216 PSITTACIDJ2. 



3. Pyrrhura leucotis. 



Psittacus leucotis, Lickt. in Mus. Berol. ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 21 



(1820) ; Neuwied, Beitr. iv. p. 188 (1832). 

 Aratinga ninus, Spiv. Av. Bras. i. p. 34, t. xix. f. 2 (1824) ; -S?e/;>£. 



Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 138 (1826) ; Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. 1. 18 (1842). 

 Psittacara leucotis, Tiq. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 389 (1825) ; Steph. Gen. 



Zool xiv. p. 116 (1826). 

 Sittace leucotis, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 64 (1832); Hart I. Syst. Verz. 



Ges. Mus. p. 86 (1844). 

 Psittacara ninus, Bourj. Pen: pi. 28 (1837-38). 

 Conurus leucotis, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 414, n. 24 (syn. emend.) 



(1845) ; Burnt. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 177 (1856) ; G. P. Gr. List Psitt. 



Brit. Mus. p. 41 (1859); Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 349, n. 2085 



(1862) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Patted, p. 24 (1864) ; Finsch, 



Papag. i. p. 535 (1867) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 259, 446, Hi (1871); 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 764 (1872) ; Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, 



p. 75; Sclat. $ Salr. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, n. 33 (1873); 



Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 6 (1874); Salv. Cat. B. 



StricM. Coll. p. 466 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 345 



(1883); Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. d. naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 38 (1888). 

 Microsittace leucotis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 150, n. 48 ; 



Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 62 ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 9 (1869). 

 Pyrrhura leucotis, Bp. Naumannia. 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 39; G.R. 



Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 149, n. 8129 (1870) ; Rchnw. Vogelhild. 



t. xxviii. f. 8 (1878-83); id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 338 [Consp. 



Psitt. p. 178). 



Adult. Green ; crown and nape brown-black ; a collar on the 

 lower part of the hind neck blue ; a narrow frontal edge, lores, 

 periocular region, and cheeks chestnut : ear-coverts dirt)' white ; 

 throat dull bluish ; upper breast green, each feather with two bands 

 at the tip, one whitish grey and the other blackish on the edge ; a 

 dark red patch from the lower back to the upper tail-coverts, and 

 another of the same colour on the middle of the abdomen ; bend of 

 the wing red ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts greenish blue ; 

 primaries blue on the outer webs ; smaller under wing-coverts green, 

 the greater ones and the quills below blackish, with an olive tinge ; 

 tail above brown-red, with the base of both webs of the two central 

 tail-feathers and of the outer web of the lateral ones green ; tail 

 below coppery brown-red : bill horn-brown ; feet dusky. Total 

 length S-'3 inches, wing 4 - 4, tail 4 - 3, bill 0*58, tarsus 0-4. 



Bab. Eastern Brazil. 



