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ARATINGA EUOPS (Wagler). 



CUBAN PAROQUET. 



Much smaller than other species of the genus (wing not more than 

 140 mm.); adults with smaller under wing-coverts red and (usually, 

 at least) with scattered red feathers on abdomen or flanks, sometimes 

 on head and neck also. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Above light yellowish paiTot green, the pri- 

 maries and primary coverts slightly darker and decidedly more 

 bluish green, the former margined terminally with blackish or dusky, 

 especially on inner webs; shafts of primaries, rectrices, etc., black; 

 sides of head slightly brighter green; under parts light apple green, 

 the abdomen or abdomen and flanks, sometimes head and neck also, 

 with a few scattered red fathers;'' smaller under wing-coverts and 

 edge of wing vermilion red, the latter slightly intermixed with yellow; 

 under primary coverts hght grayish olive, with a yellowish cast, the 

 under surface of remiges and rectrices light yellowish olive changing 

 to deep olive-yellowish; bill pale brownish or dull brownish buffy; 

 bare orbital space pale brownish (whitish in life ?) ; legs and feet light 

 brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but with red on under wing-coverts 

 more restricted, the edge of the wing (more or less broadly) yellowish 

 green, and without any red feathers on head, neck, or under parts. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 237-264 (253); wing, 139-145 (142.4); 

 tail, 126-139.5 (133.7); culmen, 19-20 (19.9); tarsus, 14-15 (14.5); 

 outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.9).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 220-265 (247); wing, 134.5-143.5 

 (139.9); tail, 118-141.5 (127.3); culmen, 17.5-19.5 (18.6); tarsus, 

 13.5-15 (14.2); outer anterior toe, 17.5-19 (18.6).^ 



Island of Cuba (Trinidad; Guama; Remedios; Camaguey; San 

 Juan; San Pablo; Yateras); formerly also Isle of Pines, where now 

 extirpated. 



[Psittacus rufirostris.] Var. /?. Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 96. 



Psittaais guianensis (not of Scopoli nor of Gmelin) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra'a 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 1G2.— Lembeye, Aves de La Isla de Cuba, 1850, 

 132.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 

 ■ Conurus guyanensis Cabanis, Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1856, 106 (Cuba). 



[Conurus] guyanensis Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 336 (Cuba). 



S[ittace\ euops Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 638, 728 ("America")- 



Sittace euops Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, pL 24, fig. 2. 



Psittacus euops Kuster, Orn. Atlas, Papag., 1840, 95, pL 74. 



C[onurus] euops Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 414. — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 

 107, in text (comparison with C. gundlachi). 



o- In some specimens red feathers are interspersed on other parts, especially on the 

 head and neck. 

 ^Ten specimens. 



