on some Burmese Birds. 
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l*. Palasornis magnirostris. 
Palceornis magnirostris , Ball. 
Far from being a mountain species in Burma, as stated 
by Blyth (J. A. S. B. 1875, extra number, p. 54), it is rather 
scarce in the hills, ascending to no great elevation; but it is 
found in vast numbers in the plains; at least such is my ex¬ 
perience in the Tonghoo and Rangoon districts. 
About the middle of October they invade gardens where 
there happen to be guava trees in fruit, by hundreds, and make 
a terrible noise. 
2. Palceornis torquatus. 
I only once met with this Parakeet, and then on the lower 
slopes of the Karen hills. It must be rare, although I 
can give no reason for its being so. 
6. Palceornis melanorhynchus. 
Palceornis melanorhynchus , Wagler. 
The allied species which Mr. Blyth mentions (J. A. S. B. 
1875, p. 57), from the Tenasserim provinces, must have been 
founded on females of the common red-breasted Parakeet. 
In a large series of some sixty or seventy specimens from 
India, the Andaman Islands, the Tenasserim provinces, and 
other parts of British Burma, all the females (whose sex has 
been so determined) are in the plumage which Blyth describes 
as that of the allied race, but none of the males, with one 
exception, a black-billed adult, marked male 33 by Mr. Lim- 
borg. This specimen being the only adult male with both 
mandibles black out of a very large series, inclines me to think 
that Mr. Limborg^s determination was incorrect. From 
Blythes statement (p. 58) it would appear that he had never 
seen males of his allied race; for he surmises that the male 
will be found to possess a coral-red maxilla. 
12. Tinnunculus alaudarius. 
The Kestrel is very abundant in Karen-nee, where the 
rocky precipices afford it good nesting-places. It is by no 
means common in the plains. 
* The numbers are those of Blyth’s Catalogue (J. A. S. B; 1875). 
