12. PYRRnUKA. 



221 



E. Bartlett, Esq. [C.]. 



I, m. Jjuv.sk. Chamicuros, Peruvian Ama 



zons, July. 

 n. $ juv. sk. Chamicuros, Peruvian Ama- Sclater Coll. 



zons (E. Bartlett). 

 o. Juv. sk. Peru. Tweeddale Coll 



7. Pyrrhura egregia. 



Conurus egregius, Sclut. Ibis, 1881, p. 130, pi. iv. ; Salv. <§• Godm. 



Ibis, 1882, p. 83; Rchnw. $ Sclial. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, p. 118; 



Salv. Ibis, 1880, pp. 08, 509. 

 Pyrrhura egregia, Rchnw. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 287 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 175; ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 85 (1883). 



Adult male. Dark green, pileum more or less brown ; cheeks 

 green, ear-coverts and an obsolete spot on the throat reddish brown ; 

 throat, sides of the neck, and breast green, each feather with two 

 cross bands at the tip, one light brown, and a second blackish on 

 the very edge ; lower breast and abdomen green, the feathers with 

 narrow dusky edges ; on the middle of the abdomen a very dark 

 brown-red patch ; edge and bend of the wings and smaller under 

 wing-coverts orange-red ; bastard- wing yellow, tinged more or less 

 with red ; primary-coverts and primaries blue ; secondaries green ; 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow ; quills underneath black ; tail 

 above brown-black, with some green colour at the base, below 

 brown, nearly black : bill horn-white ; feet dusky. Total length 

 10 inches, wing 5, tail 4-3, bill 0-68, tarsus - 45. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having only very little red on 

 the bend of the wing and on the smaller under wing-coverts, which 

 are mostly green ; greater under wing-coverts blackish, with an 

 olive tinge ; bastard- wing blue ; cross bands on the throat less 

 distinct. 



Hub. British Guiana. 



In some specimens some of the primary-coverts also turn 

 yellow. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. <5 ad- sk. 



d,e. $ ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 f-i. $ $ imm. sk. 



Demerara. 



Demerara. 



Roraima, January (II. 



Whitely). 

 Roraima, August and 

 December ( //. Whitely). 

 Merume Mts., June (H. 



Whitely). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Pyrrhura calliptera. 



Conurus callipterus, Mima, S[ Souance", Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 

 p. 72 ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool, 1854, p. 147 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1855, p. 102; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mvs. p. 42 (1859) ; Sclat. 



