352 PSITTACIIW.. 



wing and primary-coverts black ; quills black, the primaries with 

 narrow green edges on the outer webs, the tertials green-yellow on the 

 outer webs ; metacarpal ed^e with a rose-coloured longitudinal mark ; 

 under wing-coverts near the edge of the wing black, the remainder 

 blue, but the greater ones, like the inner webs of the quills below, 

 verditer-blue ; tail pink rose-colour, with a mauve mark, the two 

 central feathers nearly uniform, the lateral ones with a black band 

 near the tip : " bill whitish yellow ; feet pale ; iris brown " (Leotaud). 

 Total length about 6-4 inches, wing 4-6, tail 1-9, bill 07, tarsus 0-4. 



Female. Like the male (Leotaud). 



Young. More bluish on the breast, and with the tail-feathers 

 more reddish (Leotaud). 



Bab. Trinidad and Venezuela. 



a. Ad. st. S. America. Baron Laugier Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. S. America. Baron Laugier Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. R. America. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Selater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. Ad.sk. Caracas, Venezuela (Goering). Sclater Coll. 



g, h, i. Ad.sk. Caracas, Venezuela. Tweeddale Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Venezuela. Tweeddale Coll. 



1. Ad. sk. [Cayenne] (Jehki). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Urochroina wiedi. 



Psittacus melanonotus, Lickt. (nee Shaw) in Mies. Bevnl. ; Wted, B is. 



Bras. i. p. 275 (1820) ; Kuhl, Consp.Fsitt. p. 59 (1820). 

 Psittacus erythrnrus, Pr. Man'//)., fide Kuhl. I. c. (nee Kuhl). 

 Coffee-backed Parrot, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 262 (1822). 

 Psittacula melanotus, Steph. Gen. Zoo!, xiv. p. 142 (1820) ; Less. Tr. 



d'Orn. p. 202 (1831). 

 Psittacus melanotus, Wted, Beitr. iv. p. 236 (1832) ; Hdhn, Orn. 



Atl., Papag. p. 83, t. 63 (1836). 

 Psittacula melanota, Wagl. Man. Psitt. p: 620 (1832) ; Hartl. Syst. 



Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 88 (1844) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 423, n. 6 



(1846). 

 Psittacula melanonota, Bourj. Perr. pi. 95 (1837-38) ; Burnt. Syst. 



Ueb. ii. p. 196 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 87 



(1859); Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 70 (1864); Finsch, 



Papag. ii. p. (575 (18(38) ; Pek. Orn. Bras. pp. 268 (note), 449 



(1871) ; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 31 (1874) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 328 (1877). 

 Psittacula melanonotus, Lieht. Nomencl. Av. p. 71 (1854). 

 Pvrrliulopsis melanotus, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 152, 



n. 130 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 185(3, p. 156. 

 Urochroma melanonota, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 128 ; 



Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 356, n. 2130 (1862); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 



ii. p. 1(37, n. 8360 (1870); Sclat. fy Salo. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 115, n. 3 (1873) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 469 (1882). 

 Pvrrliulopsis melanonotus, Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 13 



(1869). 

 Euchroura melanonota, Rc/i/ur. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 359 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 199) ; id. VogelbUd. Nachtr. 114 (1883). 

 Urochroma wiedi, Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist. ii. p. 264 



(1889). 



