25. caica. 359 



Gen. B. ii. p. 421, n. 15 (partim.) (1846) ; Cab. in Schomb. Guiana. 



in. p. 723 (1848) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 73 (1859) ; 



Pek. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1865, pp. 923 (part.), 924 ; Gullio. 



P. Z. S. 1875, p. 489. 

 La Petite Perrnche Mavpouri de Cayenne, UAubent. PL Enl. 527. 

 Le Mavpouri, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 250 (1779). 

 Psittacus atricapillus, J. F. Miller, Cim. Phys. t. 4 (1796). 

 Le Perroquet Maipouri, Levaill. Pert. pis. 119 (ad.), 120 (var.) 



(1805). 

 Pionus melanocephalus, part., Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 608 (excl. av. 



horn.) (1832) ; Burm. Si/st. Ue'b. ii. p. 193 (note) (syn. emend.) 



(1856). 

 Psittacus badiceps, Guer. (nee Lear) Leon. Regn.An. C'uv., Ois. p. 24, 



pi. 36 bis. f. 2 (1829-38) ; Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. t. 64. 

 Poicephalus melanocephalus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 301 (1837). 

 Caica melanocephalus, Bp. Consp. Av. p. 5 (syn. emend.) (1850) ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1886, p. 69. 

 Caica nielanocephala, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 108 ; 



Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 154; Bp. Naumannia, 



1856, Co?isp. Psitt. n. 107 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 19 ; id. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 355, n. 2124 (1862) ; Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, 



p. 588 ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Psitt. p. 12 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 161, n. 8290 (1870) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, 



pp. 446, 633 ; Sclat. <§■ Solo. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 114. n. 7 



(1873) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 587; Rchmv. Vogelbild. t. x. f. 2 



(1878-83) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 468 (1882) ; Sclat. List 



Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 35 (1883) ; W. L. Sclat. Ibis, 1887, p. 317. 

 Amazona melanocephala, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 64 (1864) ; 



id. op. cit. Revue, p. 29 (1874). 

 Pionias melanocephalus, Finsc/t, Papag. ii. p. 432 (1868) ; Pelz. 



Orn. Bras. pp. 262, 447, liii (1871) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 117 ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. iii. p. 191 (1877). 

 Pceocephalus melanocephalus, Rchmv. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 382 



(Consp. Psitt. p. 222). 

 Pionites melanocephalus, Heine § Rchmv. Nomencl. Mus.Hein. Orn. 



p. 231 (1890). 



Adult. Back, wings, and tail green ; pileum black ; cheeks and 

 throat yellow ; lores and a streak under the eyes green ; a collar 

 round the hind neck, bordered above and below with some bluish 

 feathers, orange-rufous ; breast and abdomen white cream-colour : 

 sides of the breast, axillaries, flanks, and thighs orange-yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts yellower; primary-coverts and primaries black, 

 with the outer webs deep blue, edged with green ; carpal edge 

 partly yellow ; greater under wing-coverts and quills below black; 

 tail-feathers edged with yellow at the tip, underneath brown with 

 golden reflexions : bill horn-black ; feet and naked skin round the 

 eves black : iris with an inner ring brown and an outer one red. 

 Total length about 9-3 inches, wing 5-5. tail 2'8, bill 1, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Feathers of the pileum brown with green edges 

 | Wagler). 



/lab. Guiana and Upper Amazons as far as Rio Negro, and perhaps 

 also Bogota (Sclater). 



