228 psittactd-e. 



brown, and a second one narrow and blackish at the tip ; a brown- 

 red patch in the middle of the abdomen, sometimes scarcely visible, 

 and always more or less hidden by the green edges of the feathers ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blue ; first primary black, the 

 remainder deep blue, with a narrow brighter edge on the outer 

 webs ; secondaries blue, with the outer webs green ; tertials green ; 

 bend of the wing and smaller under wing-coverts red, the greater 

 ones blackish, sometimes some of them reddish ; quills underneath 

 blackish with a slight olive tinge ; tail above brown-red, with an 

 olive tinge at the base, below dark reddish brown, but redder at the 

 base of the inner web of the feathers : bill horn-brown ; feet dusky. 

 Total length 9-5 inches, wing 5, tail 4 - 6, bill 0-65, tarsus 0-42. 



Young. The bend of the wing green with no red feathers. 



Hab. Lower Amazons. 



16. Pyrrhura rhodogaster. 



Conurus rhodogaster, Natt. MS.; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 298, pi. xxiv. ; 



Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 27 (1864) ; Finsch, Papag. i. 



p. 549 (1867); Pelz. Om. Bras. pp. 260, 446, liii (1871); Gieb. 



Thes. Om. i. p. 766 (1872); Sclat. $■ Sal v. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 112, n. 38 (1873); SchJeg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 7 



(1874) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. d. naturh. Ho f mus. iii. p. 39 (1888). 

 Pyrrhura rhodogaster, G. P. Gr. Hand-listen, p. 149, n. 8140 (1870). 

 Sittace rhodogaster, Natt. Cat. MS., fide Pelz. I. c. 

 Pyrrhura rhodogastra, Rchmo. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 310 ( Consp. 



Psitt. p. 180) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 94 (1883). 



Adult. Pileum, nape, sides of the neck, throat, and upper breast 

 brown, each feather with lighter edges ; forehead and lower part of 

 the checks bluish ; upper part of the cheeks olive-green ; a collar on 

 the lower part of the nape blue ; interscapular region, lower back, 

 middle of the rump, and central upper tail-coverts green ; shorter 

 scapulars green, the longer ones greenish blue ; lateral upper tail- 

 coverts dull blue ; lower breast and abdomen crimson ; flanks, vent, 

 and under tail-coverts dull blue : smaller upper wing-coverts green 

 like the back, greater ones dull blue, more or less edged with 

 greenish : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blue, deeper on 

 the primaries, which are black at the tip ; first primary entirely 

 black ; secondaries tinged with green on the outer webs ; smaller 

 under wing-coverts crimson, the greater ones and the quills under- 

 neath black ; tail above dark red-brown, tinged with green at the 

 base of the central feathers, and with blue at the base of the outer 

 ones ; tail underneath black : bill and feet blackish. Total length 

 9 inches, wing 5-1, tail 4-1, bill 07, tarsus 0*4. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hab. Interior of Brazil near Borba. 



a. Ad. sk. Borba (Natterer). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



