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rsiTTACID.T,. 



a. Ad. st. Rio Javarri. H. W. Bates [C.]. I (Types of 



b. Ad. sk. Rio Javarri. H. W. Bates [G.J. ( the species.) 



c. J ad. sk. Upper Amazons. Sclater Coll. 



26. PYOCEPHALUS. 



lvpe. 



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



Piocephalus, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 52 (1840). 

 Poeocephalus, Strickl. Ann. fy Mag. N. H. vii. p. 34 



(1841). 

 Poiecepkalus, Agass. Nomencl. Zool., Aves, p. 62 



(1842-46). 

 Poiocephalus, Agass. Nomencl. Zool., Aves, Add. p. 18 



(1842-46). 

 Pyocephalus, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. 



gen. 50. 

 Phseocephalus, Hartl. Syst. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 167 



(1857). 



Range. Confined to Africa, south of the desert of Sahara. 



Key to the Species. 



a. General colour green. 



a . Bend of the wing, metacarpal edge, thighs, 

 and often the forehead, except in young 

 hirds, red or yellowish scarlet. 

 a". Neck brown, with an olive or grey tinge ; 

 larger, wing 8'8 to 8'5 inches. 

 a'". Head and neck with an olive tinge . . robustus, p. 3(i.°». 



b" ' . Head and neck silvery grey fuscicollis, p. 364. 



b". Neck green ; smaller, wing not more 

 than 8 inches. 

 c". Sinciput, bend of the wing, metacarpal 



edge, and thighs yellow-orange gidielmi, p. 366. 



d'" . Forehead, bend of the wing, metacarpal , , or ._ 



edge, and thighs more or less red ... ^brganus, p 36, . 

 V. Bend of the wing°, metacarpal edge, and ' «"«*««* P- ^7. 

 thighs with no red colour. 

 c". Breast and abdomen green. 



e'". Under wing-coverts yellow fuscicapillus, p. 368. 



f". Under wing-coverts green. 



a '. Head brown crassus, p. 36! I. 



6*. Head more or less yellow. 



a 5 . Rump and upper tail-coverts grass- 

 green Jlavifrons, p. 369. 



6 s . Rump and upper tail-coverts bluish 



green citrinoeapillus, p. 370. 



d". Breast and abdomen yellow- or orange- 

 red. 



g'". Breast and abdomen yellow senegalus, p. 371. 



//". Breast and abdomen orange-red rersten, p. 372. 



/;. General colour brown. 



c . Bend of the wing brown like the upper 

 parts ; breast and abdomen pale vermilion 

 in the male, brown, with the edges of 

 the feathers green, in the female rirfirentn's, p. 372. 



