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PYRRHURA HOFFMANNI GAUDENS Bangs. 



CHIRIQUI PAROQUET. 



Similar to P. h. Jiofmanni but adults always with pileum and 

 nape streaked with yellowish and reddish, and primaries more 

 decidedly bluish, and size averaging slightly larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 220-240 (232); wing, 134-141.5 

 (136.9); tail, 105-116.5 (111.7); culmen, 17-19 (18); tarsus, 13.5- 

 14. 5 (14); outer anterior toe, 17-18.5 (17.7).« 



Adult female.— J jengtli (skins), 217-235 (226); wing, 130.5-137 

 (135.1); tail, 104-111 (108.2); culmen, 16-18 (17.1); tarsus, 13.5- 

 14.5 (14); outer anterior toe, 17-18.5 (17.9).* 



Mountains of western Panama (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 Cliiriqui; Veragua). 



Conunis hoffmanni (not of Cabanis) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1870, 214 



(Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama); Ibis, 1871, 93, part (Veragua). 

 [Conurus] hoffmanni Sclateu and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 112, part 



(Veragua). 

 Pyrrhura hoffmanni Reichbnow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 288, part (Veragua); 

 Consp. Psitt., 1882, 176, part (Veragua); Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 86, part.— 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 230, part (Veragua and Chiriqui, 

 Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1897, 578, part 

 (Volcan de Chiriqui).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 24 

 (Boquete, etc., Chiriqui, w. Panama, 4,000-10,000 ft.). 

 [Pyrrhura] hoffmanni Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 18, part. 



Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, July 30, 1906, 

 103 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). 



Genus BOLBORHYNCHUS Bonaparte. 



Bolhorhynchus Bonaparte, Remarques Obs. Blanchard Psittacides, 1857, 6. 



(Type, B. catharina Bonaparte =PsiiiacttZa lineola Cassin.) 

 Grammopsittaca c Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxv, May 4, 1912, 100. 



(Type, Psittacula lineola Cassin.) 



Very small, wedge-tailed Psittacidse (length about 55-70 mm.) 

 with tarsus as long as or longer than culmen; the maxilla very broad, 

 swollen laterally, broadly rounded on culmen, with unguis short 

 and very broad, its tomium very shallowly notched and lobed; cere 

 strongly convex anteriorly, wholly unfeathered around nostril (the 

 latter set well back) ; outermost primary not attenuated at tip ; tail 

 not more than two-thirds (sometimes scarcely more than half) as 

 long as wing, and coloration wholly green or green with black bars 

 and spots. 



BiU rather small but very thick and swollen, its depth at base very 

 much greater than its length; maxilla decidedly wider than deep, 

 its width at base equal to three-fourths the length of culmen, the 

 unguis short and very broad, its width at base of palatal surface de- 

 cidedly to very much greater than its length, the tip broadly rounded 

 in vertical profile; maxillary tomium very faintly if at all lobed 



« Ten specimens. ^ Eight specimens. c Tpannt], line; iZ-irraKT?, a parrot. 



