348 J-SLTTACTDJ3. 



Pyrilia typica, Pp. Xaumannia, 18j6, Consp. Psitt. n. 76 ; Souance, 



Icon. Pen: pi. xxvi. (1857). 

 Chrysotis pyrilia, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 84 (1859). 

 Pionias pyrilia*, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 419 (1808) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. iii. p. 192 (1877). 

 Pionias pyrilias, Finsch, op. cit. ii. 2, p. 962 (1868). 

 Pyrilia pyrilia, G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 165, n. 8347 (1870). 

 Caica pyrilia, Sclat. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 14, n. 2 ( 1873) ; 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1872, pp. 126, 381 ; Sclat. fy Salt: ibid, (note); iid. 



P.Z.S. 1875, pp. 237, 238, 1879, p. 538; Perl. Journ. f. Orn. 



1884, p. 319. 

 Eucinetus pyrillus, Rchnto. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 386 {Consp. Psitt. 



p. 196) ; id. Vogelbild. Nacb.tr. 112 (1883). 



Adult. Green, paler underneath ; head and throat yellow ; ear- 

 coverts washed with red ; nape, throat, and upper breast olive ; 

 thighs with some yellow and red feathers ; small upper wing-coverts 

 along the cubital edge yellow, with the bases red ; the outermost 

 median wing-coverts partly blue, the greater ones blue, edged with 

 green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; primaries black, 

 with a blue tinge and narrow blue-green edges ; the first primary 

 entirely black ; secondaries black-blue, with green edges on the 

 outer webs ; the whole of the under wing-coverts, and also the 

 axillaries, the sides, and the carpal edge red ; inner webs of the 

 quills underneath green ; tail above green, with the tip blue ; the 

 inner webs of the lateral tail-feathers, except at the tip, yellow ; 

 the outer tail-feather has the outer web blue ; tail under- 

 neath green, slightly bluish at the tip, and yellowish on the inner 

 webs of the feathers : bill horn-white; feet dusky (olive?) : "iris 

 dark brown ; nuked skin round the eyes white "( Wyatt). Total 

 length about 9 inches, wing 5-8, tail 2 8, bill 0-75, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. No yellow on the head, which is green, with an olive 

 tin°-e on the sides; throat olive, like the upper part of the breast; 

 no yellow on the smaller upper wing-coverts, which are green ; 

 metacarpal edge green, with a few red feathers ; smaller under 

 win^-coverts red, but the greater ones green ; the primaries have 

 narrow yellow edges towards the tips. 



Hub. Colombia and Venezuela. 



a. Ad. sk. Columbia ( Wyatt). Sclater Coll. 



b A ad sk Naranjo, Magdalena Valley Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Wyatt). 

 c Ad. sk. Between Quito and Bogota Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Vittagomez). 

 d A ad. sk. San Christoval, Venezuela Salvm-Godnian Coll. 



{Goer i iig). 

 e. Ad. sk. Medellin/U. S. of Colombia Sclater Cull. 



{Salmon), 

 f a. <$ $ ad. sk. Remedios, U. S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Salmon). 

 ^, Ojuv.sk. Kemedios, U. S. of Colombia Sclater Cull. 



(Salmon). 



* An potius pyrilia, Finsch, I.e. (note) ? 



