iQiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory, 63 



Conurus aeruginosus Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 195, part. 

 Eupsittula pertinax aeruginosus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 



1916, p. 163, in key. 



Aratinga aeruginosus aeruginosus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 



1917, p. 257, crit. 



Eupsittula pertinax occidentalis Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 1915, 

 p. 81 (Rio Hacha, Colombia). 



Range: Colombia and northwestern Venezuela (east about to 

 Caracas and the province of Zamora and in the Rio Branco region in 

 extreme northern Brazil).^ 



15: Venezuela (Maracaibo i, Maracay 2, Encontrados, Zulia, 7, 

 Rio Aurare i); Brazil (Boa Vista, Rio Branco 4). 



*Eupsittula pertinax chrysophrys (Swainson). Guiana Brown- 

 throated Paroquet. 



Conurus chrysophrys Swainson in Anim. in Menag., pt. Ill, 1838, p. 320, 



No. 120 (Guiana). 

 Aratinga chrysophrys Cherrie, Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., II, No. 6, 1916, 



P- 331- 

 C[onurus] chrysophrys Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1915, p. 258, 

 in text, crit. 



Range: The Guianas and eastern Venezuela, from about Ctmiana 

 and Cinidad, Bolivar, eastward. 



3 : British Guiana i ; and Dutch Guiana i. 



*Eupsittula pertinax margaritensis subsp. nov}> Margaritan Brown- 

 throated Paroquet. 

 Range: Margarita Island (off Venezuela). 

 19: Margarita Island, including type specimen. 



*Eupsittula occularis (Sclater and Salvin). Veragua Paroquet. 



Conurus occularis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 367 

 (Lion Hill, Panama); Reichenow, Vogelbild, 1880, pi. 17, Fig. i; Salvadori, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 197. 



Eupsittula occularis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 167. 



Range: Panama and extreme northwestern Colombia? 

 2: Panama i; Colombia (PBoqueron) i. 



» Strange to say, all specimens I have seen (4 apparently adults) from the Rio 

 Branco region, N. Brazil, agree perfectly with birds from Rio Aurare and Maracay, 

 northwestern Venezuela (in yellow on face, being absent or confined to trace around 

 the eye, etc.). 



'' Eupsittula pertinax margaritensis subsp. nov. : Type from Margarita Island 

 (off Venezuela). Adult male, No. 39 151, Field Museum of Natural History. Col- 

 lected by J. H. Ferry, March i, 1909. Similar to E. p. chrysophrys (Swainson) 

 from Guiana in having the pronounced yellow markings on face and other characters, 

 but differs in having the throat and cheeks paler and the forehead more distinctly 

 and more extensively whitish. It approaches very closely to E. p. chrysophrys, but in 

 15 out of 19 specimens from Margarita Island these differences appear to be constant. 



