210 psittacibj;. 



Conurus leptorhynchus, Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 22 (1864) ; 

 id. op. cit., Revue, p. 6 (1874). 



Adult male. Dull green, a little brighter on the head, each feather 

 slightly edged with dusky, the feathers of the pileum with broader 

 dusky edges ; forehead, lores, and a small ring round the naked 

 skin surrounding the eyes dull crimson ; an obsolete dull red patch 

 on the middle of the abdomen ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 bluish green ; primaries green, tinged with bluish towards the tips, 

 first primary blackish, bluish towards the tip of the inner web ; 

 greater under wing-coverts and primaries underneath greyish black, 

 tinged with greenish on the inner webs ; tail dull red, with the tip 

 of the feathers greenish : bill and feet lead-colour ; iris orange. 

 Total length 15 inches, wing 8-5, tail 6-8, bill 1-35, tarsus 0-68. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hab. Chili. 



The Admiralty [P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Lord Byron [P.]. 



11. MICROSITTACE. 



Type. 

 Microsittace, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 150 ; 



id. Naumannia, 1856, C'o7isp. Psitt. gen. 13 M. ferrugineus. 



Dasyrrhinus, Rchnb. MS. in Mm. Dresd., teste Finsch, 



Papag. i. pp. 525-527 (1867) M. ferrugineus. 



Ranqe. From Chili to the Straits of Magellan. 



1. Microsittace ferrugineus. 



Perruche des terres Magellaniques, DAubent. PI. Enl. 85. 

 Psittacus ferrugineus, Mull. S. N. Suppl. p. 75, Qg (1776) ; Cass. Pr. 



Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 239. 

 Perriche emeraude, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 262 (1779). 

 Emerald Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 230 (1781) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 151 



(1822). 

 Psittacus smaragdinus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 322, n. 68 (1788) ; Lath. 



Lnd. Orn. i. p. 94, n. 36 (1790) ; Shato, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 406 



(1811); Bechst. Furze Feb. p. 72 (1811-12) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. 



p. 364 (1817) ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 93 (1820) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 



lii. p. 1398 (1823) ; Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 740 (1832). 

 La Perruche e"meraude, Levaill. Pen: pi. 21 (1801). 

 Sittace smaragdina, Hartl. Sgst. Verz. Ges. Mm. p. 86 (1844). 

 Conurus smaragdinus, G. R. Or. Gen. B. ii. p. 414, n. 42 (1845) ; id. 



List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 47 (1859) ; Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, 



p. 22 (1864); Finsch, Papag. i. p. 525(1867); Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



i. p. 767 (1872) ; Sclat. &■ Salo. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, n. 27 



(1873); iid. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 434; Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, 



