CATALOGUE OF PSITTACI. r 15 
caica (Zath.). Three. Cayenne. 
No. 3 is a xanthotic variety. 
barrabandi (Kuhl). Two. Brazil (Rio Negro). 
GYPOPSITTACUS, Bp. 
vulturinus (J//.). 
UROCHROMA, Bp. 
 cingulata (Scop.). Three. 
wiedi, Allen. Two. Brazil (near Rio Janeiro). 
purpurata (Gm.). Four. Brazil. Cayenne. 
surda (Jil.). Three. Brazil (Bahia; near Rio Janeiro). 
poet (Temm.); dilectissima, Sclat. & Salvin. ; stictoptera, Scat. ; emme, 
erlp. 
CAICA, Bp. 
melanocephala (Zinn.). Five. 
pallida, Zerlp.; xanthomera, G.R.Gr. 
leucogaster (Jll.). One. 3. 
PCOCEPHALUS, Sw. 
T robustus (Gm.). Six. 33, 2. S. Africa (Natal, Burg Mt.). April. 
No. 5, Type of Levaillant’s Parrot, Lath., Gen. Hist., ii. p. 212 (1822). 
T rubricapillus, sp.nov. Two. g. West Africa. (Whitfield, C.) 
A specimen from the above locality, (No. 809 Lord Derby’s Coll.), which died in con- 
finement at Knowsley in 1867, we find it impossible to assign to any described species 
known to us. It is near to P. fuscicollis and belongs to the section, in Salvadori’s 
key of the genus, in which the general colour is green, with the bend of the wing, 
metacarpal edge, and thighs without red colour, and with breast and abdomen green. 
But the head is neither brown nor yellow. Instead, the whole head, and the neck 
down to the shoulders, are silvery grey, or silvery brown, each feather broadly tipped 
with brick red, deeper on the top of the head and hind neck; less bright on the 
sides of the head, throat and chest. On the latter the silvery part of the feathers is 
more prominent, and ultimately merges into a pale, greyish-brown chest-band, 
sharply defined from the green. Ear coverts silvery grey, with red shaft stripes ; 
interscapular region dark brown with broad green margins ; upper and smaller wing 
coverts dark brown tipped with green. Lower back, bright green; rump and under 
surface, green washed with blue ; the concealed parts of the flank feathers pale reddish 
orange. Quills black; secondaries narrowly margined with green on outer web. 
Upper mandible, large and conspicuously hooked, 1°6 inch, measured from tip to cere 
with callipers ; lower, large, 1*1 inch in greatest breadth. Length, 9°6; wing, °68 ; 
tarsus, +1 inch. 
The colour changes and variability of parrots in confinement are well known ; and if 
ours had been a solitary specimen, we should have entered it as P. fuscicollis, Var. 
We have, however, two specimens identical in every respect, a precise similarity not 
likely to oceur in both specimens, if abnormal. 
fuscicollis (Kuhl), an Var. One. 2. South Africa. 
Sinciput and crown of head brick red, with no tinge of yellow ; the red sharply defined 
from the occiput and hind neck, which, with the shoulders and sides of head, are 
greyish brown washed with faint red, and having dark shaft stripes; lower fore neck 
and chest brown, with faint greenish sheen, the shaft stripes conspicuous; rest of 
under surface yellowish green; the concealed parts of the flank feathers reddish 
orange ; bend of wing. metacarpal edge, and thighs dark orange-red ; angle of wings 
nearly scarlet ; interseapular region, and upper wing coverts olive brown, graduating 
into olive green, the margins of the wing coverts washed with blue; ramp washed with 
blue. Quills brown ; secondaries olive green on outer webs; mandible from tip to 
cere measured with callipers 1°5; length, 10°6; wing 8 inches ; tarsus, 1 ineh. 
gulielmi (Jard.). One. Juv. 
aubryanus, Souancé; massaicus, Fisch. & Rehnw. 
fuscicapillus (Verr. ¢ Des Murs). Four. 23, ?. East Africa (Orange 
Free State; Nyassaland). Three specimens, July. 
crassus (Sharpe); flavifrons (Réppell); citrinocapillus, Hevgl. 
