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Eye orange chrome : bill dusky ; feet slate grey. 



A great many parrots of this and the preceding species, both of 

 which congregate in great flocks, are killed for their flesh. Except 

 during the breeding season, they are very fat and make a most 

 acceptable addition to one's bill of fare. 



The status of this species prior to the series I secured in 1897 

 and 1898, was in doubt. 



AMAZONA AMAZONICA (Linnaeus). 

 Psittacus amazonicus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 147. 

 Amasona amasonica Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 



Native name Cotorra. Rare, one specimen taken at Quiribana de 

 Caicara in April, 1898. 



Eye orange yellow; maxilla blackish, mandible yellowish horn color 

 with dusky tip;. feet dusky olive plumbeous. 



PIONUS Fuscus (P. L. S. Miiller). 



Psittacus fuscus Mull., Syst. Nat. Supplement, 1776. p. 78. 

 Pionus fuscus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 



Not observed on the Orinoco. Berlepsch and Hartert record a 

 specimen that was collected by Klages in the "Mountains west of 

 Suapure" (Caura River). 



The American Museum contains a specimen from El Llagual 

 (Caura). 



PIONUS MENSTRUUS (Linnaeus). 



Psittacus menstruus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 148. 

 Pionus menstruus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 



Native name Catanito. Not uncommon. Observed only on the 

 upper river. 



Three young were taken on the I3th of March. The nest was a 

 hole in a tree, a natural cavity, about 6.10 m. from the ground. The 

 cavity was about 60 cm. deep, and no lining or nesting material of 

 any kind had been taken in. The oldest of the three young had the 

 body nearly as large as that of the parent, but almost naked. Judging 

 by the size of the three young, there must have been at least four or 

 five days between the hatching of the oldest and of the youngest. 



Adults in life have the eye seal brown, bare skin about eye bluish 



