AVES PSITTACID^. 719 



Order PSITTACIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Classif. Bds. p. 83 (1891); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. ii. p. i 

 (1900). 



Family Psittacid^. 



Salvad. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 137 (1891); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. 

 ii. p. 12 (1900). 



Subfamily Arin^. 



Salvad. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 145 (1891); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. 

 ii. p. 13 (1900). 



Genus CYANOLISEUS Bonaparte. 



Type. 



Cyanoliseus Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 150 . . . C. byroni. 

 Geographical Range. — Southern South America. 



Cyanoliseus patagonus (Vieillot). 



Psittacus patagonus Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 367 (181 7) 

 (based on Maracana patagona of Azara). (Coast of Patagonia.) 



Description. — Adult male, P. U. O.C., February, 1897, Chubut, Patagonia. 

 Total length, 17.2 inches; wing, 9.1 ; culmen, 1.2; tail, 9.00; tarsus, .85. 

 Above olive green tinged with brown, darker on the forehead ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts bright lemon chrome yellow, wings green tinged with 

 olive and brown, the remiges and primary coverts peacock blue, the pri- 

 maries black at the tip ; tail olive green becoming brown on the inner webs, 

 central pair of feathers olive green on both webs, tinged with blue on the 

 outer, especially near the tips ; under parts, breast and throat grayish 

 brown, with a cream-colored patch at each side connected by a narrow line 

 across the breast, sides of abdomen and under tail coverts chrome yellow, 

 the latter shaded with olive, center of abdomen scarlet, bill blackish horn 

 color, feet dull reddish brown, iris white. 



GeograpJiical Range. — Throughout Patagonia even on the open plains ; 

 Argentina and Uruguay, north to 27° south latitude. 



This parrot was observed by the naturalists of the Princeton Expedi- 

 tions, on the upper waters of the Rio Chico de Santa Cruz, where it was 

 not very numerous and only two skins were preserved and brought home. 

 The habits of the bird have been so well described by writers and travel- 



