194 TSITTAClDiE. 



23. Conurus cactorum. 



Psittacus cactorum, Neuw. in Mus. Princ. Ma.ximil. ; Kuhl, Consp. 



Psitt. p. 82 (] 820) ; Neuw. Reis. Bras. ii. pp. 108, 232, 314 (1821) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 100 (1826) ; Less. Man. cTOrn. ii. p. 140 



(1828) ; Nemo. Beitr. iv. p. 103 (1832) ; Halm, Orn. Ail., Papag. 



p. 50, t. 35 (pess.) (1835). 

 Aratinga flaviventer, SpLv,Av. Bras. p. 33, t. xviii. figs. 1, 2 (1824) ; 



Ste])h. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 137 (1826) ; Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. t. 23. 

 Aratinga caixana, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 34, t. xix. f. 1 (var.) (1824) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 138 (1826) ; Brehm, I. c. 1. 18. f. 1. 

 Sittace cactorum, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 651 (partim) (1832). 

 Psittacus lepidus, Halm (nee 111.), Orn. A tl, Papag. t. 70 (not the text) 



(1840). 

 Conurus reruginosus, part., G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 413, n. 12 (1845) ; 



? Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 150, n. 39 (partim) ; Burm. 



{nee Linn.) Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 170 (1856). 

 Conurus cactorum, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 61 ; Bp. 



Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 60; Souance, Leon. Perr. pi. x. 



(1857) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 38 (1850) ; Sclat. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 348, n. 2078 (1862) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 21 



(1864) ; Finsch, Papag. i. p. 517 (1867) ; G. R. Gr. Lland-list, 



ii. p. 148, n. 8116 (1870); Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 258 (note), 



p. 446 (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 7.'1 (1872) ; Sclat. $ Sale. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, n. 24 (1873) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 



Psittaci, Revue, p. 5 (1874) ; Cab. Journ, f. Orn. 1870, p. 222 ; 



Llchior. Vor/elbild. t. xvii. 1'. 3 (1*78- M) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, 



p. 261 (Consp. Psitf. p. 169) ; Forb. Ibis, 1881, p. 352 ; Sclat. List 



Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 344 (1883) ; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



ii. p. 263 (1880). 



Adult male. Upper parts green, pileuni pale brown, lighter on the 

 edges of the feathers and blending on the nape in the green colour of 

 the back ; lores, cheeks, throat, sides of the neck, and upper breast 

 pale brown ; a yellow line below the eyes, edging the upper ear-coverts ; 

 ear-coverts green : lower breast and abdomen dull orange ; flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts yellowish green ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts green with a slight bluish tinge, especially on the 

 inner webs ; primaries bluish green, greener towards the bases of 

 the outer webs ; secondaries greenish blue ; all the quills tipped 

 with blackish ; carpal edge yellowish in the middle ; smaller 

 under wing-coverts yellow-green, the greater ones and quills below 

 blackish grey ; tail above green, with the four central feathers blue 

 towards the tips, below golden olive with the outer webs dusky : 

 upper mandible whitish, under mandible horn-brown ; feet pale 

 horn-brown ; iris orange. Total length about 10 - 2 inches, wing 5*7, 

 tail 5-1, bill 0-75, tarsus 0-45. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the pileum green, with 

 no browu tinge ; the throat and upper breast olive ; the lower breast 

 and abdomen olive, with an orange tinge towards the tip of the 

 feathers. 



Hab. South-eastern Brazil. 



Specimens b and c differ from a in being a little smaller, of 



