170 PSTTTACIDS. 



6. CONURUS. 



Type. 

 Conurus, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 4 (1820) ; Sw. 



Class. B. ii. p. 300 (1837) C. leucophthalnius. 



Aratinga, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 29 (1824) 



(= Conurus). 

 Psittacara, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 388 (1825) . C. leucophthalmus. 

 Arara, Less, (nee Spix) Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 143 



(1828) ; C. leucophthalmus. 



Psittacus, subgen. Guarouba, Less. Tr. cPOrn. 



p. 210 (1831) C. guarouba. 



Maracana, Des Murs *, in Cham, Enc. d'Hist. 



Nat., Ois. i. p. 1G3 (1851 ?) ; id. in Casteln. 



Exp. Am. Sud, Zool. i. Ois. p. 13, pi. ii ^1855) 



( = Conurus). 

 Eupsittula, Bp. Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. Paris, 



xxxvii. p. 807 (1853) C. canicularis. 



Nandayus, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 150 C. nenday. 



Heliopsitta, Bp. ibid C. guarouba. 



Evopsitta, Bp. I. c. p. 151 C. euops. 



Maracara, Des Murs (1851), fide G. R. Gr. 



List Gen. # Subgen. B. p. 87 (1855). 

 Aratinga, Bp. Naumannia, 1856 (nee 1854), 



Consp. Psitt. gen. 8 C. guarouba. 



Eupsittaca, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 335 



(=Eupsittula). 



Range. From Mexico, through Central America and West Indies 

 to South America as far as Bolivia and Paraguay. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail green, with the inner webs of the rectrices 



dull red. 

 a'. Pileum and sides of the head dull blue; 



upper mandible whitish, under mandible 



blackish acuticaudatus, p. 172. 



b'. Only the anterior part of the pileum blue ; 



sides of the head green ; both mandibles 



whitish h&morrhous, p. 173. 



b. Tail entirely yellow, like the rest of the 



plumage, except the quills, which are green; 



bill thick, under mandible very broad guarouba, p. 174. 



c. Tail underneath blackish or very dark olive ; 



wings with the primary-coverts and quills 



more or less blue. 



c. Head entirely or partly yellow-orange; 



base of tail above distinctly olive, the 



tip blue. 



a". Upper and under parts in the adult bird 



yellow, more or less tinged with orange ; 



* Des Murs attributes the genus Maracana to Azara ( Voy. dans l'Amer. 

 trier. 1809) (!). I do not know whether the date, 1851, given also by Gray, is 

 correct ; the first three volumes of the Birds in Chenu's ' Encyclopeuie ' were 

 reviewed by Hartlaub in 1854, as published in 1853. 



