338 PSITTACID.E. 



Chrysotis cyanogaster, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 422, n. 17 (1846) ; 



id. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 85 (18-59). 

 Amazona cyanogaster, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 66 (1864) ; 



id. op. cit. Bevue, p. 30 (1874). 

 Pionias cyanogaster, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 407 (1868) ; Peh. Om. 



Bras. pp. 261, 442, liii (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 189 (1877). 

 Triclaria cyanogaster, Rchnic. Vogelbild. t. xxvi. f. 8 (1878-83) ; id. 



Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 352 (Consp. Psitt. p. 192). 



Adult male. Green ; chin and thighs slightly tinged with blue ; 

 middle of the abdomen and also of the lower breast purple-blue ; 

 outer web of the first primary blue, the next three or four primaries 

 tinged with blue towards the tip of the outer webs ; greater under 

 wing-coverts and inner webs of the primaries below verditer-blue ; 

 tail-feathers green, tipped with blue, the outer one tinged with blue 

 also on the outer web ; tail underneath uniform verditer-blue : bill 

 horn-white ; feet brownish ; iris brown. Total length 12-2 inches, 

 wing 6-4, tail 4-7, bill 0-'J5, tarsus 0-58. 



Female. Smaller than the male and with the abdomen entirely 

 green, having no blue patch in the middle ; besides, the under surfaco 

 of the tail is more greenish. 



Young males have the blue patch on the abdomen much smaller. 



Hub. South-eastern Brazil. 



a, b. Ad. st. S. America. Baron Laugier's Coll. 



c. Ad. st. S. America. Gould Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. $ ad. sk. Ypanema, Brazil, Sept. {Nat- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



terer). 



f. Imm. sk. Brazil. Tweeddale Coll. 



g. h. 5 ad. et Brazil. Sclater Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



22. PIONOPSITTACUS. 



Type. 



Les Caicas, Less. Tr. eTOra. p. 198(1831); id. Compl. 



de Buff. ix. p. 212 (1837) P. pileatus. 



Pionopsitta, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 152 .... P. pileatus. 

 Caica, Gr. (nee Bp.) List Gen. # Subgen. Birds, p. 88 



(1855) P caica. 



Pyrilia, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. gen. 20 P. pyrilia. 



Pionopsittacus, Sund. Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 69 



(1872). 

 Eucinetus, Rchnv. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 353 P. caica. 



Range. From Central America to Guiana, Brazil, Upper Amazon, 

 and Paraguay. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Inner webs of the tail-feathers with no yellow 



colour. 



a. Upper wing-coverts black melanotis, p. 339. 



b'. Upper wing-coverts never black. 



a". Axillaries green. 



