404. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 97 
After careful comparison with 17 skins of the latter form in the col- 
lections of the National Museum and the Chicago Natural History 
Musuem, the only difference noted by Wetmore is a slightly lighter 
shade of the breast, sides, and abdomen, particularly in the green 
areas. Although with additional material this may be looked upon 
as sufficient to set off another form, it seems best, for the present at 
least, to use the name margaritensis for specimens from northeastern 
Venezuela as well as from Margarita Island. Peters (Check list of 
birds of the world, vol. 3, 1937, p. 190) has commented also on the 
resemblances between birds from the mainland and those of Mar 
garita Island. 
PYRRHURA MELANURA MELANURA (Spix): Black-tailed Parakeet 
Aratinga melanurus Sprx, Avium species novae ... Brasiliam ..., vol. 1, 
1824, p. 36, pl. 22 (Tabatinga, Rio SolimGes, Brazil). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. &, Brazil, Cachoeira Thomaz, Rio Cauabury, October 26, 1930. 
7 ad. #, 3 ad. 9, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 12-16, 1931. 
Two of the Sao Gabriel males, marked “‘adult’’ by the collectors, 
have none of the outer greater upper primary coverts red like all the 
others but have the whole wing area green except for the bluish outer 
webs of the primaries. In all other respects they agree perfectly 
with the rest of the series. 
This race occurs from the Upper Orinoco to the Rio Negro and to 
northwestern Amazonia, southwest to northeastern Peru, and to the 
Solimées River. 
Two additional examples from Sao Gabriel, January 13, 1931, 
were preserved in alcohol. 
FORPUS SCLATERI EIDOS Peters: Schomburgk’s Parrotlet 
Forpus sclateri eidos Perrrs, Check list of birds of the world, vol. 3, 1937, p. 
205 (new name for Psittacula modesta Cabanis, 1848; not Fraser, 1845; 
British Guiana). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. o', Brazil, Cachoeira Caranguejo, Rio Cauabury, October 25, 1930. 
lim. 2, Brazil, Sitio Conobany, Rio Cauabury, October 25, 1930. 
2 ad. o', Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below mouth of Rio Jé, November 3, 1930. 
1 ad. &, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 15, 1931. 
2 ad. o&, Colombia, bank of Rio Negro, January 29, 1931. 
The immature female has the forehead and front half or more of 
the crown very pale yellowish green in sharp contrast to the dark 
green of the occiput and back. 
This parrot occurs across the Upper Rio Negro and Upper Rio 
Orinoco to the Guianas in the northeast and to the Rio Madeira in 
the southwest. 
Another specimen, preserved in alcohol, was taken at Sao Gabriel, 
January 15, 1931. 
