22. PI0N0P8ITTACU8. 343 



Coll. 



5. Pionopsittacus hsematotis. 



Pionus hsematotis, Sclat. # Salv. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 300; Salv. $ 



Sclat. Ibis, 18G0, p. 401, pi. xiii. ; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 147 (note; ; 



Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 13 (1809); Frantz. Journ.f. 



Orn. 1869, p. 366; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 163, n. 8308 (1870). 

 Caica hsematotis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 20; id. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 3-56, n. 2126 (1862) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 158 (Veragua) ; 



Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837 ; Salv. Ibis, 1871, pp. 87, 96 ; 



Sclat. $■ Salv. Nbmencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 114, n. 3 (1873) ; Salv. 



Ibis, 1874, p. 329; Zeled. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. viii. p. Ill (1885). 

 Amazona hsematotis, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 65 (1864). 

 Pionias haematotis, Finsch, Papa;;, ii. p. 420 (1868) ; Gieb. T/ies. 



Orn. iii. p. 190 (1877) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann. k. naturhist. Hofmus. 



iii. p. 40 (1888). 

 Eucinetus haematotis, Rchmo. Jburn. f. Orn. 1881, p. 355 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 195); id. Vo/jelbild. Nachtr. 110 (1883). 



Adult. Green, the abdomen and under tail-coverts lighter ; 

 pileum and nape brown-olive, each feather with dark shaft and with 

 a narrow brown-red edge ; frontal edge and lores white ; an ill- 

 defined collar round the neck and the breast brown-olive ; sides of 

 the head and throat blackish ; on the cheeks a slight reddish-brown 

 tinge; ear-coverts stained with blood-red; chin sometimes white; 

 sides of the breast and axillaries bright red ; the outermost upper 

 wing-coverts, below the bend of the wing, deep blue; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and primaries black, washed with deep blue 

 on the outer webs, which show a narrow yellowish edge ; second- 

 aries and greater upper wing-coverts with the outer webs light 

 blue, edged with green : small under wing-coverts green, more or 

 less tinged with deep blue, especially near the carpal edge ; greater 

 under wing-coverts and inner webs of the quills below verditer- 

 green, sometimes verditer-blue ; tail olive-green, with the tip blue, 

 the lateral tail-feathers red on the inner webs except at the tips, 

 the outer feathers deep blue on the outer webs ; tail below verditer- 

 green, with the inner webs of the lateral feathers, except at the 

 tip, dull red : bill horn-white ; feet pale horn-brown. Total length 

 about 9 inches, wing 5-8, tail 2'5, bill 0'82, tarsus 0"5. 



Female. Like the male. 



Yuuia/. Wants the brown-red narrow edges to the feathers of 

 the pileum. 



llab. Central America from S. Mexico to Veragua. 



a. Ad. sk. San Lorenzo (Canton de Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Cordova), Mexico, 



June ( Ferrari- Perez). 



b. Ad.sk. Rashch6,VeraPaz, March Salvin-Godman Coll. ) T 



(O.Salvm). T e 



c Ad.sk. Choituni. \ ira Paz, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. ( „ 



(O. Stolvin). ) s P ecies - 



