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furnished by the man on whose plantation they were shot." The 

 fate which has befallen this and other West Indian parrots bids fair 

 to overtake additional species of this family. 



75. Aratinga euops (Wagler). Cuban Paroquet. 



Conurus guianensis (not Psittacus giiianensis Gmelin) Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. 

 Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, ^rfe Giindlach). 



Conurus euops Gundlach, Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 126 (I. of Pines). — CoRY, 

 Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, loi (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — Gundlach, Orn, 

 Cubana, 1893, 152 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 

 200 (I. of Pines). — Clark, Auk, XXII, 1905, 310 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 



Gundlach, writing some twenty years ago, says that the Cuban 

 Paroquet was formerly very abundant in the Isle of Pines, but at the 

 rate it was being taken for the cage-bird traffic it would be merely a 

 question of a few years more before it would be entirely exterminated. 

 Hundreds of young birds were being exported every year, it seems. 

 This prediction has been fulfilled, for neither Mr. Zappey nor Mr. Link 

 met with the species during their respective visits to the island, nor 

 did they even hear any reports of its occurrence. The outcome in 

 this case will inevitably be that of other species in this family also, 

 unless the traffic in living birds can in some way be stopped. 



76. Amazona leucocephala palmarum subsp. nov. Isle of Pines 

 Parrot. 



Psittacus leucocephalus (not of Linnaeus) Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 



(Nuev-a Gerona, fide Gundlach). 

 Chrysotis leucocephalus Gundlach, Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876, 124 (I. of Pines?). — 



Gundlach, Auk, VIII, 1891, 189, in text (I. of Pines; plumage). — Gundlach, 



Orn. Cubana, 1893, 149 (I. of Pines). 

 Amazona leucocephala Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 201 (Pasadita 



and El Hospital; nesting). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 11 (I. of Pines). — 



Read, Bird-Lore, XV, 1913, 45, and XVI, 1914, 50 (Santa Barbara). 

 "Green Parrot" Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines). 

 "Cuban Green Parrot" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). 



— Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 127 (Santa Barbara), 168 (Los Indios). 

 "Cuban Parrot" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 5 (Nuevas River); XXVIII, 



1911, 5 (McKinley; nesting), 6, 10 (Nuevas River), 113 (West McKinley); 



XXX, 1913, 123 (McKinley and Nuevas River), 125, 129, pi. (.Santa Barbara; 



nesting), 130 (I. of Pines). 



Twenty-four specimens: Bibijagua and Los Indios. 

 Type, No. 39,630, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult female; Los 

 Indios, Isle of Pines, October 9, 1912; Gustav A. Link. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Amazona leucocephala leucocephala 



