, Blytli. 
Palseornis erythrogenys, BlytJi, J. A. S\ Beng. XY. 
pp. 23, 51, 369 (1846) ; XIX. p. 233 ; Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 6. 
Belurus eythrogenys, Bonap., Bev. Zool. (1854), p. 152. 
The Eed-cheeked Parrakeet. 
a. S (type). Nicobar Islands. Presented by the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal. 
" General colour bright green, more yellowish below, and tinged 
in the male with hoary greyish-blue on the nape and back ; winglet 
and primaries blue, the latter margined and broadly tipped with 
green ; middle pair of tail-feathers also blue, margined with green 
for the basal half, and the rest of the tail-feathers chiefly or wholly 
green above, and all of them duU yeUow below ; cap emerald-green, 
and uniformly coloured with the back (save where the latter is 
tinged with grey in the male) ; a well-defined narrowish black streak 
from the nostril to the eye, and black moustache as in P. malac- 
censis ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts only are red ; upper mandible 
coral-red, with a white tip ; the lower black. The female merely 
differs in having the crown, nape, and back quite uniform green, 
without the hoary-blue tinge conspicuous in the male ; and the 
upper mandible is more or less black, like the lower one. A finer 
specimen of the male has the nape and iuterscapularies light yellow- 
ish, rather than tinged with hoary-grey, and the under-parts are also 
more yellowish. A still finer male, just deceased, has the cheeks 
and ear-coverts, continued forward to the beak, of a beautiful bright 
cherry-red, and devoid of the lake or ' peach-blossom ' tinge pre- 
vailing on the same parts of P. malaccensis, and which, in the latter 
species, is continued round the nape ; the crown, also, is not of the 
