igiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 95 



Genus PIONOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Pionopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., (2), 1854, P- 152 (Type PstUacus 

 pileatus Scopoli). 



*Pionopsitta pileata (Scopoli). Red-capped Parrot, 



PsiUacus pileatus Scopoli, Ann. Hist. Nat., I, 1769, p. 32 (no type locality = 



S. E. Brazil; designated by Braboume and Chubb). 

 PsiUacus maitaca Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 41, pi. XXIX, Fig. i, pi. 



XXX. 

 Pionopsittacus pileatus Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 340; 



Chubb, Ibis, 1910, p. 264 (Paraguay). 



Range: Southeast Brazil to Paraguay. 

 2: Brazil (Sao Paulo). 



Pionopsitta melanotis (Lafr.y Black-eared Parrot. 



Pionus melanotis Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1847, p. 67 (Bolivia). 

 Pionopsittacus melanotis Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 339. 



Range: Bolivia; Southwest Brazil? 



Genus HAPALOPSITTACA Ridgway. 



Hapalopsittaca Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., XXV, 1912, p. 100 (Type 

 Psittacus amazoninus Des Murs). 



Hapalopsittaca amazonina amazonina (Des Murs). Amazonian 

 Parrot. 



Psittacus amazoninus Des Murs, Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 207 (Bogota, Colombia): 



Id., Icon. Om., 1845, pi. 15. 

 Pionopsittacus amazoninus Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 



P- 342. 

 Range: Colombia (Venezuela?). 



*Hapalopsittaca amazonina theresae*' (Hellmayr). Theresae's 



Parrot. 



Pionopsitta amazonina theresae Hellmayr, Verh. Om. Gesell. in Bayern, XII, 

 1915, No. 3, p. 214 (El Escorial, Venezuela). 



Range : Venezuela. 



i: Venezuela (Capata). 



* No specimens seen by me and placed provisionally in this genus. 



^ H. a. theresae (Hellm.): Similar to H. a. amazonina (Des Murs) from the Bo- 

 gota region, but differs in the much darker dusky brownish-red color of the chin 

 spots (instead of clear vermilion) and the throat and breast intense reddish olive 

 brown (instead of olive yellowish green); auricular region darker olive; back darker 

 green; bill somewhat more slender. cfiWing, 155-160; tail, 89^^-90 mm. 



