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195. Aratinga solstitialis. 



Yellow Parrot. 



Psittacus solstitialis Linn. Syst. Xat. 12th ed. i. p. 141. 1766 (Cayenne). 

 Conurus solstitialis Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 72S. 1S4S ; 



Brown, Canoe and Camp Life. p. 312, 1S76 (Pacaraima Mts.) ; 



Salvin. Ibis, 1SS6, p. 67 ; W. L. "Scater. Ibi^, 1SS7, p. 817 (Pome- 



roon Piver ) : Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mns. xx. p. 17o, 1S91 (Quunga) ; 



Lloyd. Timebri (2) ix. p. 276. lS9o (Savannah countiy). 

 Aratinqa solstitialis Brabourae &. Chubb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 81, no. 750, 



1912. 



" Kissi-Kissi " {Brou-n ) ; - The Ki.ssie-Ki«ie " [C. A. Lloyd). 



Adult male. General colour above and below yellow, suffused 

 with red. more intensely on the sides of the face and abdumen ; 

 outer webs of the greater upper wing-coverts and quills green ; 

 secondaries only slightly edged with green on the outer webs ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, mostly blue 

 towards the tips, with more or less yellow on the feathers ; tail 

 blue on the apical portion with more or less green towards the 

 base, the middle feathers golden green. 



Total length 2i>b mm., culuien 22. wing 160, tail li."^. 

 tarsus 17. 



The male described is in the British Museum, and was collected 

 bv Whitelv at Quonga. British Guiana, on Xovember 15th, 1887 

 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 155 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



^est. In holes in trees {Schomlniruk) . 



KiiQS. Three or four in number ( .Schondiurpf:). 



Range in Bi'itish Guiana. Mahu Hiver, Pacaraima Mountains, 

 Mount Rorainia {ScJwmburyk) ; Pomeroou River ( If'./.. Sdater) ; 

 Quonga ( WJdttlii) ; Pacaraima Mountains {Brown). 



Extralitnital Range. North Brazil. 



Habits. Of this bird Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 728) that he first met with it in the districts of the Mahu River, 

 though he felt certain that it was only there because the fruit of 

 the malphighia trees was ripe. He found them more abundant 

 near the Pacaraima MounUiins and in liie vicinity of Rorainia 

 Mountain. It is the pet-bird of the natives ; lie often noticed 

 twentv to thirty s[)ecimens caged in one settlement, and thev 



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