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In the region about the falls of Maipures and beyond, this was 

 a common species. Not noted, however, below the rapids. 



Amazon A inornata (Salvadori). 

 Chrysotis inornata Salvad., Cat. Birds Brit. Mtis. XX. 1891. p. 281. 

 Amasona inornata Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 



Native name Saramho. Not common and only observed in the 

 neighborhood of Munduapo on the upper river. 



The colors taken from fresh birds are : eye orange yellow, bare 

 skin around the eye pale greyish white; bill, above dusky slate along 

 ridge of culmen and for the apical one-third, angle at rictus and base 

 dusky wax yellow, below dusky yellowish grey, skin above the nostrils 

 black; feet plumbeous pea green. 



Berlepsch and Hartert record also specimens collected by Andre 

 at Nicare on the Caura River. 



Amazona ochrocEphala (Gmelin). 



Psittacns ochrocephaliis Gm. Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 339. 

 Amazoia ocliroccphala Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 



Common. Native name Loro Real. 



Iris orange chrome, with an inner ring of dark buft'; bill blackish, 

 horny white toward the base ; feet dusky slate color. 



This is the species most sought after as a cage bird (although 

 almost never caged) by the natives, and there is scarcely a house in 

 the country districts where one or more is not to be seen. Except 

 during the breeding season, parrots of this species associate in large 

 flocks (often two or three hundred birds together), which seem to be 

 made up of pairs of adult birds which keep close to one another, and of 

 immature birds not yet mated. The nesting season begins at the end 

 of March and continues to the end of May. 



Amazona bodini (Finsch;. 



Chrysotis bodini Finsch, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 569. PI. 49. 

 Amazona bodini Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 



Native name Tagua or Loro goro Colorado. During my first 

 expedition on the Orinoco I found this species abundant along the 

 middle stretches of the river, especially about Altagracia and Caicara. 

 None were seen on the two more recent trips. 



