20. DEROrTYTJS. 335 



Adult male. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts dark brown, the edges of the feathers lighter or earthy 

 brown ; head dark blue, lores tinged with red ; ear-coverts black ; 

 on the throat and sides of the neck a kind of whitish collar, pro- 

 duced by the whitish edges of the feathers ; chin-feathers edged 

 with reddish ; undcrparts brown, with a purple-red wash on the 

 edges of the feathers ; under tail-coverts purple-red ; bastard-wiug, 

 primary-coverts, quills, and smaller and median under wing-coverts 

 purple-blue ; quills below black, with the inner part of the inner 

 webs bright purple-blue, like the greater under wing-coverts ; tail 

 purple-blue, with the inner webs of the lateral feathers, except 

 at the tip, red : bill greyish black, towards the base of the upper 

 mandible yellowish ; feet grey-black ; iris brown-black. Total 

 length LO'5 inches, wing 6-5, tail 2 - 7, bill 1, tarsus 0'6. 



Female. Like the male. 



Youmj. Some of the upper wing-coverts are edged with green, 

 also the secondaries have a greenish tinge. 



Hub. Guiana and Lower Amazons as far up as Rio Negro and 

 Borba. 



There is a good deal of individual variation in this species, some 

 specimens being much darker above than others, or having the 

 undcrparts of a much brighter purple-red tinge. 



a. Ad. st. Purchased. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



€. Ad. sk. S. America. J. Gould, Esq [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. British Guiana {Schomburgk). Geograph. Soc. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. British Guiana. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i, h. 3 $ ad. sk. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



September (H. Whitely). 



/, m. J imm. sk. Bartica Grove, Aug., Sept. H. Whitely [C.]. 



n. $ ad. sk. River Carimang, Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



September (H. Whitely). 



o. Ad. sk. Para ( Wallace). Sclater Coll. 



p, q. Skeletons. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



20. LEROPTYUS. 



Type. 

 Deroptyus, Wagl. Man. Psitt p. 492 (1832) D. accipitrinus. 



Uerotypus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 5 (1850) D. accipitrinus. 



Range. Guiana, Amazon Valley, and N.E, Brazil. 



1. Deroptyus accipitrinus. 



l'sittacus elegans, Clus. e.n>f. Aurtuar. p. 366. 



Psittacns dedans Clusii, Hay, Syn. Av. p. 32, n. 11 (1713). 



The Hawk-headed Parrot, Edw. Birds, iv. pi. 165 (1751); Lath. 



Syn. i. p. 268, n. 71 (with var. A. p. 2(17) (1781); id. Gen. Hist. 



ii. pp. 215, 216 (with vara. A. B) (1822). 

 Psittacus varius Indicus, Brits. Orn. iv. p. 800 (1760). 



