--. 1'IONOPSITTAC'US. 34J 



Adult. Green, the abdomen with a slight bluish tinge; head and 

 chin black; cheeks orange-yellow, surrounded underneath bv a 

 black baud, joining the black chin ; throat and breast olive • thighs 

 yellow, sometimes tinged with red; smaller upper wing-cove°rts 

 along the cubital edge orange-yellow, with the base of the feathers 

 red; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries black, with a 

 blue tinge ; secondaries and greater upper wing-coverts black, with 

 the outer webs blue, edged with green, the green colour increasing 

 on the inner feathers ; carpal edge and the whole of the under win-- 

 coverts orange-vermiJion, the feathers along the carpal ed^e 

 bordered with orange ; inner webs of the quills below green • tail 

 above green, with the tip blue, the inner webs of the lateral 

 leathers, except at the tip, yellow; tail below green, with the inner 

 webs of the lateral feathers, except at the tip, yellow • bill horn- 

 brown : feet dusky green (?) ; "iris red" (Spix). Total length 

 about 10 inches, wmg 67, tail 2-7, bill 0-87, tarsus 0-6. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Pileum brown; feathers of the forehead, nape, cheeks 

 and chin olive, edged with brown ; cubital edge green with a few 

 yellow feathers ; a few green feathers along the metacarpal ed<*e 

 and among the greater under wing-coverts ; primaries edged with 

 yellow towards the tip of the outer webs. 



Hub. Upper Amazon Valley to the base of the Andes. 



The statement that this species is found also in British Guiana 

 rests only on the specimen mentioned below as collected there 

 by lv Sehomburgk ; but as the species is not mentioned in Schom- 

 burgk s ' Eeise,' I suppose there is some mistake about that locality 



laczanowski and perhaps other ornithologists describe the female 

 as differing from the male, but I have no doubt they have mistaken 

 the young bird for the female. 



a' ^ d- /'i G*"^ Guiaua -] Sir R. Schomburgk [P.l 



b. 6 ad. sk. Marabitanas, Brazil, March Sclater Coll 



(Nattercr). 



c 2 ad. sk. Marabitanas, Brazil, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(batterer). 



(1. Ad. sk. R. Amazons. Purchased. 



e : Ad - sk \ Eg*- Purchased. 



/.//. Ad. pk. ]\ ap0; Ecuador (Bud;!,;,). Salvin-Godman Coll 



/>, i. Ad et Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll 



jiiv. sk. %). 



k. 2 juv. sk. Sarayacu,Ecuador(i?(/r^/(y). Sclater Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Loretoyacu, Upper Amazons, Sclater Coil! 



November (Huu.vinll). 



»»,». rf?ad. Samhia, Upper Amazons, Salvin-Godman Coll 



sJ <- November (Hauxteell). 



9. Pionopsittacus pyrilia. 

 Psittacula pyrilia, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxvii. p. H)7 fnoteX18531 



id. Not. Coll. IMatfre. p. 2 (note) ( 1854). l nore UJ *) 



Evopaitta pyrilia, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, „. 78. 



