226 PSITTACID.E. 



ear-coverts greyish brown ; throat, sides of the neck, and upper 

 breast light brown, sometimes with a greenish tinge, each feather 

 with two cross bands — one broader, pale greyish buif, and a second 

 one very narrow, blackish brown at the edge ; a brown-red patch 

 on the middle of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts green, in some 

 specimens tinged with bluish ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 primaries blue, the outer secondaries tinged with blue along the 

 middle, green on the outer webs ; greater under wing-coverts and 

 quills underneath blackish, slightly tinged with olive ; tail brown- 

 red, the base of the four central feathers green, all tipped with 

 bluish in some specimens ; tail underneath coppery red : bill horn- 

 brown ; feet dusky. Total length 10-5 inches, wing 5-2, tail o^, 

 bill 0-78 to 0-70, tarsus 0-45. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hob. Matto Grosso, Bolivia, and Northern Argentina. 



Plato xiv. in the ' Argentine Ornithology ' is quite wrong as 

 regards the red colour of the bill. 



a. Ad. sk. Matto Grosso, Brazil, July Sclater Coll. 



(Natterer). 



b. 2 ad. sk. Bolivia. Massena Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



c. Ad. st. Bolivia. Massena Coll. 



d. Ad. st. Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Bolivia (Bridges). Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Piedra Blanca, Bolivia, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. H. Smith), 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(C Buckley), 

 k. Ad. sk. Salta, Argentine Pepublic Sclater Coll. 



(White). 



14. Pyrrhura devillei. 



Conurus devillei, Mans, et Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 73 ; 



G. R. Or. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 40 (1859) ; Finsch, Papaq. i. 



p. 532 (1867) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 259 (note) (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. i. p. 762 (1872) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, 



n. 30 (1873). 

 Microsittace devillii, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, pp. 147, 150, 



n. 52 ; Souanci, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 63. 

 Pyrrhura devillii, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, C'otisp. Psitt. n. 35; Souanci, 

 'Icon. Pen: pi. xvi. (1857) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 149, n. 8137 



(1870) ; Rchnw. Jonrn.f. Orn. 1881, p. 286 (Consp. Psitt. p. 174) ; 



id. Vogelbild. Nachtr., in the text of n. 85 (1883). 



Adult (type). Green ; a narrow frontal band reddish brown ; 

 pileum brown, with the feathers edged with green ; cheeks green ; 

 ear-coverts greyish brown ; breast olive-brown, each feather edged 

 with two narrow cross bands, one light and the other dusky or 

 blackish ; on the middle of the abdomen a brown-red patch ; bend 

 of the wing, carpal edge, and smaller under wing-covert crimson ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries blue, edged with black 



