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only species, besides that mentioned, at all closely allied to the present bird is 
C. brevipes. 
C. leucophthalmus (Mill.), commonly called C. pavua (Bodd.) or P. guianensis (Gm.), 
has a general resemblance, but may at once be distinguished by its yellow greater 
under wing-coverts. 
Deppe seems to have been the first collector to send specimens of C. holochlorus to 
Europe; but his specimens were ascribed to C. guianensis 11, and it was not until 1859 
that Mr. Sclater separated it under the name it now bears 1. 
This Parrot is common in Eastern Mexico from the States of Nuevo Leon and 
Tamaulipas southwards through Vera Cruz, but we have no record of it in Western 
Mexico, nor even on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In Guatemala it is abundant all 
over the central plateau and the mountain-slopes towards the Pacific, ranging from an 
altitude of 6000 or 7000 feet down to less than 1000 feet above the sea-level. At the 
‘ripening of the crops of maize or Indian corn large flocks assemble and do great 
damage by eating the grain before it is gathered. It is said to breed in the ravines 
intersecting the mountains between Chimaltenango and Panajachel, and one of them 
is called E] Barranco de Los Chocoyos from the number of these birds frequenting it— 
“Chocoyo” being its familiar name. Southward of Guatemala we trace it to Salvador 
and Nicaragua, where, on the island of Omotepe, Mr. Nutting says § that the number 
of these Parrots to be seen around the lagoons is something almost incredible, and the 
air seems fairly to tremble with their cries. He could recall no other species of bird 
swarming in such numbers. In Costa Rica we have no tidings of it, its place being 
taken by C. finschi. 
3. Conurus rubritorquis, 
Conurus rubritorquis, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1886, p. 538, t. 56°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1892, p. 328°; Salvad. 
This, 1893, p. 122°. 
C. holochloro similis, sed minor, rostro minore; gutture toto plumis coccineis notato. Long. tota circa 11-0, 
ale 5°7, caude rectr. med. 4°8, rectr. lat. 2°5, rostri culminis 1:1, tarsi 0°65. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex 
patria ignota. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Satvapor, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. Richardson); Nicaracua, Matagalpa 
(W. B. Richardson *). 
This Conurus was described by Mr. Sclater from a specimen living in the Gardens 
of the Zoological Society. It had been obtained from a Liverpool dealer, but from 
what part of America was unknown. Mr. Sclater says nothing as to its affinity to the 
known species, merely comparing it in size with C. ewops of Cuba. Count Salvadori 
examined the type in 1891 when compiling his catalogue of Psittacide, and came to 
the conclusion that it was an abnormal individual of C. holochlorus, in which an unusual 
number of red feathers had been developed on the throat. The following year we 
