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XOIlTir AMERICAN BIRDS. 



puilMjse of identification, should eitlier species present itself, we give 

 diagnoses in the accompanying loot-note.^ 



Genus CONURUS, Kuhl. 

 Con urns, Kuhl, Consp. Psittac, i, 1830. — In, Nova Acta K. L, C. Acad. X, 1830. 



Gkx, Cjiak. Tail long, conical, and pointed ; bill stout ; clieeks feathered, but in some 

 species leaving a naked ring round the eye ; cere feathered to the base of the bill. 



The preceding diagnosis, though not very full, will serve to indicate the 

 essential characteristics of the genus among the Middle American forms 



Coniirus rnrolitunsis. 



with long pointed tails, tlie most prominent feature consisting in the densely 

 feathered, not naked, cheeks. But one species belongs to the United States, 



^ A. Tail loiigor than the wings ; lores and checks naked ; the latter with narrow lines 



of sniall fi-athi-rs. 



S. militaris. Hn^en : fon-head red: posterior portion of back, upper and under 

 tail-covnts with <iuills and ti)> of tail, sky-blue ; under side of tail dirty orange- 

 yellow. Wing, 14.00 ; middle tail-feathers, 1.5.00 ; tarsus, 1.08. Hah. North- 

 western Mexico to Bolivia. 



Synonynty : P.-<iff/ii'iiM roilHnrlfi. LiNX. S. N. 17C7, 139. SUtace militaris, 

 J FiNscH, Die Papageien, I, 18r.7, 3iH). 



B* Tail alH)ut etpial to the wings ; lores and cheeks feathered. 



S. pachyrhyncha. (Irecn ; the forehead, edge of wings, and fhe tibiae red; 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow. Wing, S. 00 to 10.00 ; middle tail-feather, 6.50. 

 Ilfih, Southt'iii Mexico (Jala])a and Anjjangueo), given ])robahly erroneously from 

 the PiorJrande of Tt'xas. 8ynon^^ny : .Vnrrocr rcKS pttcIntrJiinichus, Sw. isyn. Birds 

 Mex. in Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 439, No. 79. Rhiinchnpsitta pach>/rJnucha, Box. 

 Tableau des Perroqufts, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 149. Sittacc pachi/rhyncha, 

 Fixsrn, Die Paj^igtien, I, 18(57, 428. I'siffacns piischa, Wagler, Isis, 1831, 524. 

 PsitUicus slrcHiiHs, Licirr. Preis-Verzeichlss, 1830. 



