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322 *Psittacula krameri*, the roseringed parakeet. See on the Indian subspecies of *Psittacula krameri* (Scopoli): S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 169–172. K.N. Dave (1985: 143) says that Indian literary texts and lexica do not distinguish between śuka and kīra as names for all parrots, but that there is reason to believe that smaller species, like the blossomheaded and slatyheaded paroquets were designated as kīra. See on the Indian subspecies of *Psittacula cyanocephala* (Linnaeus), the blossomheaded parakeet; S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 178–182, on *Psittacula himalayana* (Lesson), the Himalayan slatyheaded parakeet, and *P. finschii* (Hume), the Eastern slatyheaded parakeet: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 3, 183–185.