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small orange feathers between the nostrils being always present instead of sometimes 
absent. 
The range of C. aztec extends over the whole of the hotter parts of the State of Vera 
Cruz from Tampico southwards, and thence to the State of Tabasco and Yucatan, and 
some of the islands off the north-east coast.. It is found also in British Honduras and 
in Eastern Guatemala, where we met with it near Peten and also near Cahabon. It is, 
however, by no means so common in Guatemala as in Eastern Mexico. Passing south 
it occurs in Honduras at San Pedro and Comayagua, being not uncommon, according 
to Taylor, at the latter place’. In Eastern Nicaragua it is abundant, occurring, 
according to Mr. Richmond?*, on the Rio Escondido in large flocks, and in this 
district nearly every collector has found it. Mr. Nutting secured three specimens 
at Los Sabalos 19, and noted that the iris was yellow, and the cere and orbital region 
white. 
The only authority we have for its occurrence in Costa Rica is a specimen sent us 
from that country by Carmiol, but without precise locality; but M. Boucard shot a 
specimen out of a large flock that was feeding on fruits and seeds in the forest at San 
Carlos in February 8, 
6. Conurus ocularis. 
Conurus pertinax ?, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 333°. 
Conurus chrysogenys, Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 11. 
Conurus ocularis, Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 367°; Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 214‘; Ibis, 1871, 
p- 93°; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 197°. 
Viridis, pileo antico vix ceruleo tincto, fronte stricte fusca, area oculorum aurantiaca, parte infra oculos latiore; 
capitis lateribus, genis, gutture et pectore toto viridi-fuscis, abdomine viridi vix aurantiaco tincto : alis 
subtus sicut in C. aztec; rostro corneo, apice pallido; pedibus fuscis. Long. tota circa 9:0, ale 5:5, caude: 
rectr. med. 4°4, rectr. lat. 2°6, rostri culminis 0-8, tarsi 0°55. (Descr. maris exempl. typ. ex Panama. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Calobre (Arcé 4), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan } 23), 
Conurus ocularis is very closely allied to C. eruginosus of Venezuela and Guiana, 
but has the green colour of the crown scarcely tinged with blue, and the orange ring 
round the eye wider below than above, and the abdomen nearly destitute of the orange 
patch in the middle. ‘These differences are very slight, but seem possessed by the 
birds of Panama alone, and thus we were led to separate them by a distinct name in 
1864, and this course has been endorsed by Count Salvadori. 
Our first specimens were sent us by M‘Leannan from his station on the Panama 
Railway °, others subsequently reached us from other parts of the State of Panama 4; 
but the bird does not appear to extend far to the westward, and is apparently absent 
in Chiriqui and in Costa Rica. 
