FAMILY TSITTACIDAE 105 



grayish white ; base of maxilla below nostril pale dull neutral gray ; 

 cere slaty black ; rest of maxilla dull grayish brown ; broad line of 

 culmen dull buffy brown ; side of maxilla and mandible dull neutral 

 gray; top of tarsus and toes dull brownish neutral gray ; under side of 

 tarsus dull yellowish gray; claws fuscous, grayer at base. 



Measurements. — Males (9 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chiri- 

 qui), wing 220-241 (229.5), tail 114-133 (122.9), culmen from cere 

 33.8-37.7 (35.7), tarsus 26.0-30.6 (28.4) mm. 



Females (8 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Bocas del Toro), 

 wing 221-237 (225.4), tail 114.0-129.5 (123.7), culmen from cere 

 32.2-37.4 (34.6), tarsus 26.9-29.8 (28.1) mm. 



Resident. Found in the lowland forests of western Chiriqui 

 (Puerto Armuelles, Bugaba, Divala) and of western Bocas del Toro 

 (Almirante). 



In forest west of Puerto Armuelles, when figs were ripening I 

 found these parrots several times during February 1966. I have 

 assumed also that this was the form I saw in March 1960, near the 

 Canta Gallo bridge on the Rio Escarrea below Alanje. There are 

 no present records for this race east of this locality on the Pacific 

 slope. 



In Bocas del Toro mealy parrots range in the forests near Almi- 

 rante, where they were taken first by H. von Wedel. In 1958 I 

 found them common locally in the swampy lowland at Pondsock 

 Point where I secured specimens. Others were seen along the Que- 

 brada Nigua. 



Schonwetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 9, 1964, p. 522) records size in 

 3 eggs as 37.4-38.0 X 28.4-29.4 mm. 



This form is mainly one of the Caribbean slope in Nicaragua and 

 Costa Rica, that has its eastern limit in extreme western Panama. 



AMAZONA FARINOSA INORNATA (Salvadori) 



Chrysotis inornata Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 20, December 1891, 

 pp. 269 (in key), 281. (Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Darker green, especially on the forehead and lower 

 surface; hindneck darker blue; carpal edge of wing partly or en- 

 tirely red; slightly larger in average size. 



An adult female, taken March 13, 1964, on the Rio Tacarcuna, 

 Darien, had the iris orange-red; cere dull black; thickened edge of 

 eyelids dull brownish black ; bare area around eye creamy white ; spot 

 in center of side of maxilla near base honey yellow ; rest of maxilla 

 and entire cutting edge of mandible dull neutral gray; rest of man- 



