214 PSITTACID^J. 



t. xxii. f. 1 (1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 287 (Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 175). 

 Microsittace cruentata, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1874, p. 228. 



Adult. Green ; pileum and nape brown-black, tbe feathers, espe- 

 cially on the nape, narrowly edged with ochreous yellow ; frontal 

 edge, lores, a ring round the eyes, and ear-coverts brown-red ; on 

 the sides of the neck a yellow-orange patch ; cheeks and chin green ; 

 throat and a narrow collar round the lower part of the hind neck 

 blue ; a broad dark red patch on the lower back and rump, a brighter 

 one on the middle of the abdomen ; bend of the wing crimson ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts green, tinged with blue, especially 

 on the inner webs ; outermost primaries blue, edged with green on 

 the outer webs, olive on the inner webs ; innermost primaries and 

 secondaries green ; quills underneath grey, their inner webs towards 

 the base and greater under wing-coverts olive ; tail above olive, the 

 lateral tail-feathers tinged with brown-red on their inner webs ; 

 tail underneath brown coppery red, the tips of the feathers olive : 

 bill horn-brown ; feet dusky ; iris yellow-orange. Total length 

 about 11-5 inches, wing 6-2, tail 5-5, bill 0*7, tarsus 0-58. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Duller ; less red colour on the bend of the wing. 



Hah. South-eastern Brazil, from Bahia to Rio Janeiro. 



The last two specimens mentioned below have the tail-feathers 

 more pointed and with no red tingo above towards the tips and 

 on the inner webs. 



terer 



2. Pyrrhura vittata. 



La Perruche Ara a bandeau rouge, Levaill. Pen: pi. 17 (1801). 



? Ckiripepd, Azara, Apunt. n. 281 (1803). 



Psittacus vittatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 404 (1811) ; Kuhl, 



Consp. Psitt. p. 21 (1820); Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 726 (1831); 



Halm, Orn. Atl, Papag. p. 37, t. 21 (pess.) (1834). 

 Psittacus frontalis, Vieill. A. D. xxv. p. 361 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. 



iii. p. 1396 (1823). 

 ? Psittacus chiripepe, Vieill. N. D xxv. p. 361 (1817). 

 Psittacus undulatus, Illig. in Mus. Berol., fide Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. 



p. 21 (1820); Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 7 (1823) ; id. Komencl. Av. 



p. 73(1854). 

 Bauded Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 115 (1822). 

 Aratinga fasciatus, Spiv, Av. Bras. i. p. 35, t. xxi. figs. 1, 2 (1824) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 138 Q826) ; Brehm, Mon, d. Papag. 



t, 25. figs. 1,2. 



