23. GYPOPSITXACTJS. 349 



23. GYP0P3ITTACU3. 



J ype. 



G-ypopaitta, Bp. Nxumannia, L856, Consp. Psitt. gen. 25, G. vulturinus. 



limnje. Lower Amazon Valley. 



1. Gypopsittacus vulturinus. 



Paittacus vulturinus, ///. in Mus. Berol. ; Kuh', Consp. Psitt. p. 62 



(1820) ; L-ss. Tr. cTOrn. p. 199 (1831) ; Bowl Perr.vl. 59 1 1 837 



38); G. R. dr. Gen. />'. ii. p. 421, n. liJ (1846); id. Liit Psitt. 



Brit.Mus. p. 74 (1859). 

 Psittacula ? vulturina, Stepk. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 142 (1826). 

 Pionus vulturinus, Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 610, t. xxiv. f. 1 (1832); 



Barm. Spst. Ueb. ii. 'p. 194 (note) (1856). 

 Caica vulturina. Bp. Her. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 113; 



A' />it. <§• .W/>. P. /. .V. L867, pp. 588, 595 ; Soma, Mus. Xac. Lisb. 



Psittaci, p. 12 (1869) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Ac. Ne'otrop. p. 114, 



n. 5(1873). 

 Gvpopsitta vulturina, B/>. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 112; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 102, n. 8296 (1870). 

 Amazona vulturina, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 66 (1864) ; id. 



op. cit. Revue, p. 30 (1874). 

 Pionias vulturinus, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 427 (1868) ; Pelz. Orn. 



lira*, pp. 262, 447, liii (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 193 (1877 I. 

 Eucinetus vulturinus, Rchuo. Vogelbild. t. xxiv. f. 7 (1878-83); id. 



Joum.f. Orn. 1881, p. 357 {Consp. Psitt. p. 197). 



Adult. Green, abdomen with a bluish tinge ; head naked, or, 

 rather, covered with hairs ; bare skin of the head black, except on 

 the forehead and lores, where it is light, perhaps whitish ; the hairs 

 arc black on the black skin, and whitish on the forehead and lores ; 

 the naked head surrounded behind by a broad band, formed by 

 yellow feathers tipped with black ; nape blackish ; throat olive- 

 yellow, with the feathers edged with black ; thighs yellow stained 

 with red ; smaller upper wing-coverts orange, the innermost ones, 

 the carpal edge, and the whole of the under wing-coverts red ; on 

 the bend of the wing the orange feathers are tinged with red ; some 

 of the outermost median and greater upper wing-coverts blue, edged 

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

 with the outer webs deep blue ; secondaries black, with the outer 

 webs green, passing into blue towards the tips ; inner webs of the 

 quills below green ; tail green, with the tip blue above and green 

 below, the inner webs of the tail-feathers, except at the tip, yellow : 

 bill horn-grey, darker at the tip and along the culmen ; cere whitish ; 

 feet brown. Total length about 9 inches, wing - 2, tail 2S, bill 

 0-8, tarsus 0-5. 



Young. Head naked only on the forehead and lores, the rest 

 covered with short green leathers, yellowish at the bases ; similar 

 feathers cover also the hind neck, which is not black; the orange 

 hand along the cubital edge and also the red carpal edge are partly 

 green ; the greater under wing-covcrts partly green. 



Ilitb. Lower Amazon Valley, from Para to Borha. 



