RED-NECKLACED PARROT 



Sexes alike. Head and neck a beautiful gen- 

 tian blue, the feathers indistinctly tipped with 

 dusky and with a patch of black on the ear 

 coverts; remaining upper parts parrot green; 

 wings and middle tail feathers grass green, the 

 remaining tail feathers with the inner webs red, 

 the outer webs blue (bluish green terminally); 

 throat grayish white mixed with blue and with 

 a red patch at the base ; chest dull blue ; remain- 

 ing lower parts lighter parrot green, the under 

 tail coverts red. Iris brown. Bill lighter at 

 base and with a large red spot on the sides of 

 lower mandible. 



Young. Similar to adults but blue of head and 

 neck duller, usually with a red patch on sides of 

 forehead. 



A small parrot seen at Barro Colorado and 

 elsewhere about Gatun Lake. On one occasion 

 a flock of some size was observed. The com- 

 paratively short tail is noticeable in flight. 

 Jewel reports it from Agua Clara near the Rio 

 Trinidad, "A noisy species." 



8. Eucinetus haematotis coccinicollaris 



(Lawrence) 

 Red-necklaced Parrot 



Pyrilia hamatotis coccinicollaris RIDGWAY, Birds of 

 N. and M. Amer., VII, 1916, p. 206; STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 251. 



Length 214 mm. (8.40 in.); tail 67 mm. 

 (2.60 in.). 



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