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lighter, and there is less blue on the neck than in P. corallinus. Again, the 

 basal part of the upper mandible in P. sordidus is black, passing into 

 yellowish towards the cutting-edges, only the tip of it and the lower 

 mandible being red ; in P. corallinus the whole of the bill is of a bright 

 coral-red, which renders Prince Buonaparte's name for the species very 

 appropriate. 



Besides my skin of P. sordidus, I have examined another similar 

 specimen from Venezuela in Mr. Spence's collection; and in 1873 there were 

 two living examples of the same bird in the Zoological Society's Parrot- 

 House*. I am therefore pretty confident that I am correct in discriminating 

 this species from P. corallinus. 



Of this last-named bird (through Mr. Rowley's kindness) I am now 

 enabled to give a good figure, of the size of life, taken from a specimen in 

 my collection obtained at Babahoyo, in Ecuador, by Fraser. 



The true P. sordidus is sufficiently accurately figured by Edwards 

 ('Birds,' iv. tab. 167). 



As a companion figure to P. corallinus I am enabled to give, by our 

 Editor's courtesy, a representation of another imperfectly known species of 

 this group of Parrots. P. tumultuosus, originally described by Tschudi, in 

 his ' Fauna Peruana,' from examples obtained in the w^ood-region of Peru, 

 was referred by Bonaparte and G. R. Gray to Chrysotis. After an 

 examination of the typical specimen in the Museum of Neufchatel, I was 

 enabled to assure Di-. Finsch that this determination was incorrect, and that 

 Tschudi's bird was undoubtedly a species of Pionus. It was accordingly so 

 arranged by Dr. Finsch, who had never himself met with an example of it. 



* See List of Animals in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (6th edition), 

 p. 259. 



