FAMILY PSITTACIDAE 99 



blue markings much restricted or absent, and olive tipping on wing 

 coverts slight ; wings and tail as in adult. 



A male, taken near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, February 9, 1966, 

 had the iris light mouse brown ; bare space around eye light dull red- 

 dish orange ; culmen and adjacent side of maxilla light dull greenish 

 gray; lower side of maxilla and mandible dull yellowish white ; tarsus 

 and toes pale orange ; claws neutral gray at base and on sides, shading 

 to dusky neutral gray on top and at tip. A female companion collected 

 with the male was similar. 



Another female taken near Palo Santo, Chiriqui, February 28, 

 1965, had the iris reddish brown ; thickened rim of eyelid dull dark 

 brown ; space around eye dull pinkish brown ; cere buffy brown ; bill 

 light greenish yellow, paler on tip of maxilla; tarsus and toes dull 

 orange-brown ; claws fuscous-black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Costa Rica and Chiriqui), wing 

 168-177 (172.2), tail 66.8-75.6 (71.1), culmen from cere 23.9-25.7 

 (24.4), tarsus 19.0-20.2 (19.6) mm. 



Females (9 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chiriqui), wing 163- 

 174 (169.3), tail 66.6-72.2 (69.7), culmen from cere 21.0-23.6 (22.9), 

 tail 18.8-19.7 (19.2) mm. 



Resident. Rare, from the Tropical to the lower Subtropical Zone 

 in western Chiriqui ; and in the Tropical Zone in western Bocas del 

 Toro. 



On the western slope of the volcano in Chiriqui I have found these 

 parrots in small numbers from the southern side of Cerro Pando west 

 toward the Costa Rican boundary to Santa Clara, at elevations rang- 

 ing from 1,100 to 1,800 meters. On several occasions there I saw 

 single birds in forest areas, or in tall, dead trees in open pastures. 

 I took specimens at Santa Clara, March 18 and 20, 1954, and have 

 seen others collected by Dr. Frank A. Hartman from above Palo 

 Santo on February 26, 1949, February 11, 1953, and February 29, 

 1956, the last mentioned being now in the U.S. National Museum. 

 In 1965 I collected a female at this point on February 28, and noted 

 others during March. West of Puerto Armuelles in February and 

 March 1966, I found several pairs along the hills on the Costa Rican 

 boundary. On Almirante Bay, at John Crow Point, I had a clear 

 view of a flock of 5 white-crowned parrots on February 7, 1958, as 

 they flew past with the white on the f orecrown showing clearly. 



Griscom (Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 293, 1928, p. 1), in an account 

 of the collection from Bocas del Toro made by Benson, includes this 

 species as the first record for Panama, but gives no further data. 



