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broad subterminal band of pale dull greenish blue or bluish green, 

 middle rectrices with one or more indistinctly defined subterminal 

 bands of pale brownish gray, and under tail-coverts much paler and 

 duller blue, margined terminally with duU orange-yellow. (First 

 plumage probably with the blue largely replaced by pale brownish 

 gray.) 



Adult male.— Length (skms), 768-900 (835); wing, 365-400 (382); 

 tail, 450-580 (523.7); culmen, 61-72 (65.7); tarsus, 30.5-36 (33.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 40.5-49.5 (45.6)." 



Adult fernale.— Length, (skms), 762-807 (785); wing, 367-392 

 (376.3); tail, 470-525 (503); culmen, 60.5-66 (62.8); tarsus 33-34 

 (33.7); outer anterior toe, 41-45.5 (43.3).^ 



Eastern Panama (Chepo) and southward tlirough Colombia (mouth 

 of Rio Atrato; Gulf of Uraba; Puerto Nina, Rio Magdalena; Trojas 

 de Cataca, Fundacion, and Arihueca, Santa Marta; La MureHa, Rio 

 Bodoquera, Coqueta), eastern Ecuador (Rio Napo; Gualaquiza), 

 eastern Peru (Chamicuros; Yurimaguas), Venezuela (Rio Orinoco; 

 La Ceiba; Rio Guarapiche), British Guiana (Corentyna River; 

 Georgetown), and Dutch Guiana (Paramaribo; Surmam) to Brazil 

 (Pernambuco; Mexiana Island; Santarem; Rio Jurua; Lagoa de 

 Seco; Fazenda Esperan^a; Chapada, Mattogrosso) and Bolivia (Prov- 

 ince del Sara; Santa Cruz de la Sierra; lower Rio Beni). 



[Psittacus] ararauna Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 96 (South America; « 

 based on Psittacus maximns cyano-croceus Aldrovandi, Om., 1. 11, c. 2; 

 Willughby, Orn., 110, pi. 15; etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 139.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 i, pt. 1, 1788, 313.— Latham, Index, Orn., i, 1790, 83. 



Psittacus ararauna Bechstein, Lathams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793, 178, 697. — 

 Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 22, and app., p. 6. — Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, 

 1811, 391.— KuHL, Conap. Psitt., 1820, 17.— Lear, Parrots, 1832, pi. 8.— 

 Hahn, Orn. Atlas, Papag., 1834, 12, pi. 2.— Dubois, Orn. Gal., 1839, pi. 36. 



o Eleven specimens. 

 & Three specimens. 



c According to Hellmayr (Spix's Types, p. 577) the type locality is Pernambuco, 

 e. Brazil, ex Marcgrave. 



