332 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Pyrrhura picta picta Hellmayr Novit. Zool. XIV: 1907: 37 (Caura 



River). 



Not noted by the writer, but Klages collected specimens at 

 Suapure and at La Pricion that are recorded by Berlepsch and 

 Hartert and there is a fine series in the American Museum collection 

 from La Union, Caura River. 



PSITTACULA MODESTA MODESTA Cabanis. 

 Psittacula modesta Cab., in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 727, 1848 (Brit. 



Guiana). 

 Psittacula sclateri Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 108. 



Not noted on the Orinoco. Berlepsch and Hartert record a 

 specimen collected by Andre at La Union on the Caura River. 



PSITTACULA GUIANENSIS VIRIDISSIMA Lafresnaye. 

 Psittacula viridi-ssima Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. 1848. p. 172 (Caracas). 

 Psittacula guianensis Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. p. 108. 

 P. guianensis viridissima Hellmayr, Novit. Zool. XIV. 1907. p. 



88 (Orinoco points Altagracia, Ciudad Bolivar). 



Native name Espanolito. Common, usually associating in flocks of 

 from ten to forty or fifty birds. 



Eye dark raw umber; bill greyish white; feet whitish. 



A nest of this species was found at Quiribana de Caicara, April 

 26, 1898. It was at the bottom of a hollow in an old stump, about 

 four metres from the ground. The eggs were about 60 cm. down 

 from opening to the nest cavity. No nesting materials had been used 

 and the eggs rested on the bits of decayed wood at the bottom. The 

 nest had contained seven eggs but two had already hatched and all 

 were at the point of hatching. Both parent birds were seen, but flew 

 away and did not return near the nest until long after I had left the 

 nest tree. 



BROTOGERIS CHRYSOPTERUS (Linn.). 

 Psittacus chrysopterus Linn., Syst. Nat. I: 1766: p. 149. 



Two specimens from La Union, Caura River in American Museum 

 collection. 



BROTOGERIS DEVILLEI Salvadori. 



Brotogerys devillei Salvad., Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. XX. 1891. p. 259; 

 Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 



