206 PSITTACID^. 



Arara patagonica, part., Less. Tr. cTOrn. p. 187 (1831) ; Selby, Nat. 

 Libr., Parrots, p. 79 (partim) (1836). 



Sittace patagonica, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 659 (1832). 



Conurus patachonicus, Gould fyDario. Voy. of 'Beagle,' Birds, p. 113 

 (Bahia Blanca) (1841). 



Conurus cyauolyseos, part., G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 413, n. 5 (1845) ; 

 Hartl. {nee Molina) Lid. Azara Apunt. p. 17 (1847) ; Burm. Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1858, p. 157. 



Cyanolyseus patagonus, part., Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 150, 

 u. 28; id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 29 (partim). 



Conurus patagonicus, Burm. Journ. f. Orn. I860, p. 243; Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1808, p. 530 ; Leyb. Exc. Pamp. Argent. (1873) ; Mart. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1875, p. 442. 



Conurus patagonns, Burm. Beise La-Plata Staat. i. p. 130, ii. p. 441 

 (1861); Ibisch, Papag. ii. p. 444 (partim) (1867); Gieb. Thes. 

 Orn. i. p. 765 (partim) (1872) ; Selat. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 549 (Bio 

 Negro) ; Sclat. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. Ill, n. 1 (par- 

 tim) (1873) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 761 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, 



Gibs. 

 Psitt. 

 n lute, l~. /j. a. 1002, p. ozu ; sxcumc. > vyeiuiu*. Nachtr. 

 83 (1883); Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. -'Ml (1883); Bar- 

 rows, Auk, 1884, p. 28 ; Sclat. # Hud*. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 41 

 (1889). 



Conurus patachonicus, Hudson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 7, 1872, p. 607. 



Adult male. Head, neck, back, and scapulars dark olive-brown ; 

 lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and flanks yellow, with a 

 slight olive tinge, especially on the upper tail-coverts ; throat and 

 breast greyish brown ; an irregular whitish band, generally inter- 

 rupted in the middle, across the upper part of the hreast ; middle 

 of the abdomen and thighs orange-red; under tail-coverts olive- 

 yellow ; upper and under wing-coverts olive ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blue, tipped with black, the secondaries bluish 

 green; inner web of the quills partly blackish ; quills underneath 

 and greater under wing-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers above olive- 

 green, with a bluish tinge along the middle of the central ones ; 

 inner webs and under surface of the tail-feathers brown : bill horn- 

 black ; feet pale reddish; "iris white" (Bridges). Total length 

 17-5 inches, wing 9'2, tail 9-5, bill 1-2, tarsus 0'75. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hub. La Plata and Patagonia. 



a. Ad. sk. Uruguay. Alan Peel, Esq. [CI. 



b. cS ad. sk. Eio Negro, April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c d 2 ad sk. Mendoza, Feb. ( Weishavpt). Salvin-Godman & 



' ' Sclater Colls. 



e,f. (5 5 ad. sk. Cosqniu, Cordova, Arg. Pie- E. W. White [C.]. 



public, June. 

 g. £ ad. sk. Catamarca, Sept. Purchased. 



h d ad. sk. [var.l. Pampas Argentiiias (Ley- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



bold), 

 i Ad. sk. Campana, July. H. Dumford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 j P ad. sk. Churat, Patagonia, Nov. II. Dumford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



