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Title: Catalogue of the birds of the peninsula of India, arranged according to the modern system of classification : with brief notes on their habits and geographical distribution, and description of new, doubtful and imperfectly described species
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Jerdon, T. C. (Thomas Claverhill), 1811-1872
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (S.l.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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, and I picked it up, severelywounded but still alive. I have again seen it once or twice in theneighbourhood of well wooded villages, in the northern part of thetable land, and obtained 4 young ones from the nest, in a hole of alofty tree, last December. As I am informed by shikarees that it isnot very uncommon in some of the more wooded districts, I dare sayI have occasionally overlooked it, mistaking it for the last; still it iscomparatively so rare, that I think the previous species was mostprobably the one taken first to Europe from this countrv, and whichtherefore should have been named P. Alexandri. It breeds during thecold season. Length about 20 inches; wing SJ ; tail 12; bill deep cherrv redabove, lighter and more orange red beneath ; feet cinerous. 202.-P. Bengalensis, Vigors.—Psitt. Bengalensis, Gmel-P. erythrocephalus, Gmel.-P. flavicdlaris, Frankl.- Yellow collared Para-Iceet, Lath. Young bnd.-Tooeeah Total,, H.-Iied-headed ringedParakeet. * U^^J^r.lotBfSe^, Kl.Xl.Pt W
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1840.) of the Peninsula of India. 209 This lovely species is never found in the open country, being adenizen of open jungles, and also found in the clearer spaces of thedenser jungles. I have seen it in Goomsoor ; also brought from thejungles of the Tondimans country in the Carnatic ; on the west coast*not uncommon; and even occasionally in low jungly districts in theDeccan. It has the same habits as others of the genus. The P.flavicollaris of Franklin, or plum-headed Parakeet is always found inthe same localities as the red-headed Parakeet, and is considered asthe young bird by shikarees and others ; so, though I have not seen theactual change, yet as the size and structure agree, I have no doubt thatit is the same bird. The three last species are frequently taken when young and caged,learning to repeat words and sentences with facility, and becomingvery tame. Irides light yellow; bill reddish yellow above, beneath blackish.Length 14 ; wing u\; tail 8 to 8£. 203.—P. Columboides, V

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