342 psittacid^;. 



a. Ad.sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll. 1 ,T„ naar .f 



{Buckley). 1 ( Te 



b. Ad. sk. San Lucas, Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll. f OT , on : p<1 \ 



{Buckley). J ^P ecieS ^ 



c. Ad. sk. Jima, Ecuador {Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 



d. Ad. sk. Jima, Ecuador (Buck- Sclater Coll. 



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e. Ad. sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador Sclater Coll. 



(Buckley). 



4. Pionopsittacus amazoninus. 



Psittaeus amazoninus, Des Murs, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 207; id. Icon. 



Orn. pi. 15 (1845) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 20 (1848) ; 



Brehm, Man. d. Papag. t. 51. 

 Evopsitta amazonina, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 79; 



Houance, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 153. 

 Euopsitta amazonina, >Sclat. P. Z. S. 18S5, p. 162. 

 Pyrilia amazonina, Bp. JSaumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 77 ; 



Souance, Icon. Pert: pi. xxv. (1857). 

 Chrvsotis amazonina, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 85 



(1859). 

 Pionias amazoninus, Finsch, Papa//, ii. p. 417 (1868); Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. iii. p. 189(1877). 

 Pyrilia des mursii, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 165, n. 8346 (1870). 

 Caica amazonina, ScJat. Sf Salv. JXomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 114, n. 1 



(1873). 

 Amazona amazonina, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 30 



(1874). 

 Pionopsitta amazonina, Salr. Ibis, 1876, pp. 495, 496. 

 Eucinetus amazonicus, Rchnw. Voyelbild. t. xxiv. f. 8 (1878-83). 

 Eucinetus amazoninus, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 355 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 195). 



Adult. Green ; sinciput, sides of the head, cheeks and chin 

 dull red ; lores yellowish ; crown, temporal region, and ear-coverts 

 with yellow-orange streaks ; occiput, like the remainder of the upper 

 parts, grass-green ; throat and upper breast olive-green, lower 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale or yellowish green ; 

 small upper wing-coverts, bend of the wing, and small under wing- 

 coverts red ; outermost greater upper wing-coverts blue ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts deeper blue; primaries brown-black, 

 with the bases of the outer webs purple-blue ; secondaries blue, 

 broadly edged with green on the outer webs ; greater under wing- 

 coverts verditer-blue ; inner webs of the quills below blue ; tail 

 blue, with the basal half dull red, brighter and deeper above than 

 below: bill horn-grey; feet blackish grey. Total length about 

 9 inches, wing 6, tail 3-2, bill 0-75, tarsus 0"5. 



Juv. Like the adult bird ; the yellow streaks on the ear-coverts 

 scarcely visible ; face duller red ; secondaries green, on the edge of 

 the wing only a few pale red feathers ; under wing-coverts green- 

 blue. (Finsch.) 



Hub. New Granada. 



