19G PSITTACIBJ3. 



Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 187 (part.) (1862) ; Sclat. $ Salv. 

 P. Z. £.'1867, p. 588; Finsch, Papag. i. p. 506 (part.) (1867), 

 ii. p. 944 (1868) ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 585 (Trinidad) ; ? Sousa, 

 Mus. Nac. Lisbon, Psittaci, p. 8 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 147, n. 8112 (1870) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 493, 494 ; Pelz. 

 Orn. Bras. pp. 258, 446, lii (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 766 

 (part.) (1872) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, n. 22 

 (Guiana) (1873) ; Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1879, p. 222 (Guiana and 

 Venezuela) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 68. 



Conurus chrysogenys, Mass. et Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 

 p. 72 (Rio Negro, Colombia) ; Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 348, n. 2076 

 (1862) ; Sehleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 21 (1864) ; Sclat. § Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1867, p. 588 ; Rchnw. Voyelbild. t. xvii. f. 4 (1878-83). _ 



Conurus cayennensis, Aliq.,fide Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. 

 in svn. n. 66. 



Sittace chrysogenys, Natt. MS., fide Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 258 (1871). 



Adult male. Green, crown tinged with blue ; circle round the 

 eyes, broader below, orange-yellow ; front, anterior part of the lores, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, and throat drab or browu, more or less fulvous ; 

 breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and smaller under wing-coverts 

 yellowish green ; an orange patch on the middle of the abdomen ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts green, bluish towards the tips ; 

 quills blue, with the outer webs green towards the base; greater 

 under wing-coverts and quills underneath blackish ; tail above 

 green, with the tip of the central feathers bluish, below golden 

 olive: bill horn-brown ; feet brown. Total length 9 - 7 inches, wing 

 5-5, tail 4-3, bill 0-28, tarsus 0-46. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Young. Similar to the adult, only duller and with the orbital 

 yellow circle not well defined. 



Jfab. Guiana, Venezuela, and Rio Negro. 



Two specimens from Mr. Sclater's collection, said to be one from 

 Rio Negro (Parzudahi) and the other from Cayenne (Stevens), have 

 the orange-yellow orbital ring irregularly extended over the cheeks 

 and ear-coverts, and the forehead also tinged with yellow, ap- 

 proaching to a certain extent C. pertina.v from St. Thomas. 



a-c. Ad. st. British Guiana (Schomburt/k). R. Geograph. Soc. 



[P.]. 

 d. Ad. st. British Guiana. R. Schomburgk [C.]. 



e-y. <3 5 ad.sk. Roraima, British Guiana, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



and November (H. Whitely). 

 h. Ad. sk. Roraima, British Guiana, Sclater Coll. 



June {H. Whitely). 

 i-l. cJ 5 ad. sk. Quonga, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



October and November (H. 



Whitely). 

 m. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n. Ad. sk. [var.]. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Cimaga, Magdalena Valley Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Wyatt). 

 p, q. Ad. sk. San Esteban, Venezuela, Sclater Coll. 



March (Goeriny). 

 r. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Purchased. 



