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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



Measurements. — Males (11 from Panama), wing 191-207 (201.1), 

 tail 94.1-109.0 (102.3); oilmen from cere 28.8-33.5 (31.6), tarsus 

 24.0-26.4 (25.2) mm. 



Females (3 from Panama), wing 184-202 (194.2), tail 92.0-108.6 

 (100.1), culmen from cere 28.5-32.9 (30.1), tarsus 23.4-26.1 (24.9) 

 mm. 



Resident. Found locally in the Tropical Zone, mainly on the Pacific 

 slope; Isla Parida; Isla Canal de Afuera; Isla San Jose; Isla Pedro 

 Gonzalez. 



Figure 12. — Yellow-headed parrot, loro real, Amasona ochrocephala panamensis. 



This, the least common of the three parrots of this genus, is absent 

 from considerable areas of the broad range outlined above. It seems 

 to prefer regions of gallery forest in the main, and does not penetrate 

 most of the more humid sections. 



In Chiriqui, Bangs (Auk, 1901, p. 359) listed a male taken Decem- 

 ber 3, 1900, at Divala. I saw several on Isla Canal de Afuera on 

 March 26, 1962, and in February of the following year found many 

 in the high forest of Isla Parida. At sunrise one morning one flock 

 of 20 or so left for the mainland, indication either that they crossed 

 to the island to roost, or to the mainland to feed. The only report 

 at present for Veraguas is of 1 taken by Arce at Chitra (now in the 



