CONURUS. O75 
In his further account of this bird, published in Lawrence’s ‘ Birds of North-western 
Mexico,’ Grayson speaks of its great tameness and his reluctance to kill specimens for 
his collection3. 
The habits of C. brevipes thus differ greatly from those of C. holochlorus. 
5. Conurus aztec. 
Conurus astec, Souancé, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1857, p. 97'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 888°; Moore, 
P. Z. S. 1859, p. 59°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 187°; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 280°; 1870, 
p. 837°; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 120’; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 46°; Sumichrast, La Nat. 
v. p. 238°; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 163"°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, 
p. 373"; 1890, p. 88". 
Conurus aztec, Souancé, Icon. Perr. t. 12. f.2'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. viii. p.185™; ix. p. 207"; 
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 35°°; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 937; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1883, 
p. 455’*; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 407"; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 291” ; 
Stone & Baker, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1890, p. 2057; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 192”; 
Richmond, Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 519”. 
Psittacus pertinaz, juv., Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p. 1 (cf. J. £. Orn. 1863, p. 54)™. 
Supra viridis, fronte anguste fusca, cera inter et circum nares plumulis aurantiacis semivestita; capitis lateribus 
et genis dorso concoloribus: subtus fusco-viridis, abdomine flavescentiore, plumarum rhachidibus omnibus 
nigricantibus ; alis cerulescentibus, extrorsum viridibus et nigricante terminatis, subtus fuscis, tectricibus 
majoribus concoloribus, reliquis viridibus; rostro corneo, apice pallido ; pedibus nigricantibus. Long. tota 
circa 9°5, alee 5-2, caude rectr. med. 4°6, rectr. lat. 2-4, rostri culminis 0:8, tarsi 0°5. (Descr. exempl. ex 
Yucatan. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico ! (Deppe**), Tampico (W. B. Richardson), Vera Cruz (Boucard), Misantla 
(F. D. G., Ferrari-Perez, M. Trujilio), Vega del Casadero, La Antigua, Sochiapa, 
Playa Vicente (Boucard ?, M. Trujillo), Jalapa, San Lorenzo near Cordova, Plan 
del Rio 1° (Ferrari-Perez), Omealca, Cosamaloapam (Swmichrast °), Atoyac, Teapa 
(Mrs. H. H. Smith), N. Yucatan, Citilpech, Tekanto, Ticul, Labna (Stone & 
Baker ?*), Merida (Schott), Izamal }8, Holbox I.11 (G. F. Gaumer), Guichicovi 
(Sumichrast® 1°); British Honpuras, Belize river (Leyland? +), Orange Walk, 
Belize (G. F. Gawmer); GuatemaLa, Peten, Cahabon (0. 8S. & F. D. G.1") ; Honpuras, 
Omoa (Leyland?), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®), Comayagua (G. C. Taylor’); 
Nicaragua, La Libertad (W. B. Richardson), Los Sabalos (Nutting !°), Blewfields 
(Wickham®), R. Escondido (fichmond **), Greytown (Holland); Costa Rica 
(Carmiol), San Carlos (Boucard °). 
The wings of the species of the section of Conurus to which C. aztec belongs are 
partly blue, the primary-coverts and the quills being more or less tinted with blue. 
In having no wide orange-red band across the forehead it can be distinguished at once 
from C. canicularis, and in the absence of yellow about the eye from C. ocularis, The 
most nearly allied species is C. nanus of Jamaica, but may be recognized by the 
throat and breast being olive tinged with brown instead of dusky brown, and in the 
