82 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



mann, a German naturalist who made extensive collections in Costa 

 Rica. 



BOLBORHYNCHUS LINEOLA LINEOLA (Cassin) : 

 Banded Parakeet; Perico Fajeado 



Figure 10 



Psittacula lineola Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 6, 1853, p. 372. 

 (Puente Nacional, Veracruz, Mexico.) 



A small green parakeet, with dark bars on back and sides, and black 

 on the bend of the wing. 



Description. — Length 150-165 mm. Adult (sexes alike), green 

 above, with the forehead somewhat yellowish green ; feathers on back 

 of crown, hindneck, back, rump, and upper tail coverts tipped lightly 

 with dull black to produce transverse bars ; lesser wing coverts black ; 

 middle and greater coverts with tips spotted boldly with black ; outer- 

 most primary black, edged narrowly with buff; rest of primaries and 

 primary coverts black, edged externally with green ; upper surface of 

 tail tipped with black ; under surface, including cheeks, yellowish green, 

 with the sides barred somewhat indistinctly with black; flanks more 

 heavily marked with black, and a few small black tips on under tail 

 coverts; under wing coverts green, spotted, and barred indistinctly 

 with black ; under surface of wing and tail bluish green. 



Labels on skins from Costa Rica list the iris as dark brown ; bill 

 dull flesh color to ivory, in some with the mandible somewhat darker ; 

 tarsus flesh color. 



Measurements. — Males (7 from Honduras, Costa Rica, and Chiri- 

 qui), wing 100.5-109.8 (104.3), tail 53.8-62.0 (58.5), culmen from 

 cere 11.6-13.5 (12.2), tarsus 11.5-13.8 (12.4) mm. 



Females (10 from Honduras, Costa Rica, and Chiriqui), wing 97.0- 

 107.6 (102.4), tail 52.0-59.6 (55.8), culmen from cere 11.8-12.6 

 (11.9), tarsus 11.5-13.4 (12.4) mm. 



Resident. Found in the Subtropical Zone on the Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 on both Pacific and Caribbean slopes. 



This is a forest species, local in occurrence, recorded to the present 

 only in small numbers. It was first reported in Panama from speci- 

 mens forwarded by Arce to Salvin, supposedly taken in the vicinity 

 of Boquete. The species was found next by W. W. Brown, Jr., who 

 sent 2 males taken June 12, 1901, at 600 meters elevation on the Carib- 

 bean slope of the volcano, to Outram Bangs (Proc. New England Zool. 

 Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 25). Monniche collected a pair at Lerida Decem- 

 ber 6 and 22, 1939, at 1,675 meters. Dr. Frank Hartman sent me a 



