19. pioncjs. '3'2\ 



Pionias brachyurus, Finsch, Papaq. ii. p. 410 (1868) ; Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. pp. 262, 447, liii ( L871) ; Gieb. The*. Orn. iii. p. 189 (1877). 

 Pionopsitta brachyura, Sail). Ibis, 1876, p. 496; Iierl. Joum.f. Orn. 



1889, p. 100. 

 Pachynus bracbyurus, llchnw. Juurn. f. Orn. 1881, p. 353 (Consp. 



Ps'itt. p. 193) ;' id. VogeU>Ud. t. xxxiii. f. 7 (1883) ; Taos. Orn. Per. 



iii. p. 216 (1886). 



Adult male. Green ; tail-coverts and underparfcs paler, yellowish 

 green ; primaries and their coverts darker green ; secondaries and 

 greater wing-coverts edged with yellowish green ; on the smaller 

 wing-coverts, along the cubital edge, a dark red patch ; under wing- 

 coverts green edged with yellowish green, the greater ones and 

 inner webs of the quills verditer-green ; tail yellowish green, the 

 two central feathers greener, the lateral ones with a red band near 

 the base : bill dusky horn-grey ; feet brown ; " iris red " ( Whiteltj). 

 Total length 8*75 inches, wing 5 55, tail 2-4, bill 1, tarsus 0-55. 



/ •'< nude. Like the male. 



Young. According to Wagler, the red band towards the base of 

 the tail is wanting. 



Hub. Upper Amazons and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. st. Brazil. Zoological Society's 



Coll. 



b. <$ ad. sk, Samiria, Upper Amazons, Octo- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ber (J. Ilauxwell) . 



c. 2 <id. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



d. $ ad. sk. Barra do Rio Negro, November Sclater ColL 



(Nat t ere r). 



19. PIONUS. 



Type. 



Pionus, Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 497 (1832) P. menstruua. 



Pionias, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 366 (1868). 



Cf. Sclater, Rowl. Orn. Misc. iii. pp. 5-9, pis. Ixxx., lxxxi. 



Mange. From Southern Mexico and Central America to Paraguay 

 and Argentine Republic. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Primaries and their wing-coverts green. 

 «'. Head entirely blue, or with all the 



feathers edged with blue menstrua*, p. 322. 



b'. Head not entirely blue, or with no blue 

 .■it all. 

 a". Cheeks green. 

 a'". Hill red. 

 a*. Hill red, with the base of the 

 culmen dusky ; breast and ab- 

 domen earthy or dirty olive . . sorduhts, p. 325. 

 b*. Bill entirely coral-red; breast 



and abdomen green ccrallinus, p. 326. 



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