220 psittacid^:. 



Rchnic. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 340 (Consp. Psitt. p. 180) ; id. 



Vogelbild. Nachtr. 95 (1883). 

 Conurus phaiogenys, Natt. MS., Jide Finsch, Papag. p. 542 



(1867). 

 Conurus cyanopterus, Sclat. fy Sale, {nee Bodd.) P. Z. S. 1867, p. 753 ; 



Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 945 (1868). 

 Sittace phaiogenys, Natt. Cat. MS., Jide Pels. Orn. Bras. p. 259 



(1871). 



Adult (type of C. roseifrons). Green ; forehead, crown, lores, 

 region round the eyes, and cheeks red ; occiput and nape brown ; a 

 bluish collar on the lower part of the hind neck ; ear-coverts buff; 

 lower back, rump, central upper tail-coverts, and a large patch on 

 the middle of the abdomen brown-red ; throat and upper breast 

 with a scaled appearance, the feathers of the throat being brown 

 with buff edges, and those of the upper breast green with buff-olive 

 edges and black shafts ; bend of the wings and thighs with some 

 red feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries blue, 

 secondaries green ; all the quills with black edges at the tip ; under 

 wing-coverts green, the greater ones and quills below with a slight 

 olive tinge on the inner webs ; tail above coppery brown-red, with 

 the base of the feathers green, below darker, with the inner webs 

 redder : bill horn-brown ; feet dusky. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 wing 4-9, tail 4-2, hill 0-6, tarsus 0-45. 



Young. Crown and nape dark brown ; forehead dull blue ; cheeks 

 reddish brown, with a slight bluish tinge on the lower part ; hend 

 of the wings green, with no red feathers. 



Birds in transitional stage show more or less red feathers on the 

 forehead. 



Hab. Upper Amazons, near the Peruvian Andes. 



Graf von Berlepsch has drawn attention to the probability of 

 C. luciani being the young of C. roseifrons, and I think that he is 

 quite right in his supposition. 



The series of specimens in the British Museum, four of them 

 collected by Herr Garlepp at Tarapoto and Shanusi near Yuri- 

 maguas, show a gradual transition from the types of C. roseifrons, 

 with the front part of the head red, to the specimens generally 

 called O. luciani. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Upper Amazons. H. W. Bates, Esq. [C] 



(Types of C. roseifrons, Gray.) 



d. 2imm.sk. Tarapoto, Peru, April {Gar- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lepp). 



e. c? imm. sk. Tarapoto, Peru, April {Gar- Sclater Coll. 



lepp). 



f. cjjuv.sk. Yurimaguas, Peru, Novem- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ber {Garlepp). 

 g,h. (J $ juv. sk. Yurimaguas, Peru, October Sclater Coll. 



{Garlepp). 

 i. Juv. st. E. Amazon. Massena Coll. 



k. c? juv. sk. Chyavetas, E. Peru, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(E. Bartlett). 



