Additional Species of Pyrrhura. 673 



breast being pure grey edged with whitish, with iio tinge 

 whatever of green or bluish colour ; moreover the grey breast 

 is sharply defined from the green below, and there is no 

 bluish tinge whatever on the forehead. Dr. Reichenow 

 (//. cc.) has described and figured this species under tiie name 

 of P. leucotis. I have called his attention to the probable 

 distinctness of the bird described by him, and he writes 

 agreeing entirely with my conclusions, adding that the speci- 

 men in the Berlin Museum had been kept in captivity, and 

 there is no clue to its origin. The Turin Museum possesses 

 two specimens exactly like Dr. Reich "uow's plat3, both of 

 which had been kept in confinement by Count Peracca, who 

 received them from a dealer ; their exact locality is unknown, 

 but I suspect that Guiana is the place where the species may 

 be looked for. 



Owing to these additions, the key to the species of the 

 geiuis Pijrrhura printed in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' must 

 be partly altered as follows, so as to include P. chiripepe and 

 the newly-described species : — 



a. A brown-red patch on the lower back. 



a' . Breast blue, with no transverse bars . . 1. cruentata, p. 213. 

 b' . Breast with transverse bars, or scale-like 

 appearance. 

 a" . Breast with transverse bars. 

 n" . Cheeks and pileum green. 



a*. Tail green above, more or less 

 tinged with reddish towards the 



tip of the rectrices 2. z>ittata, p. 214. 



i'. Tail above uniform olive-green. 



«*. Bend of the wing green .... 3. chiripepe. 



ffi. Bend of the wing red 4. borellii. 



b'" . Cheeks maroon, bend of the wing 

 red. 

 o'. Fore-neck and breast bluish- 

 green, gradually blending in the 

 green colour of the lower parts, 

 c\ Pileiun brown, with a very 

 slight tinge of blue near the 

 forehead o. leucotis, p. 216. 



