15. PSITTACULA. 243 



a. Ad. sk. P (Delattre). E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. Guayaquil, Ecuador (Boucard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Guayaquil, Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Guayaquil, Ecuador. Capt. Kellet and 



Lieut. Wood [P.]. 



f. Ad.sk. Puna Island, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Babahoyo, Ecuador (JPraser). Sclater Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. S. America. G. Barclay, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Psittacula couspicillata. 



Psittacula conspicillata, Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1848, p. 172; 



Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 152, n. 135 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 162; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 156; Bp. 



Naumannia, 1856, Cofisp. Psitt. n. 133; Souance, Icon. Perr. 



pi. xli. (3 j) (1857); G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 86 



(1859) ; Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 351, n. 2136 (1862) ; Finsch, 



Papac/.\i.2, p. 663 (partim) (1868); G. R. Or. Hand-list, ii. 



p. 166, n. 8352 (1870); Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 88 (note); Sclat. $ 



Sail). Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 115, n. 5 (1873); Gieb. Thes. Om. 



iii. p. 327 (1877) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 350 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 190) ; id. Yoqelbild. Nachtr. 108 (1878-83) ; Ridgw. Pr. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 536 (1887) ; Hartl. Journ. f. Om. 1889, p. 113. 

 Psittacula cyanopis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 71 (1854). 

 Psittacula orbitula, Rchb. in Schaufuss Catal. 1862 (teste Finsch, 



Papag. ii. p. 663). 

 Psittaculus conspicillatus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 32 (1864) ; 



id. op. cit. Revue, p. 8 (1874). 



Adult male. Above dull green, becoming brigbt green on fore- 

 head, crown, and cheeks ; orbital region cobalt-blue ; lower back, 

 rump, edge of the wing, secondaries, base of the shorter primaries, 

 primary-coverts, greater upper wing-coverts, under wing-coverts, 

 and axillars rich ultramarine-blue, darker on rump ; upper tail- 

 coverts green ; lower parts dull malachite-green, with a slight 

 greyish tinge on the breast ; inner web of the quills bluish green ; 

 tail green : bill whitish ; feet flesh-colour. Total length 4-7 inches, 

 wing 325, tail To, bill - 5, tarsus 0-4. 



Adult female. Green ; no trace of blue anywhere ; upper parts 

 less dull and rather brighter green than in males ; round the 

 eyes and on lower back and rump bright green, inclining to emerald ; 

 lower parts entirely apple-green; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 similar, but less yellowish ; inner webs of the quills underneath 

 dull bluish green. 



Younij. Xo blue colour round the eyes; the blue on the rump 

 and on the wings is mixed with green ; under wing-coverts as in 

 the female. 



Hah. Colombia (and Eastern Ecuador). 



a, b. Ad. sk. "Nicaragua. 1 E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Bogota skin. Van Patten [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Bogota ( VUlagomm), Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



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