94 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



The notes of this bird are high-pitched, and differ thus from the 

 casanga. I have found them resting quietly in forest and calling softly. 

 At times they feed in the same trees as the larger Amazon parrots. 

 Near Jaque, where we found them in swampy forests, they were called 

 pericote, possibly in reference to their small size, as small jungle rats 

 are called by the same name. The inclusion of Cerro Azul in the 

 range is from a record of several seen on the lower slopes by Eugene 

 Eisenmann June 30, 1952. 



This race continues beyond the Isthmus in northwestern Colombia. 



PIONOPSITTA PYRILIA (Bonaparte): Saffron-headed Parrot; 

 Perico Cabeci-amarillo 



Psittacula pyrilia Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 37, 1853, p. 807. 

 (Sierra Negra, above Fonseca, Guajira, Colombia.) 



With the size and body color of the red-eared parrot, Pionopsitta 

 haematotis, but with head orange-yellow, bend of wing red, and inner 

 webs of central tail feathers yellow. 



Description. — Length 210 to 220 mm. Adult (sexes alike), entire 

 head and neck (except base) and upper lesser wing coverts bright 

 orange-yellow (with many of the feathers bright red basally) ; lower 

 hindneck, back, rump, tertials, inner secondaries, and upper tail coverts 

 bright green ; outer middle and greater wing coverts, and outer second- 

 aries blue, the secondaries and inner coverts edged with green ; pri- 

 maries dull black ; exposed webs of rectrices green, inner webs largely 

 yellow, tips blue; lower foreneck, and upper breast dull greenish 

 yellow ; lower breast and abdomen bluish green ; sides greener ; flanks 

 somewhat yellowish ; under wing coverts, axillars, and edge of wing 

 bright red; inner webs of under surface of primaries green. 



Immature, crown and hindneck dull green ; greenish orange of upper 

 breast extended over sides of neck and throat; bases of auricular 

 feathers dull red ; otherwise like adult. 



In museum skins the bill is horn color, and the tarsi and feet dull 

 black. The cere, loral area, circle around the eye, and a narrow line 

 along the base of the mandible and chin are bare except for scattered 

 feather filaments. The bare area is colored dull black. 



Measurements. — Males (16 from northwestern Colombia), wing 

 136.8-148.8 (143.3), tail 61.2-71.5 (65.7), culmen from cere 16.3-18.2 

 (17.5), tarsus 15.2-16.7 (15.9, average of 15) mm. 



Females (8 from northwestern Colombia), wing 134.8-144.6 

 (140.8), tail 62.2-68.8 (64.5) culmen from cere 16.3-18.1 (17.3), tar- 

 sus 15.8-17.6 (16.7) mm. 



