580 PSITTACIDA. 
Conurus lineolatus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 137°; 1862, p. 96"; Salv. Ibis, 1869, p. 319°. 
Bolborhynchus lineolatus, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 180°; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 94°; Salvad. Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xx. p. 239". 
Myiopsitta catharina, Bp. Compt. Rend. xliv. p. 588 ”. 
Supra viridis, fronte et loris paulo cerulescentioribus, dorso toto, cervicis lateribus, hypochondriis et tectricibus 
alarum plumis omnibus nigro terminatis: subtus medialiter viridis immaculatus, tectricibus subcaudalibus 
nigro punctatis, remigibus nigris extrorsum viridi limbatis, subalaribus prasinis; rostro et pedibus flavis. 
Long. tota circa 6°5, ale 4:1, caude 2°3, rostri culminis 0:6, tarsi 0°45. (Descr. exempl. ex Volcan de 
Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico! (White*), Cordova (Sallé5), Coatepec (Ferrari-Perez), Cozumel I. 
(Cabot °)t; Guaremata, Volcan de Fuego (0. 8S. & F. D. G."!), Chiquimula 
(Mus. Soc. Econ. de Guatemala) ; Costa Rica, Angostura (Carmiol ®), Naranjo de 
Cartago (Zeledon*) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé).—VENEZUELA !21 
This pretty little Parrot differs from all other members of the genus Bolborhynchus 
in having the back and flanks conspicuously banded with black. It was first described 
by Cassin from Mexican specimens in 1853, in the ‘Proceedings of the Academy of 
Philadelphia’!, and figured two years afterwards in the ‘Journal’ of the same Society 2. 
Its range in Mexico seems restricted to the mountains of Vera Cruz, where Sallé 
obtained a specimen near Cordova ®, and Sefior Ferrari-Perez others in August and 
September at Coatepec, near Jalapa. The origin of a specimen in Mr. White’s 
collection ? cannot be given with certainty, as it may have been taken to Mexico from 
a distance. It has been stated that Dr. Cabot had a specimen in his collection from 
the island of Cozumel ®, but no trace of it existed when Salvin examined this collection 
in 1874. 
In Guatemala, B. lineolatus is by no means common, and but few specimens occurred 
in the native-made collections of Vera Paz. We once came across a small flock in 
November 1861, in a tree overhanging the road which winds up the mountain-side 
above the rancheria of Calderas on the northern slope of the Volcan de Fuego, and 
secured several specimens before the rest took fright and flew away. In 1873 there 
was a mounted bird of this species in the museum of the Sociedad Economica de 
Guatemala, labelled as having been obtained at Chiquimula, a town to the eastward of 
the city, in a valley draining into that of the Motagua river. 
In Costa Rica this Parrot has been reported from several places, and in the adjoining 
part of the State of Panama it seems to be not uncommon on the slopes of the Volcan 
de Chiriqui. 
PSITTACULA. 
Psittacula, lliger, Prodr. p. 200 (1811) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 240. 
This genus contains the smallest Parrots of the American continent. As in 
Bolborhynchus, the bill is rather swollen, the cere bare with a few isolated bristles, the 
nostrils being fully exposed ; the tomia of the maxilla has a very distinct tooth; the 
