320 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



the bird, in other respects, is strictly the same, I consider it as an 

 aberrant species, assuming the arched culmen of Coccoborus. 

 117- Sphecotheres canicoUis. 



Olive : chin, neck, and breast, cinereous ; crown and 

 ears, glossy black ; middle of the body, and half of the 

 outer tail feather, white. 



Inhabits Australia. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 10 inches; bill, gape, li; front -^j ; wings 6 ; 

 tail, beyond, li; base 4i ; tarsus f^. Lores and sides of the 

 head, naked ; no feathers between the bill and ears : bill strong 

 and black ; legs very pale. The crown and front is deep glossy 

 black, which extends to the ears, and then blends into a dark 

 uniform cinereous, which spreads over the neck, chin, and 

 throat ; blending unto the olive green on the breast and flanks : 

 the middle of the body, from the breast to the under tail covers, 

 is cream coloured white ; all the quill feathers are black, but 

 the greater have a narrow cinereous border, and the rest are 

 broadly margined with the olive green of the upper plumage. 

 The tail is olive brown, changing to cinereous upon the outer 

 feathers; but the last of all is white, excepting the basal half 

 of the inner web, which is deep black. In the female, or young 

 bird, the chin and middle of the throat and breast are varied 

 with white ; the crown is brown, and the white on the belly 

 more pure. The true S. viridish described in Linn. Tr. xv. 215., 

 and figured in the Atlas to Quoyand Gaimard, Voy. pi. 21. 



118. Ag APORN IS cyanopter us. 



Green : wings blue ; the ends of the primary quills, 

 the middle of the lesser covers, and the scapulars, green : 

 lower part of the back, rump, and inner wing covers, blue. 

 Female entirely green. Psittacus passerinus of Authors. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



Differs from the P. jmsserinus of Authors*, in having the 

 quills and all the inner wing covers blue. Total length 41 

 inches ; wings 3\, as long as the tail. 



119. Agapobnis Guianensis. 



Green : spurious quills and inner wing covers ame- 

 thystine blue: outer margin of the shoulders light green: 

 greater wing covers tinged with bluish. Female entirely 

 green. P. Capensis, Auct. PI. Enl. 4<55. f. I. 



The smallest parrot of Demerara, where it is found in large 

 flocks. Size of the last. 



120. CoNURus chrysophrys. 

 Green : circle round the orbits, and lower part of the 



* Founded on Edwards, pi. 235. 



