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are weakly specialized in slender form, especially at the tips. The 

 plumage of this area in the race of western Panama, does not show 

 this difference. 



Two eggs of this race from western Panama measure 26.8-27.5 X 

 22.0-22.6 mm., according to Schonwetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 9, 1964, 

 p. 517). 



PYRRHURA HOFFMANNI GAUDENS Bangs: Hoffmann's 

 Parakeet; Catana 



Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, July 

 30, 1906, p. 103. (Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



A slender, long-tailed parakeet ; green, with red cheeks, and a more 

 or less hidden yellow spot in the wing. 



Description. — Length 225-245 mm. Adult (sexes alike), general 

 coloration green ; auricular region deep red ; crown and hindneck with 

 indistinct streaks and spotting of greenish yellow, tipped obscurely 

 with dull red ; in some, feathers of foreneck and upper breast obscurely 

 edged with dull greenish orange, or greenish yellow, and the throat 

 bordered indefinitely with dull red ; primaries and secondaries with a 

 yellow central band, mainly on the inner webs of the secondaries, on 

 the primaries largely concealed by the green coverts ; tenth outermost 

 primary distally dull black, with a faint sheen of dull green on the 

 outer web ; seventh to ninth primaries dull black distally, with the 

 outer web blue along the shaft, bordered externally with green ; edge 

 of wing yellow in some, green in others; lesser under wing coverts 

 green; greater under wing coverts greenish yellow, tipped with dull 

 neutral gray ; under surface of remiges centrally greenish yellow to 

 yellow, dusky at tips ; under surface of tail reddish. 



A female taken near El Volcan on February 26, 1965, had the iris 

 pale grayish white ; bare skin around eye dull white ; bill and cere very 

 pale brownish white ; tarsus, toes, and claws dull brownish neutral 

 gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui), wing 130.7-140.1 

 (133.9), tail 95.2-136.8 (107.3), culmen from cere 16.2-18.0 (17.4), 

 tarsus 14.1-14.9 (14.4) mm. 



Females (10 from Chiriqui), wing 127.0-137.8 (130.7), tail 90.5- 

 113.0 (105.5), culmen from cere 16.3-17.3 (16.7), tarsus 14.1-14.5 

 (14.2) mm. 



Resident. Found in the Subtropical Zone in the mountains in west- 

 ern Chiriqui, and on the Caribbean slope in Bocas del Toro. 



