FAMILY PSITTACIDAE 93 



In mannerisms and general appearance these birds suggest the com- 

 mon casanga. One taken March 3, 1952, at El Uracillo, northern 

 Code, on the Rio Indio, is intermediate toward the eastern race but 

 near the present form. Above El Volcan I recorded them at 1,800 

 meters, and near Santa Clara I found them ranging in the shade trees 

 above coffee. A female taken at El Uracillo was in company with a 

 female casanga, the two preening one another, and apparently using a 

 tree hollow in company. Near Puerto Armuelles I found them feeding 

 on figs in high forest, in company with other parrots and toucans. 



Those from western Panama do not differ from birds of Central 

 America, where this race ranges to southern Mexico. 



PIONOPSITTA HAEMOTOTIS COCCINICOLLARIS (Lawrence) 



Pionhis coccinicollaris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, 1862, 

 p. 475. (Lion Hill, Canal Zone, Panama.) 



Characters. — Feathers of lower foreneck and extreme upper breast 

 more or less bright red, less in amount in females, often a prominent 

 band in adult males. 



A male taken March 8, 1950, on Cerro Chucanti, Panama, had the 

 iris honey yellow ; cere wax yellow ; entire bill light brownish white, 

 washed faintly with yellow on the sides of the maxilla and mandible ; 

 tarsus and toes honey yellow ; claws light neutral gray. 



A female collected March 16, 1964, on the Rio Tacarcuna, Darien, 

 had a narrow inner ring in the iris of yellowish green, with an outer 

 ring of light orange ; bare skin around eye dull cream-yellow ; cere dull 

 orange ; basal half of mandible pale dull honey yellow ; the broad 

 gonys somewhat paler ; rest of bill dull white ; tarsus and toes dull 

 honey yellow ; claws pale dull brown, darker at the tip. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama), wing 137.8-152.5 

 (147.1), tail 61.1-68.0 (64.6), culmen from cere 18.2-21.4 (19.6), 

 tarsus 16.8-18.7 (17.6) mm. 



Females (8 from Panama), wing 144.9-150.2 (147.9), tail 58.7- 

 68.8 (64.8), culmen from cere 17.6-19.7 (18.6). tarsus 16.2-19.2 

 (17.8) mm. 



Resident. Found on the Caribbean slope from the Canal Zone 

 (Gatun; Lion Hill, formerly) east in San Bias to the Colombian 

 boundary (Perme; Puerto Obaldia) ; on the Pacific side from eastern 

 Panama Province (Cerro Azul; Puerto Antonio on the Rio Bayano ; 

 Cerro Chucanti) through Darien (to 900 meters on Cerro Sapo; Jesu- 

 cito; Jaque ; 1,600 meters on Cerro Pirre ; Boca de Paya ; 1,450 meters 

 on Cerro Tacarcuna ; La Laguna ; 575 meters on the Rio Tacarcuna). 



