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Pyrrhura melanura melanura (Spix.). Black-tailed Paroquet. 



Aratinga melanurus Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 36, pi. XXII, Figs. 1-2 (Amazon 



River region). 

 Pyrrhura melanura Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 222. 



Range: Northern Brazil and eastern Peru. 



Pyrrhura melanura pacifica" Chapman. Chapman's Black-tailed 

 Paroquet. 

 Pyrrhura melanura pacifica Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXIV, 1915, 

 p. 382 (Buena Vista, Narino, S. W. Colombia); Id., Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 XXXVI, 19 1 7. P- 259. 

 Range: S. W. Colombia. 



Pyrrhura souancei ( Verr.). Souance's Paroquet. 



Microsittace souancei (Verreaux), Rev. at Mag. de Zool., 1858, p. 437, pi. 12 



(Rio Napo). 

 Pyrrhura souancei Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 223; Chapman, 



Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 259 (provisionally referred to this 



species). 



Range: Ecuador and eastern Peru; Colombia? 



Pjnrhura berlepschi Salvadori. Berlepsch's Paroquet. 



Pyrrhura berlepschi Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 224, pi. II, 

 Fig. i; Berlepsch, Jour, fur Omith., 1889, p. 316 (Chjrvatas, Peru). 



Range: Eastern Peru. 



*Pyrrhura rupicola (Tschudi). Rock Paroquet. 



Conurus rupicolor Tschudi, Arch, fur Naturg., 1844, p. 304 (Peru); Id., Faun. 



Peru, I, 1884, p. 272, pi. XXVI, Fig. i. 

 Pyrrhura rupicolor Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 224, pi. 2, 



Fig. 2. 



Range: Peru. 

 i: "Peru". 



Pjmrhura albipectus*' Chapman. White-throated Paroquet. 



Pyrrhura albipectus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXIII, 1914, p. 319 

 (Zamora, Province Loja, Ecuador).. 



Range: Ecuador. 



• P. nt. pacifica Chapman: "Similar to P. m. melanura (Spix), but smaller, the 

 tail relatively muc!! shorter; primary coverts not tipped with yellow; tail above 

 redder; forehead greener; bare orbital region blackish (instead of whitish, in dried 

 skins); bill less stout; mandible blacker." (Chapman, 1. c). 



^ P. albipectus Chapman: "Differing from any known species of Pyrrhura in 

 having the throat and breast buffy white, without or with, but slight indication (in 

 immature specimens only?) of terminal bars, and in other characters." (Chapman, 

 1. c). 



