COLE : AVES FROM YUCATAN. 125 



STRIGIDAE. 

 33. Strix pratincola Bonaparte. 



American Barn Owl. 

 Maya name, sots. 



This species is included in this list entirely upon the authority of Mr. 

 Thompson, who tells me that Barn Owls are sometimes found in the ruins. 



PSITTACIDAE. 



34. *Conurus aztec Souance. 



Aztec Paroquet. 



Maya name, qa-lt. Means "noisy bird." 



Three specimens : 



a. <J, Feb. 28, 1904. 



b. Chichen-Itza, 189- E. H. Thompson. 



c. 9 j San Ignacio, Feb. 9, 1904. 



Abundant. Seen especially mornings and evenings, flying over in small 

 flocks of two or three to several individuals. 



35- *Amazona albifrons nana W. DeW. Miller. 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1905, 21, p. 349. 



Yucatan White-fronted Parrot. 

 Maya name, tuut. 

 Three specimens : 



a. $, March 8, 1904. 



b. sex? (skinned from formalin), 1904. 



c. Chichen-Itza, 189-, E. H. Thompson. 



Small flocks were frequently seen, usually flying rapidly over at morning 

 or evening. The largest single flock observed was composed of 14 birds. 



Iris, light straw color. 



The craw of the male taken on March 8 was filled with the cotyledons of a 

 leguminous plant which Mr. Millspaugh determined as Cassia sp. The bird 

 apparently split the seeds and removed the outer coating before swallowing 

 the cotyledons. 



Waldron DeWitt Miller has recently renamed the Yucatan White-fronted 

 Parrot on the ground that it is smaller than the typical A. albifrons, with a 

 proportionately larger bill, and more yellowish green in color. My birds do 

 not altogether bear out Miller's conclusions, in fact, in measurements they 

 occupy an intermediate position, while the smallest birds I have examined, and 

 the only ones as small as those recorded from Yucatan by Miller, are two 

 specimens in the Bangs collection, from Guatemala. Another specimen taken 



