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it at any considerable elevation, but I see it is enumerated in 
Mr. Elliott's catalogue as found in the Southern Mahratta country, 
but only during the rains. It is found in small flocks, and while 
feeding keeps up a continual feeble chirping. I have found in the 
stomach of several birds a soft pulpy vegetable mass, with a few 
seeds. I am informed by a gentleman that the species from Malacca 
had the same habit of sleeping with its head downwards. Irides 
whitish-yellow; bill and legs orange." 
" Neither the Eclecti nor the Loriculce have the tongue filamented 
as in the Loriince, with which they have been generally, but quite 
erroneously, classed. These two genera form a particular and pecu- 
liarly Asiatic division of the FsittacincB, immediately preceding the 
LoriincB ; such, at least, is the result of our long-continued study of 
living specimens." — (Blyth.) 
911. LOBIGULUS A STATIC US, Latham Sp. 
Psittacus asiaticus. Lath., Ind. Orn. I. p. 130 (1790) ; 
Gen. Hist, of B. II. p. 264. {Edwards, IB. t. 6.) 
Loriculus asiaticus, BlytTi, J. A. S. Beng. XVIII. p. 801 ; 
XIX. p. 236 ; Cat. B. A. S. Beng. App. p. 312. 
Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. n. s. p. 261. 
Psittacus indicus,* Gmelin, S. I. p. 349 (1788). 
Psittacula indica, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 423. 
Loriculus indicus, Bonap., Bev. Zool. (1854), p. 155. 
Eed and G-reen Indian Parrot, Latham. 
GrIEA-MALITCHIA. 
PoL-GiEAWA (' Flower Parrot '), Ceylon, Layard. 
a. Drawing. Ceylon. From Jonville's Collection. 
" Differs from L. vernalis in having the crown deep red, passing to 
a saffron hue on the nape, and in some specimens over much of the 
back, while the fore part of the neck is tinged more or less deeply 
with verditer. This appears to be wholly confined to Ceylon." — 
(Blyth.) 
" Kandy, Putlam, Caltura, Galle, Hambantotte, and Gillymalle, in 
Ceylon, are the various localities where I have most plentifully pro- 
cured this pretty little Parrakeet. At Gillymalle, they were in such 
abundance, that the flowering trees were literally alive with them ; 
* This name is inapplicable, inasmuch as this species is oiot found in India 
proper. 
