CATALOGUE. 
623 
PalsBornis nigrirostris, Hodgs., Or ay's Zool, Misc. (1844), 
p, 85 {the young female) . 
Osbeck's Parrakeet. 
Whiskered Parrakeet, Latham. 
Mustache Parrakeet, Latham, Shaw. 
Bearded Parrakeet, Latham. 
Bornean Parrakeet, Latham. 
Javan Parrakeet, Shaw, Zool. VIII. p. 426. 
Modest Parrakeet, Fraser. 
Madna (i. e. ' charming, pleasing '), the Red-billed, 
Hind., Blyth, 
Kajla (as having the black pigment Kajal applied to 
the eyebrows, alluding to the black loral line), the 
Black-billed, Hind., Blyth, 
Imeit Bhela, Nepal, Hodgson. 
Bettet, Java, HorsfieJd. 
a.b.S ? . Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
c, d. ^ ? . Tenasserim. From Heifer's Collection. 
e. S- Siam. From Finlayson's Collection. 
¥. g. S ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
" The upper mandible of the male is always bright coral-red ; that 
of the female is usually black, but often more or less mingled with 
red. In a presumed female, observed in captivity, the upper mandible 
changed from black to coral-red when the bird was about eighteen 
months old. This bird is common in Bengal, Nepal, Assam, Sylhet, 
Arracan, Tenasserim, Malayan peninsula (to latitude of Pinang), 
Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. It does not appear to occur wild in 
Pondicherry, or any other part of the Indian peninsula, or in 
Ceylon."— (Blyth.) 
" All Parrakeets love the shelter of hills, and breed there exclu- 
sively, though they wander a good deal in the cold season, especially 
in the plains." — (Calcutta Journ. VII. p. 561.) 
We have deemed it advisable to adopt for this species the name of 
P. Oshecki, in preference to that of javanicus or himaculatus, as 
M. Osbeck was the first to give it a systematic name, and as the 
bird is an inhabitant of other countries besides Java. 
