BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBIC A. 161 



Conurus euops Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidae, 1859, 33, part. — Finsch, 

 Die Papag., i, 1867, 474.— Gundlach, Journ. fiirOrn., 1871, 271, 288, 291, 

 293; 1874, 164 (habits); Contr. Orn. Cuba, 1876, 126, 276; Orn. Cubana, ed. 

 1895, 152. — Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 275 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 

 1882, 163; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 79.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 455 (synon- 

 ymy; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 178; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 101, 

 128 (Cuba; Isle of Pines). — Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55. — Salvador!, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 185.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 

 298 (San Juan and San Pablo, s. Cuba; habits and notes; crit.). — Rothschild, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15. — Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 

 1905, 200 (Isle of Pines; extirpated!). 



[Conurus] euops Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 112. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 

 15. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 10. 



Evopsitta euops Souance, Icon. Perr., 1857, pi. 7, fig. 1 (not fig. 2), and text to 

 pi. 8, part. 



[Evopsitta] evops Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151; Naumannia, 1856 

 (Consp. Psitt., no. 24). 



Conurus evops Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 297. 



Conurus enops [typog. error] Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, 539. 



[Evopsitta] typu^ Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 21, in syn- 

 onymy). 



Genus EUPSITTULA Bonaparte. 



(?) Guarouba Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 210. (Type, Psittacus luteus Latham= 



P. guarouba Gmelin.) 

 Eupsittula Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, Ac. Sci. Paris, xxxvii, 1853, 807; Mag. de 



Zool., vi (2), 1854, 150. (Type, Psittacus petzii Leiblein=P. canicularis 



Linnaeus.) 

 (?) Heliopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 150. (Type, Psittacus 



guarouba Gmelin.) 

 Eupsittaca (emendation) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 335. 



Kather small, long-tailed Psittacidae (length about 230-300 mm.) 

 with cere mostly naked, fully exposing nostrils; tip of seventh 

 primary attenuated; coloration variable, but mostly green or (in 

 one species) orange and yellow, the under surface of remiges always 

 blackish or slaty. 



Bill moderate, decidedly deeper than long and very much deeper 

 than wide, the maxilla more or less compressed laterally toward 

 culmen; culmen longer than middle toe without claw, regularly and 

 strongly decurved from base, usually more or less flattened (some- 

 times broadly grooved between two distinct lateral ridges) ; maxillary 

 unguis rather thick, not acute, its width at base of the distinctly 

 corrugated palatal surface less than its length from same point; 

 maxillary tomium with a more or less prominent angular projection 

 or "tooth" immediately behind the very distinct postungual notch; 

 depth of mandible at base less than length of gonys, the latter broad 

 and more or less flattened (sometimes with one or two mdistinct 

 median grooves or ridges), the chisel-hke tip of mandible more or 



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