on the Par rots. 461 



Salvad. ex Verr., but is easily distinguished from both 

 by the feathers of the throat and upper breast being pure 

 grey edged with whitish, with no tinge whatever of green or 

 bluish colour; moreover, the grey breast is sharply defined 

 from the green below, and there is no bluish tinge whatever 

 on the forehead. 



Pyrrhura picta (P. L. S. Mull.) ; Berl. & Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. ix. p. 108 (Orinoco Region) (1902). 



Pyrrhura hypoxantha Salvad. Boll. Mus. Tor. xiv. 

 no. 363, p. 1 (Matto Grosso) (1899); Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 17, n. 16 (1900); Salvad. Boll. Mus. Tor. xv. no. 378, 

 p. 12 (1900) ; id. Ibis, 1900, p. 671, pi. xiv.; Dub. Syn. Av. 

 p. 1053 (1903). 



Upper parts mostly green, crown brown, hind-neck tinged 

 with blue ; cheeks green, with the feathers edged with 

 yellowish ; hidden edges of the feathers of the rump yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts green, with the inner web yellow, tinged 

 with red ; throat and fore-neck whitish, the latter tinged 

 with pale rose-colour, gradually changing into the yellow 

 colour of the lower parts ; middle of the abdomen bright 

 red; the feathers of the breast, abdomen, and thighs edged 

 with green ; under tail-coverts blue, yellow at the base ; 

 wings green, primaries and their coverts blue, tips of the 

 quills blackish; outer web of the first quill white towards 

 the base ; under wing-coverts yellow ; carpal edge green ; 

 tail re I, inclining to rose-colour at the base ; bill and feet 

 dark grey; iris chestnut; naked space round the eyes 

 whitish. Total length about 280 mm., wing 135, tail 140, 

 culm en 19, tarsus 11. 



Hal). Matto Grosso, near Urucum. 



This species, one of the most beautiful of the genus, is 

 easily recognised by the yellow colour of the sides of the 

 body and thighs. Besides the two typical specimens, both 

 females, Dr. Borelli has obtained a third from a corre- 

 spondent ; this is now in the British Museum ; of the two 

 typical specimens, one is in the Zoologieal Museum of 



