FAMILY PSITTACIDAE 77 



It is suggestive to note that the 4 specimens recorded to date from 

 Panama were taken between April and October in the same year. Pos- 

 sibly they were wanderers from farther north. 



ARATINGA PERTINAX OCULARIS (Sclater and Salvin) : 

 Brown-throated Parakeet; Perico Carisucia 



Figure 9 



Conurus ocularis P. L. Sclater and Osbert Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 

 p. 367. (Near Panama City, Panama.) 



Green, with blue-tipped wings, side of head and upper breast buffy 

 brown ; an orange-yellow band around the eye. 



Description. — Length 220-245 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 bluish green (in some this color faint) ; rest of upper surface green, 

 except for the distal secondaries and inner primaries, which are dull 

 blue or greenish blue at the ends ; ends of the outer primaries dusky 

 black ; a narrow space in front of eye, and a broader area below, ex- 

 tending back to a point above the ear coverts, orange-yellow ; sides of 

 head, including lores, buffy brown, the buff tinge increasing on the 

 foreneck and upper breast ; rest of under surface light yellowish green, 

 becoming more yellow on the abdomen ; under surface of tail olive- 

 yellow ; under surface of flight feathers and under greater wing 

 coverts slate color ; smaller under wing coverts light green. 



Immature, foreneck and upper breast usually greener than in adult ; 

 no orange-yellow around the eye. 



A male taken at El Potrero, Code, March 5, 1962, had the iris light 

 yellow ; somewhat wrinkled bare skin around eye very pale buffy white, 

 with the spaces between the corrugations pale greenish white ; cere and 

 bare throat pale brownish gray ; gonys pale brownish gray ; rest of bill 

 fuscous-black ; tarsus and toes dusky neutral gray, with the spaces 

 between the scutes dull whitish ; claws black. Another of this sex shot 

 at Olivo near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, March 7, 1966, had the iris 

 orange-yellow. 



A female collected near Aguadulce, Code, January 19, 1963, had the 

 iris slightly orange-yellow; cere and the bare throat dull brownish 

 white ; bare skin around eye pale yellowish white ; bill dark mouse 

 brown ; tarsus and toes fuscous-brown, with the spaces between the 

 scutes dull white ; claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama), wing 130.6-139.7 

 (134.1), tail 94.8-113.0 (102.2), culmen from cere 18.7-19.6 (19.2), 

 tarsus 14.0-14.3 (14.1) mm. 



