176 PSITTACTD.E. 



Psittacus guarouba, Halm, T'iig. aus As. etc. Lief. xiii. t. 3 (1822) ; 



id. Orn. All, Papag. p. 27, t. 13 (1834). 

 Aratinga luteus sive guarouba. Spue, Ac. Bras. i. p. 30, t. xiv. a 



(1824); Brehm, Man. d. Papag. t. 17 (1852). 

 Aratinga solstitialis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 135, n. 4 (1826). 

 Aratinga guarouba, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 135, n. 5 (1826). 

 Conurus solsticialis, part., Less. Tr. cFOrn. p. 212 (183l). 

 Sittace solstitialis, Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 655 (1832). 

 Psittacaria solstitialis, Schomb. Reis. Guian. u. Orinoko, p. 377 



(1841). 

 Conurus solstitialis, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 413, n. 9 (1845) ; Cab. 



in Schomb. Brit. Guian. p. 728 (1848) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1854, p. 150, n. 33 ; Souance, Rev. ct Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 60 ; 



Bp. Naumannia, Consp. Psitt. n. 60 ; Burm. Si/st. Ueb. ii. p. 166 



(1856) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 36 '(1859) ; Sclat. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 347, n. 2073 (1862) ; Schleg. Mm. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 17 



(18641; Finsch, Papag. i. p. 491 (1867); Sotisa, Mm. Nac. 



Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 8 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 147, 



n. 8109 (1870); Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 257, 446, lii (1871) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. i. p. 767 (1872) ; Sclat. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 112, n. 15 (1873); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 4 



(1874) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. ii. f. 6 (1878-83); id.Journ. f. Orn. 



1881, p 278 (Consp. Psitt. p. 166) ; Sclat. List Vert. An.'Slh ed. 



p. 343 (1883) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 67 ; W. L. Sclat. Ibis, 1887, 



p. 317. 

 ? Conurus luteus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 185. 

 Conurus maculatus, Cass. Pr. Acad. Philad. 1864, p. 239 (in sgn. P. 



maculati)*. 



Adult male. Yellow, tinged -with orange-red on the forehead, 

 sides of head, lower breast, abdomen, lower back, and rump, and 

 sometimes also on the neck, throat, back, and breast, or all over the 

 yellow feathers ; under tail-coverts green, tinged with yellow ; 

 smaller upper wing-coverts and the whole of the under wing-coverts 

 yellow ; greater upper wing-coverts green, irregularly tipped with 

 yellow ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and secondaries dark blue, 

 edged with green on the outer edges ; primaries with the outer 

 web green towards the base, blue towards the tip ; tail olive-green 

 towards the base of the feathers, blue towards the tip, the outer 

 tail-feather of each side with the whole of the outer web blue ; 

 quills and tail-feathers below olive, dusky towards the tips : bill 

 dusky horn- colour ; feet flesh-brown. Total length about 12 inches, 

 wing 6-2, tail 5-5, bill 0-9, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Young. Head and neck yellow-orange, more or less green on the 

 pileum : forehead, lores, region round the eyes, and ear-coverts 



* The following synonyms also most probably belong to the present 

 species : — 



Psiltaca mexicana lutea, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 370 (1700). 



Psittacus merulinus. Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 30 (1769). 



Mexican Yellow Parrot, Lath. Sgn. i. p. 226 (1781). 



Psittacus mexicanus, Gm. S. N. i. p, 320 (1788). 



Psittacus luteus, var. /3, Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 93 (1790). 



Mexican Yellow Parrakeet, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 450 (1811). 



Brazilian Yellow Parrot, var. B, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 14G (1822). 



