ID. HUNTS. 323 



p. 190 (1856); Sclat. P. Z S. 1857, pp. 19, 266, 1858, p. 460, 



1860, p. 287 ; ? Burm. Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 243 ; id. 



Seise, ii. p. 443 (1861\ ; Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 354, n. 2117 



(1862) ; Sclat. $ Salt: P. Z. S. 1864, p. 368; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, 



p. 158; Sclat. § Sale. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 588, 595, 753; Soma, 



Mus. Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 12 (1869); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 



p. 162, n. 8299 (syn. emend.) (1870) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 214; 



id. Ibis, 1871, pp. 87, 95; Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 186, 



300; iid. Nomencl. At: Neotrop.-p. 114, n. 1 (partimP) (1873); 



Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 466, 634, L874, p. 587; Sclat. Bawl. 



Orn. Misc. iii. pp. 6, 7 (part.) (1877) ; Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1879, pp. 538, 035; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 407 (1882); 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 351 (1883); Tacz. $ Berl. 



P. Z. S. 1885, p. 119; Zeled. Pt: U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. Ill 



(1885) ; Salv. Ibis, 1886, p. 69; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 218, Tabl. 



p. 100 (1886) ; Garlepp, Journ. f. Orn. 1889, p. 291 ; Berl. Journ. 



f. Orn. 1889, p. 317. 

 ? Psittacus maximiliani, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 723 (1848) 



(perhaps the young bird). 

 Pionus maximiliani (part.), G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 75, 



specim. a (1859) (juv. ). 

 ? Pionius menstruus, Lain: Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 299 (1861). 

 Aruazona menstrua, ScMeg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 60 (1864) ; id. 



op. cit. Revue, p. 28 (1874). 

 Pionias menstruus, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 441 (partial) (1868) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 586 ; Pdz. Orn. Bras. pp. 264, 447, liii 



(1871); Pdz. Ibis, 1873, p. 32; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 191 



(partim) (1877); Rchnw. Voqelbild. t. xxvi. f. 4 (1878-83); id. 



Journ. jf. Orn. 1881, p. 362 (Consp. Psitt. p. 202). 

 Pionus rubrigularis, Cab. Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 70; id. Journ. f. 



Orn. 1881, p. 222; Rchnw. u. Sc/ial. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, p. 119. 

 Pionus menstruus rubrigularis, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 222. 

 Pionias rubrigularis, Rchnw. Voijelbild. in the text of pi. xxvi. f. 4 



(1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 202 (Consp. Psitt. p. 202). 



Adult male. Green, upper wing-coverts in some lights golden 

 brown-olive ; head and neck bine ; a patch on the ear-coverts 

 black ; feathers of the throat with the bases pink-red, producing a 

 pinky-red patch more or less hidden ; feathers of the upper 

 breast green, more or less tinged with olive-brown, and edged with 

 blue ; under tail-coverts pink-red, with the tips green, more or less 

 bluish ; greater under wing-coverts and inner webs of the quills 

 below grass-green ; outer web of the first primary edged with 

 greenish blue ; central tail-feathers green, the lateral ones with the 

 outer webs bright blue, or blue towards the tips and green towards 

 the base, and with the inner webs green towards the tip and red 

 at the base : bill blackish, with a red patch at the base of the upper 

 mandible ; cere greyish ; feet grey ; iris brown. Total length about 

 11 inches, wing 7 - 0-7'2, tail 3, bill 1*03, tarsus 0-6. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Greener on the head, neck, and upper breast, where the 

 blue colour on the edges of the feathers is less developed than in 

 the adult birds ; sometimes a pinkish band mixed with blue on 

 the forehead. 



