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locality as given above may be accepted. The locality of Cumand, 

 Venezuela, suggested by Berlepsch and Hartert^" is incorrect, since 

 the color of the bird of eastern Venezuela does not agree with Edwards' 

 plate, according to Peters' statement. 



ABATINGA HAEMORRHOUS NEOXENA (Cory) 



Conurus neoxenus Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., orn. ser., vol. 1, 1909, p. 243 

 (Boca del Rio, Margarita Island, Venezuela). 



Near El Sombrero these birds were common in paii-s and little 

 flocks from November 14 to 19. A male was taken on the first date 

 mentioned. 



I agree with Peters ^^ that the genus Aratinga includes the group 

 segregated by Ridgway as Thedocercus, though the slender, acuminate 

 tip of the bill of the latter is sufiicient to separate it as a subgenus. 

 Another character assigned by Ridgway to Thedocercus, that of lack 

 of feathering behind the nostrils, does not hold, as this condition is 

 found also in related species. 



While Aratinga acuticaudata is closely allied to haemorrhous, the 

 definite blue color of the sides of the head seems sufficient to set it oflf 

 specifically, at least until intergradation can be proved. The skin 

 from El Sombrero is definitely darker green than one from Paranahyba, 

 Brazil, and so bears out the characters given by Cory to liis race 

 neoxena. 



ARATINGA WAGLERI TRANSILIS Petere 



Aratinga waglcritransilis Peters, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 9, June 24^ 

 1927, p. Ill (Cuchivano, northeastern Venezuela). 



Wliile Peters has listed this distinct form, separated from A. w. 

 wagleri by dark color and slightly smaller size, only from the Paria 

 Peninsula, it ranges westward as far as San Esteban, near Puerto 

 Cabello. A male in the National Museum from the latter locality 

 measm-es as follows: Wing 173, tail 144, culmen from cere 25.1, 

 tarsus 15.7 mm. This bird is definitely darker than several from 

 Palomina, in the Santa Marta region of Colombia. Two males that 

 I secured at Rancho Grande at 3,400 feet in the Cordillera de la Costa 

 on November 3 .ire very dark and measure as follows: Wing 173.5, 

 175; tail 136, 140; culmen from cere 25.7, 26.2; tarsus 17.9, 17.9 mm. 



Near Rancho Grande I found these parakeets so numerous from 

 November 3 to 10 that I heard their calls constantly through the 

 day both from birds at rest in the woodlands and from little flocks 

 passing in flight overhead, their notes being the usual raucous screech 

 common to species of this group. In flock formation on the wmg 

 they were always grouped in pairs. The two taken were shot from 



'» Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, p. 107. 



» Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 3, 1937, p. 185. 



