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constantly on the look out for it in likely places. Mr. Rich- 
mond has separated it from S. cunicularia, and considers 
it paler and very much smaller. 
My bird has the wing 5:65 inches; tail 2°40; tarsus 1°65 ; 
culmen °55. Iris yellow. 
CoNURUS ZRUGINOSUS. 
Conurus eruginosus Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 195 
(1891); Robinson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 664 (1895) ; 
Clark, Auk, xix. p. 261 (1902). 
a,b, 6s 6a) e, 2. Jana 6) 19048 | REB: Sa) 
fg. dad. March 20, 1906. [P. R. L.] 
This is a common bird in Margarita. It frequents the 
low-lying coast-belt as well as the hills. Large flocks used 
to fly over regularly in the evening from the tall mangrove- 
trees lining the large lagoon at the west end of the island, 
making their way towards the foot-hills, where apparently 
they roosted. The bird differs in no way from the form 
found on the mainland. 
AMAZONA OCHROPTERA. 
Amazona ochroptera Sharpe, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 21 (1900). 
Chrysotis ochroptera Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. 
288 (1891). 
a,b. ad. Jan. 6, 1904. [R. B.S.] 
¢, d. g ad. March 19, 1906: [PR 1. ] 
I saw some of these Parrots in the high trees above 
El Valle, where Capt. Robinson observed the species in 
large flocks, but there were also several parties round the 
lagoon at the west end of the island. I notice that 
Mr. Richmond refers the Amazons of Margarita Island 
to A. amazonica, but to me they seem to be quite distinct 
from that species, agreeing entirely with A. ochroptera. It 
is to be noticed that we found two specimens with green 
on the cheeks and sides of the face as in C. rothschildi 
(cf. Hartert, ‘Ibis,’ 1893, p. 328, pl. ix.). 
In the case of the Margarita bird I should say that the 
green on the face is indicative of a younger age, and that it 
is the very old birds which get the sides of the face, as well 
as the crown and throat, yellow. 
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