. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . distiuct as a rule. Length about 23; tail 14; wing 8*5; tarsus So; bill fromcere 1*2 ; height of upper mandible 1. Distribution. The Andaman Islands ; Cocos Islands. Habits, Sfc. Similar to those of the allied races. 250 , PSITTACID^. 1138. PalaBornis torquatus. The Rose-ringed Paroquet. Psittacus torquatus, Bodd. Tab. PI. Enl. p. 32 (1783). Palseornis torquatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 4; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, p. 262; Horsf. <§• M. Cat. ii, p. 611; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 257 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 232; Hume, S. F. i, p.
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . distiuct as a rule. Length about 23; tail 14; wing 8*5; tarsus So; bill fromcere 1*2 ; height of upper mandible 1. Distribution. The Andaman Islands ; Cocos Islands. Habits, Sfc. Similar to those of the allied races. 250 , PSITTACID^. 1138. PalaBornis torquatus. The Rose-ringed Paroquet. Psittacus torquatus, Bodd. Tab. PI. Enl. p. 32 (1783). Palseornis torquatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 4; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, p. 262; Horsf. <§• M. Cat. ii, p. 611; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 257 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 232; Hume, S. F. i, p. 170 ; ii, p. 13; xi, p. 54; id. Cat. no. 148 ; Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 55; fiMme ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 118 ; Leyge, Birds Ceyl. p. 171; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 141; id. in Humes N. ^ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 85; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 108 ; Neionham, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. iv, p. 54 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx, p. 433. *# Tota, Lybar Tata, H.; Gallar, in N. W. P.; Tiya, Tiya tota, Beng.;Ragii, Mahr.; ChiUuha, Telegu; Eilli, Tarn.; Eana giraioa, Cing.; Kyay-gyot, Burm,. Fig. 70.—Head of P. torquatus, \. Coloration. Male. Very similar to P. eupatria, except that thereis no red wing-spot. General colour bright green; a fine blackishline from nostril to eye; occiput, nape, and cheeks tinged withpale greyish blue ; a rose collar round the neck except in front;chin and a band from the mandible to each side of the rose collarblack; smaller and middle upper wing-coverts considerably palergreen than the greater coverts and quills; median tail-feathersgreen at the base, then bluish grey; other tail-feathers green onthe outer webs, yellow on the inner, all tipped with yellow anddull yellow beneath ; lower parts paler and yellower than uppersurface ; wing-lining greenish yellow. Female. No black band nor rose collar, but an indistinct emerald-green ring round the neck. Young birds resembles females. Bill cherry-red; irides pale yellow; feet cinereous (Jerdon).Upper mandible red, lower varying from red
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