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being less worn; the lower tibial feathers are pinkish; some of the 

 scapulars are orange scarlet; and there are rather more reddish feath- 

 ers on the under surface. These scattering feathers are undoubtedly 

 merely an individual character, as in numerous other species of this 

 family. 



The discovery of a new and very distinct species of Pyrrhura in the 

 Santa Marta region, to which so far as known it is confined, is of more 

 than passing interest. Apparently it has no very near relatives, al- 

 though it approaches, or rather resembles, several other species in dif- 

 ferent respects. In the brilliancy of the under wing-coverts it is like 

 P. cgrcgia of British Guiana, but there is no trace of barring on the 

 under surface — not as much even as in P. hoffmamii, from which it 

 differs conspicuously in its plain pileum, darker auricular patch, dif- 

 ferently colored wing-coverts, etc. From P. hcrmatotis and P. rliodo- 

 ccphala it is still more different. 



The male was shot July 2j, 191 1, the female July 19, 1913, both 

 being secured on the Cerro Quemado peak of the San Lorenzo Moun- 

 tain, between 7,000 and 8,000 feet, in the Subtropical Zone. Others 

 were seen here also, but always on the wing, and no more could be se- 

 cured. It was seen also in the forest on the mountainside, east of 

 Taquina, at the foot of the Paramo de Mamarongo, but always flying 

 out of gunshot. No doubt it is confined to the Santa Marta region. 



Since the above was written the junior author has succeeded in ob- 

 taining a third specimen, a female, on the crest of the San Lorenzo, in 

 November, 1920. A flock of perhaps sixteen birds were present here, 

 but all very wild. 



132. Eupsittula pertinax aeruginosa (Linnaeus). 



Conurus crruginosus Wyatt, Ibis, 1 87 1 , 381 (Cienaga). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. London, 1871, 493 (Cienaga; crit.). 

 Aratinga crruginosa occidentalis Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, 



191 5, 81 (Rio Hacha ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinar 

 Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, III, 191 5, 88 (ref. orig. descr.). 

 — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, 258, note (crit.). 



Eupsittula pertinax occidentalis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 



1916, 503 (ref. orig. descr.; crit.). 



Aratinga crruginosa crruginosa Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., XXXVI, 



1917, 257 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 



Eighteen specimens : Rio Hacba and Dibulla. 



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