572 PSITTACIDZ. 
Conurus finschi is the most northern member of a small section of the genus found 
in the western countries of South America from Bolivia to Colombia, and distin- 
guished by their having a more or less wide scarlet band across the forehead and 
anterior portion of the crown. ‘The lores being only partially instead of wholly red 
associates this Parrot with C. wagleri, from which it is again to be distinguished by the 
scarlet lesser wing-coverts of the under surface of the wing. 
It was first discovered by Arcé, who sent us three specimens from Bugaba, in the 
district of Chiriqui!, and has now been traced to Costa Rica, and even to Eastern 
Nicaragua, where Mr. Richmond® found it to be common on the Rio Escondido, 
where it was usually to be seen feeding in the large trees standing in the plantations, 
but at times in small trees bordering the forest. Here he once saw a flock of about 
twenty-five scattered in low trees that were laden with berries. These birds were 
tame and allowed him to approach them very closely. Mr. Richardson also met 
with C. finschi in the same district. In Costa Rica Mr. Cherrie says this species is 
a rare strageler about San José 4. 
2. Conurus holochlorus. 
Conurus holochlorus, Scl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1859, iv. p- 224'; P. Z. S. 1859, p. 368°; 1864, 
p. 177°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 44°; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 92°; Cat. Strickl. Coll. 
p. 465°; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 2387; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 395°; 
Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 189°. 
Psittacus guianensis, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vig. p. 1 (cf. J. £. Orn. 1863, p. 54)*°. 
Viridis, fere unicolor, subtus paulo pallidior, tectricibus alarum majoribus et margine alari vix ceruleo tinctis : 
alis et cauda subtus olivescentibus, tectricibus subalaribus majoribus ejusdem coloris, reliquis viridibus ; 
oculorum ambitu carneo; rostro flavido; pedibus carneis. Long. tota circa 12-0, ale 6°7, caudee rectr. 
med. 5-7, rectr. lat. 3°3, rostri culminis 1:15, tarsi 0°65. (Descr. exempl. ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe)", Rio Camacho in Nuevo Leon (FB. Armstrong), Sierra Madre and 
Xicotencal in Tamaulipas, Valles in San Luis Potosi (W. B. Richardson), Misantla, 
Santana, Rio Juan Martin, Hacienda Tortugas (F. Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa (de Oca 2, 
C. F. Hoge), Omealea (Swmichrast’); Guatumaua (Constancia °), El Rincon in San 
Marcos and Santa Maria de Quezaltenango (W. B. Richardson), Duefias, San 
Ger6nimo (0. 8. & F. D. G.4); Satvapor, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. Richardson); 
Nicaragua, Omotepe (Mutting 8, W. B. Richardson), 
In Count Salvadori’s key to the species of Conurus this species is placed in a section 
in which the plumage has normally no red patches of feathers, Now that we know 
more of C. rubritorquis with its red throat, and which is evidently a near ally of 
C. holochlorus, this definition must be modified to include (. rubritorquis. If the 
words “except the throat” were added to the definition the key may still stand. The 
