15. PSITTACULA. 247 



^ f G M : n b i U „ W n hi - i8h ; feet du8k ^ Total len ^ h 5 inc ^s, wing 



6, tail 1-5, bill 0-5, tarsus 0-42. 



Adult female. Without any blue whatever ; above green, brighter 

 more emerald green on rump; uuderparts yellowish green, some- 

 times forehead and cheeks yellower than lower parts 



Young male. « Similar to adult female, but with secondaries, 

 shorter primaries, and innermost primary-coverts blue, the rump 

 and under wing-coverts also sometimes interspersed with bright 

 blue feathers." (Ridgway.) 



Hab. Brazil. 



Mr. Ridgway confines the true P. paiserina to the Ceara 

 Intact of Eastern Brazil, between Cape St. Roque and the mouth 



01 the Amazon, while he makes a subspecies (Psittacula passerina 

 tnvula) of the b.rds from the Bahia District ; the latter he states to 

 be darker or purer green, both above and below, with rump of the 

 male rich ultramarine instead of cobalt, while the Ceara bird, 

 according to Mr. Ridgway, "is light parrot-green, becoming more 

 yellowish green on forehead, where, as also all round base of the bill 

 it is yellowish apple-green ; sides of head and entire lower parts 

 apple-green; lower back, rump, secondaries (except tertials), 

 shorter primaries, primary-coverts, alula, greater coverts, under 

 wing-coverts, and axillars uniform rich cobalt-blue " 



-There is no specimen in the British Museum from the Ceara 

 Uistriet, so that I am not able to test the differences pointed 

 out by Mr Ridgway ; but, as a matter of fact, I can state that the 

 majority oi specimens from the Bahia District, which, according to 

 r Rld S^fy, ought to belong to the darker and purer green race, 

 have a good deal of yellowish tinge about the forehead, cheeks, and 

 lower parts. ' 



a. Ad. st. S. America. 



b. Ad. st. S.America. 



Zoological Societv's 

 Coll. 



I'd AH 1 £• America. Purchased. 



? fo 1 orf.i £ era <™ibuco, Brazil (Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. L V lad. sk. Pernanibuco, Brazil (Forbes). Sclater Coll. 



a h ? \f L i a U(l ' t'™} ( WuBherer )- Sclater Coll. 



?' I! s t d ' SL g^Brazil ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



*. Ad. sk. Aovo Fnbourgo, S.E. Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(louds). 



n^il "J a v° P? Ul °' u^ {J ° yn " r) - Salvin-Godman Coll. 



» a i o 5' i tT M kro ' Bmzi1 (*>!/>">■)■ Salvin-Godman Coll. 



%> f {/ ad< sk - frazil. _ Sc l at e r Co ll. 



t. \ ad sf & - AmenCa - J p Go«ld, Esq. [P.]. 



„ I , i , N -r, ., Purchased. 



u. Ad.sk.(var.). Brazil. Massena CoI1 



v. Skeleton. (Type ° f R chn J S0 9^r, Parz.) 



5. Psittacula crassirostris. 



PI ^oNa o??Sl at8 ' Part ' **"**' Papa9 ' "' "' pp ' ° 64 ' 665 

 Pbittacula passerina, Sclat, $ Salv. (nee Linn.) P. Z. S. 1873, p. 301 



