on the Parrots. 1C3 



concoloribus ; cauda viridi ; rostri maxilla fusca, apice 



et tnandibula pallidis ; pedibus carneis. Long tot. circa 



5 - 4, alee 3 5, caudie 1*65. 

 " Frnnina. Mari similis, alis colore caeruleo hand ornatis, 



dorso imo quoque multo pallidiore. 



"flab. Vina,Huamachuco (5500 feet), N. Peru/' (Hartert.) 



The nearest ally of this species is P. crelestis, but it is much 



larger and has a larger bill ; the head and cheeks are much 



yellower, and there is hardly any blue behind the eye and 



at the back of the neck. 



Psittacula consficillata Lafr. ; Forb. & Robins. Bull. 

 Liverp. Mus. i. p. 13 (Bolanos, Mexico) (1897). 



The locality Bolanos (Mexico) must be a mistake, P. con- 

 spicillata being, apparently, confined to Colombia. 



Psittacula modesta Cab. ; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 18, 

 n. 5 (1900) ; Allen, Auk, xx. p. 213 (Guiana) (1903) * 



Psittacula sclateri G. R. Gr. ; Dub. Syn. Av. p. 15, 

 n. 189 (1899); Berl. & Hartert, Nov. Zool/ix. p. 108 (La 

 Union on the Cauca River, Venezuela) ; Allen, Auk, xx. 

 p. 213 (1903). 



Psittacula modesta sclateri Allen, 1. c. 



In the 'Catalogue of Birds' I mentioned Psittacula 

 modesta Cab., saying that I had not been able to identify it 

 with certainty, but I duly expressed the opinion of Salvin 

 and Graf von Berlepsch that P. modesta and P. sclateri were 

 probably one and the same species. Mr. Allen, while 

 agreeing " that the two forms are specifically the same/' 

 is inclined to recognise the Andean form (P. sclateri) as 

 s parable from the Guiana form. After having compared a 

 specimen from the Saramaca River, Dutch Guiana, with a 

 male of P. sclateri, labelled Rio Javarri, he says that "the 

 Guiana bird differs in being of a lighter, more yellowish- 

 green below, particularly on the breast, and in the rump 

 being of a brighter shade of ultramarine." 



These differences seem very small indeed. 



* "Note on Psittacula modesta Cabanis.'' 



