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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



purpose of identification, should either species present itself, we give 

 diagnoses in the accompanying foot-note.^ 



Genus CONURUS, Kuhl. 



Conurus, Kuiil, Consp. Psittac. 4, 1830. — Ib. Nova Acta K. L. C. Acad. X, 1830. 



Gen. Char. Tail long, conical, and pointed ; bill stout ; cheeks feathered, but in some 

 species leaving a naked ring round the eye ; cere feathered to the base of the bill. 



The preceding diagnosis, though not very full, will serve to indicate the 

 essential characteristics of the genus among the Middle American forms 



Coiiiiriis carolinensis. 



with lono- pointed tails, the most prominent feature consisting in the densely 

 feathered, not naked, cheeks. But one species belongs to the United States, 



^ A. Tail lont^pr than the wings ; lores and cheeks naked ; the latter with narrow lines 



of small feathers. 



S. militaris. Green ; forehead red ; posterior portion of hack, upper and under 

 tail-coverts with quills and tip of tail, sky-blue ; under side of tail dirty orange- 

 yellow. Wing, 14.00 ; middle tail-feathers, 15.00 ; tarsus, 1.08. ffab. North- 

 western Mexico to Bolivia. 



Synonymy : PsiUacus militaris, Linn. S. N. 1767, 139. Sittace viilitaris, 

 FIN.SCH, Die Papageien, I, 1867, 396. 



B. Tail aliout equal to the wings ; lores and cheeks feathered. 



S. pachyrhyncha. Green; the forehead, edge of wings, and the tihise red;' 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow. Wing, 8.00 to 10.00 ; middle tail-feather, 6.50. 

 JIab. Southern Mexico (.Jalapa and Angangueo), given probably erroneously from 

 the Rio Grande of Texas. Synonymy: Macrocercus jnichyrhynchus, Sw. Syn. Birds 

 Mex. in Philos. Mag. T, 1827, 439, No. 79. Rhyncli02}sitta jyachyrhyncha, Bon. 

 Tableau des Perroquets, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 149. SitMcc pachyrhyncha, 

 FiNSCH, Die Pajjageien, I, 1867, 428. PsiUacus pascha, Waglek, Isis, 1831, 524. 

 PsiUacus strcnuus. Light. Preis-Verzeichiss, 1830. 



