THE IBIS. 
No. XVII. JANUARY 1863. 
I .—Catalogue of the Birds of India, with Remarks on their Geo¬ 
graphical Distribution . By Edward Blyth, Curator of the 
Asiatic Society’s Museum, Calcutta. Part I., containing 
Scansores and Raptores. 
[This catalogue will include, besides the birds of India proper and 
Cashmere (to which Mr. Jerdon confines his attention in his work now in 
preparation), the species found in Ceylon, Assam, the British Burmese 
territories, and the Malayan peninsula, down to Singapore, the Andaman 
and Nicobar Islands, and what little is known of the Ornithology of the 
Maldives and Laccadives.] 
Order SCANSORES. 
Earn. PSITTACIDjE. 
Genus Pal^ornis, Vigors (including Belocercus, Muller). 
1. P. alexandri : Psittacus aleocandri, L. (Edwards, B. 
pi. 292. f. 1.) 
Syn. Vide Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat. Psittacidse (1859), p. 18. 
Hab. The Alexandrian Parrakeet inhabits the hilly regions of 
all India, from the sub-Himalayas to Ceylon, inclusive, with 
those of Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, and the Tenasserim provinces 
as low as Amherst province. According to Dr. Mason, “ it is 
found in the provinces Amherst, Pegu, and Arakan; but I never 
saw it,” he remarks, t( in Tavoy or Mergui.” Neither did I ob¬ 
serve it in the interior of the province of Martaban, nor towards 
the coast upon the hills near Moulmein. It has been received 
from Siam, and also from the Andaman Islands*. In Nepal, 
* A living specimen, however; very possibly a native of India that had 
been taken from Calcutta to Port Blair in the first instance. 
YOL. V. 
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