A NEW MOUNTAIN PARRAKEET 

 About one half natural siz^ 



Fuertes' Parrakeet, Ilapalopsittaca fuertesi (Chapman), a new species collected by one of the 

 Chapman Expeditions at 10,340 feet elevation, near Quindio Pass, Cauca, Colombia. 



Of the r28ospe:ies, 61 families, des ribed in Chapman's Dinlribution of Bird-Life in Colombia, 

 all were coUec'ted by the Chapman Expeditions. These 1285 species of birds, with the exception of 

 4o North American migrants, are permanent residents of Colombia. Of this family of macaws, 

 parrots, and parrakeets (Psittacida;), there were 31 species collected, most of them living in low 

 altitudes; 22 spe:-ies in the Tropical Zone, 6 in the Subtropical, 2 including the new species in the 

 Temperate, and none on the Paramo. 



The new parrakeet (there were 7 specimens taken) was named in honor of the artist, Mr. Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes. The lower figure shows the plumage of the immature bird 



