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Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 
this species is seen in smaller companies than P. javanicus, which 
have not the same habit of simultaneous descent upon the rice- 
fields. 
3. P. columboides, Vigors (Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. Sc. xi. 
p. 209. pL 3; Ill. Ind. Orn. pi. 18). 
Syn. P.melanorliynchus, Sykes (female or young). Psittacus 
kienerii et Conurus sagittifer columboides, Bourj. Perr. t. 3, 3 a. 
Hab. Forests of Malabar; rare in the Nilgiris. 
4. P. calthraPjE, Layard; Blyth, J. A.. S. xviii. p. 801. 
Syn. P. gironieri , Verreaux. Psittacus viridicollis, Cassin. 
Hab. Mountains of Ceylon. 
5. P. schisticeps, Hodgson, As. Bes. xix. p. 178. 
Syn. Conurus himalayanus, Lesson. 
Hab . Common in the middle and lower regions of the Hima¬ 
laya, extending westward to Pushut, where the late W. Griffith 
observed it in flocks; Naga and Kashya hills (Ya-ma-Doong 
range). Upper Pegu. Captured examples are not unfrequently 
brought to Dacca, but seldom to Calcutta. 
6. P. rosa : Psittacus rosa, Boddaert, ex Buff. PI. Enl. 888. 
Syn. P. bengalensis et P. cyanocephalus (?), Gray, vide Brit. 
Mus. Cat. Psittacidse (1859), pp. 20, 21. 
Hab. The upland jungle-districts of all India proper, with 
Ceylon, Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, Pegu, Martaban, the Tenas- 
serim provinces, and Siam*; replacing in the lower hills, for 
the most part, the P. torquatus of the plains of India, but also 
inhabiting the plains where clad with forest jungle, or otherwise 
well wooded. Buchanan Hamilton states that many breed in 
the Bengal Sunderbans, “ to which they return in the spring 
for that purpose. They come out upon the cultivated country 
in immense flocks so soon as the first crop of rice approaches 
to maturity; for this is their favourite food.”—(MSS.) Great 
* In the Catalogue of the India-house Museum, a specimen is noted 
from China, “ from Reeves’s Collection; ” doubtless an Indian example, 
taken out probably from Calcutta. Is Sonnerat’s Philippine species 
really different—the P. cyanocephalus of Gray?—[Mr. Swinhoe has ex¬ 
amples of this bird from Canton, where it undoubtedly occurs as a feral 
species.— £d.] 
