534 REVIEW OP GENUS i»SlTTACULA. 



ff'. Deej) parrot-green or grass-green above, light parrot-green beneath ; 

 culmcn, .53-.5o; width of upper mandible at base .4**. Hub. — 



Tres Marias Island, western Mexico P. insitUiris RiDGW., $.* 



d^. Forehead yellow, or greenish yellow, the cheeks light green. 



e'. Greater wing-coverts very indistinctly edged witli lighter green ; yellow 



of forehead more restricted, and lower parts less yellowish green. 



/'. Yellow of forehead more restricted. Jlah. — (iuinna and Yene/nela. — 



P. (jHianenHis (Swains.), 9- 

 /^. Yellow of forehead less restricted (usually covering nearly entire fore- 

 head), llab. — Lower Amazons /'. deJkiosa Uidgw., 9- 



e'K Greater wing-coverts distinctly edged with apple-green ; yellow of fore- 

 bead covering entire forehead and lores and tinging crown ; 

 lower parts more yellowish-green. Hah. — Northeastern Colonil)ia 

 (Cartagena) !'■ cxquisita RiDow., 9. 



1. Psittacula crassirostris Taczanowski. 

 (Thick-billed Passerine Parrot.) 



Psittacula crassirostris TACZxy; ., P. Z. S. 1883, 72(Ytiriniaguas, Eastern Pern); Orn. dn 

 P6rou, iii, 188G, 215 (do.). 



Habitat. — Eastern Peru (Yurimaguas) aud Ecuador (RioNapo). 



Sp. char. — " Similar to P. cyanoptera [i. e. P. (/luancnsis ?], but smaller, 

 with more robust bill ; color above darker, the primaries and second- 

 aries more blue, and the under wing-coverts green. Total length 77, 

 tail 40, bill 13, and tarsi 12 millimeters." 



" Green, beneath paler, the rump brighter, anterior portion of second- 

 daries, outer webs of adjacent primaries, and primary coverts ultrama- 

 rine-blue ; under wing-coverts green. Bill thick, whitish ; feet gray ; 

 iris gray. 



" S . Upper parts of the body green, similar to that of P. passerina, 

 with the lower back and rump of a clearer and purer green, nearly like 

 that of the fore part of the ftice ; the green on the lower parts of the 

 body paler and tending to yellowish ; the secondaries to the seventh, 

 outer web of neighboring primaries from the sixth, and the great i)ri- 

 mary coverts of an ultramarine-blue, similar to that of the species men- 

 tioned; the blue of the secondaries is bordered at the extremity with .^ el- 

 lowish green; the under wing-coverts green, excei)t the greater [/. <\ 

 under primary covertsj which are bluish gray; under side of thcMi- 

 miges gray, washed with bluish olive. Tail, green. Bill robust, whit- 

 ish ; feet grayish flesh-color ; iris clear gray. 



"Length of wing 77, tail 40, bill 13, tarsus 12, middle toe 14 milli- 

 meters. 



"Yurimaguas (Stolzmann). 



"Form nearest related to P. cyanoptera from Colombia [P. guianen- 

 .su?], and only differing from it by the bill being much more robust and 

 the blue being more extensive on the wing, of a more uniform, pure, 

 and more intense color. This bird difl'ers from P. passerina by the ab- 

 sence of blue on the rump, on the under wing-coverts, and on the bend 

 of the wing." (Taczan., Orn. tin PcroK, p. 73; translation.) 

 * The male of this species is unknown to me. 



