jC) 1URDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



forest during the day. It was obvious that they gathered at night from 

 a considerable area. 



ARATINGA ASTEC ASTEC (Souance): Aztec Parakeet; 

 Perico Azteco 



Conurus astec Souance, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 9, March 1857, p. 97. 



(Mexico.) 

 Eupsittula astec cxtima Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 293, January 12, 1928, 



p. 2. (Almirante, Bocas del Toro.) 



A small, long-tailed parakeet ; green above, with a prominent longi- 

 tudinal blue band in the wing. 



Description. — Length 230-250 mm. Adult (sexes alike), feathered 

 area of cere yellow to orange-red; rest of upper surface, including 

 side of head and side of neck green, except for the distal secondaries 

 and proximal primaries which are deep blue, tipped with black ; throat 

 and under surface with foreneck olive to buffy olive, changing to 

 greenish olive on upper breast, and olive-yellow on lower breast and 

 abdomen, many of the feathers with dusky shaft lines; sides, under 

 lesser and middle wing coverts, and under tail coverts light green ; 

 under primary coverts and under surface of primaries and secondaries 

 dull slate, or dark mouse gray ; under surface of tail yellowish olive. 



Iris yellow to orange ; bill brownish horn color, with tips of maxilla 

 and mandible paler ; tarsus and toes fuscous to fuscous-black. 



Measurements. — Males (8 from Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, 

 and Panama), wing 131.6-139.6 (135.7), tail 100.3-115.3 (111.0), 

 culmen from cere 18.0-19.7 (18.8), tarsus 13.2-14.2 (13.8) mm. 



Females (7 from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama), wing 129.6- 

 134.9 (131.6), tail 94.4-116.9 (103.4), culmen from cere 15.6-18.8 

 (17.5), tarsus 13.5-14.3 (14.0) mm. 



Found in the Tropical Zone of western Bocas del Toro. Known 

 only from Almirante, and the Rio Changuinola. 



The first specimen of this bird taken in Panama was collected at 

 Farm 3 on Rio Changuinola April 15, 1927, by Austin Paul Smith. 

 This bird is in the Havemeyer collection in the Peabody Museum at 

 Yale. On August 24 of the same year Rex Benson secured 2 males at 

 Almirante, and on October 3 Hasso von Wedel shot a female at 

 Changuinola. Griscom described the Benson specimens as a separate 

 race extima, but with more material from farther north the supposed 

 differences in darker color on the lower surface prove to be merely 

 individual variation. 



