150 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



C[onurus] carolinensis Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 398 (Illinois); Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 270, part.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 496, 

 part. 



Centurus carolinensis Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 189, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., 

 iv, 1842, 30G, part. 



Arara carolinensis Selby, Nat. Libr., Parrots, 1836, 81, part; ed. 1843, 101, part. 



Conuropsis carolinensis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 203, part 

 (in synonymy); Ibis, 189G, 457, part (references). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 373, part; Check List, 3rd ed., 

 1910, 179, part.— Wright (A. H.), Auk, xxix, 1912, 343-363, part (early 

 records). 



[Conuropsis] carolinensis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, IC, part. 



Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iv, 1913, 

 94, part (Louisiana specimens). 



Psittacus septentrionalis Maximilian, Reise Nord-Amerika, i, 1839, 175 (New 

 Harmony, Indiana; substitute name for P. carolinensis Linnasus). 



Conuropsis carolinensis interior^'' Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iv, Nov. 20, 

 1913, 94 (Bald Island, Nebraska; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Genus ARATINGA Spix. 



Aratinga Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 29. (Type, as fixed by Gray, 1855, Psittacus 



luteus Boddaert.) 

 Arara (not of Spix, 1824) Lesson, Man. d'Orn., ii. 1828, 143. (Type, Psittacus 



guianensis Gmelin^P. leucophthalmus Miiller.) 

 Pdttacara Vigors, Zool. Journ., ii, 1825, 388. (Type, Psittacus guianetisis Gmelin 



^P. leucophthalmus Miiller. 

 Evopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151. (Type, Sittace euops 



Wagler.) 

 (?) Maracana Des MuRS,in Chenu'Enc.d'Hist. Nat., Ois., i, 1851?, 163; in Cas- 



telnau's Exp. Am. Sud., Zool. i, Ois., 1855, 13, pi. 2. (New name for Convj- 



rus Kulil?) 



Medium-sized to rather small long-tailed Psittacidse (length about 

 250-300 mm.) with seventh primary attenuated at tip, cere partly- 

 naked, tail shorter than wing, tip of mandible slightly produced and 

 strongly rounded transversely with terminal edge strongly concave 

 above, and under surface of remiges and rectrices yellowish or yel- 

 lowish olive. 



Bill relatively short and very deep (depth at base much greater 

 than length of culmen), the maxilla but little compressed toward 

 culmen, the mandible very broad and not at all flattened laterally; 



o Mr. Bangs was misled as to the relationship of the Louisiana specimens by having 

 an insufficient series of Mississippi Valley birds, several examples of which were 

 abnormal in the development of the blue cast to the plumage; also, by a specimen 

 said to be from Cape Florida (but unquestionably not from there) wliich agrees with 

 the single Louisiana adult with which it was compared. The alleged Cape Florida 

 specimen was supposed to have been collected there by G. Wiirdemann; but the 

 "make" of Wiirdemann's skins is so unique that they are very easily recognizable, 

 and the specimen in question certainly was not put up by him. It represents the 

 greener phase (or extreme) of the interior bird, and without doubt came from some 

 locality in the interior of the country. 



