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CATALOGUE. 
with a white tip ; lower black : the form of the bill is both narrower 
and less deep than in P. Alexandri, and augulates above towards the 
base. The female has the head less pure grey than in the male ; 
and the bill is wholly black."— (Blyth.) 
Length of female about 20 in., of which the middle tail-feathers 
occupy 9i in. ; of wing 7 in. 
The female has the " iris golden-yellow, bill black, feet blackish- 
grey." — (Dr. Cantor.) 
This species also inhabits the Nicobar Islands. 
904. PALJEORNIS OSBECKI, Latham Sp. 
Psittacus javanicus, Osheck, It. Ind. Orient. I. p. 101 
(1757) ; id. Forster, id. English edit. I. p 156. 
(1771). Omelin, S. JST. I. p. 321 (1788). 
Psittacus bimaculatus, Sparr., Mus. Carls, t. 30 (1787). 
Lath., Hist, of B. II. p. 163. 
Psittacus barbatus, Gmelin, S. iV. I. p. 325. Lath., 
Hist. ofB. II. p. 163. 
Palaeornis barbatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIX. p. 233 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 6. Tgtler, Ann. Nat. 
Hist. XIII. n. s. p. 365. 
Psittacus pondicerianus, Gmelin, S. 1^. I. p. 325 (1788). 
(PI. Enl. t. 517. Le Vaill., Berr. t. 31.) Lath., 
Hist, of B. II. p. 162.. Kuhl, Nova Acta, Sfc., 
No. 48. 
Palaeomis pondicerianus, Vigors, Zool. Journ. II. p. 54. 
Swains., Zool. III. n. s. t. 16. McClell., P. Z. S. 
(1839), p. 165. G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 410. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. of Nep. p. 113. Blyth, J. A. S. 
Beng. XY. p. 24 ; XVI. p. 475 ; Ann. Nat. Hist. 
XX. p. 386. 
Belurua barbatus, Bonap., Bev. Zool. (1854), p. 152. 
Psittacus borneus, Gmelin, S. N. I. p. 325. 
Psittacus Osbeckii, Lath., Ind. Orn. I. p. 87 (1790). 
Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 182. Lath., 
Hist. ofB. II. p. 122. 
Psittacus mystaceus, Shaw, Zool. YIII. p. 436, t. 63 
(1811). 
Palaeornis mystaceus, v. pondicerianus, Hodgs., Gray's 
Zool. Misc. (1844), p. 85. 
