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17. Pyrrhura haematotis. 



Pyrrhura haematotis, SouancS, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1*57, p. 97; id. 



Icon. Pert. pi. xviii. (1857) ; Bp. Compt. Bend. xliv. p. 538 (1857) ; 



G. B. Or. Hand-list. ii. p. 140, n. Sl:j6 ( |S?0) : 7?r/i hh>. ,/<,«/•». f. 



Ora. 1881, p. .339 (Conap. Psitt.-p. 179) : <</. VogeJhild. Nachtr.92 



(1883). 

 Conurus hffimatotis, G. P. Gr. List Pxitt. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1859) ; 



Finach, Popog. i. p. 551 (1867) ; Gieb. Then. Om. i. p. 763 (1872) ; 



Select. Sf Sale. Nomencl. Ac. Neotrop. p. 112, n.39 (1873). 



Adult. Green ; forehead and crown as far as the eyes brown, the 

 feathers edged with bluish ; occiput olive-green ; cheeks green ; 

 ear-coverts brown-red ; the feathers on the sides of the neck have 

 brown-greyish edges: throat and upper breast green with a slight 

 olive tinge, each feather with narrow dusky edges, scarcely per- 

 ceptible ; a brown-red patch on the middle of the abdomen, nearly 

 hidden by the green edges of the feathers ; under tail-coverts bluish 

 or bluish green ; carpal edge bluish ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and primaries blue, these edged at the tip with black ; first 

 primary black ; smaller under wing-coverts green, the greater ones 

 and the quills below blackish, with a slight olive tinge; tail brown- 

 red, scarcely tinged with green at the base, the tips of the feathers 

 olive- greeu ; tail below coppery red : bill horn-brown, with the tip 

 whitish ; feet dusky. Total length about 9 to 10 inches, wing 5 - l 

 to 4-9, tail 4-7 to 42, bill 0'7 to 0-6. 



Hab. Venezuela. 



«. Ad. sk. Venezuela. Massena Coll. (Type 



of species.) 

 b. Ad. sk. Venezuela (Spence). Sclater Coll. 



18. Pyrrhura rhodocephala. (Plate III.) 



Conurus rhodocephalus, Sclat. §• Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 787 ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. i. p. 766 (1872) ; Sclat. 8f Salt: Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 112, n.32 (1873) ; Sclat. Ibis, 1881, p. 131. 

 rv rrh ura rhodocephala, Bchnw. Jourti. f. Orn. 1881, p. 340 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 180;; id. VogeBnld. Xachtr."96 (1883). 



Adult male. Green ; pileum rosy red ; ear-covorts dull red ; cheeks 

 green: a slight tinge of red on the throat; a brown-red patch in 

 the middle of the abdomen ; a few orange-red feathers on the bend 

 of the wing and along the carpal edge ; bastard-wing and jirimary- 

 coverts white; first primary black, the remainder blue on the outer 

 webs and with narrow green edges; secondaries green; smaller 

 under wing-coverts green, greater ones blackish, washed with olive, 

 but often some of them white ; quills underneath blackish, with a 

 slight olive tingo on the inner webs : tail coppery red, sometimes 

 with a slight tinge of green at the base : bill horn-whitish : feet 

 dusky : iris brown-red, or red. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 

 tail 4*5, hill 7. tarsus - 45. 



