33G BIEDS OF BEITTSH GUIANA. 



Ilah'its. Accordino; to Sehoml^nrgk (Eels. Gnian. iii. p. 723\ 

 the lial/its and mode o£ life of this species are ihe same as those 

 of Pionites melanocepliala, p. 339. 



Genus TOTJIT Gray. 



Touit Gray, Cat. Gen. & Suhgen. Birds, p. S9, 1S55. Type T. hueti 

 (Temm.). 



This fjenus is distinguished chiefly liy the long upper and under 

 tail-coverts, which reach to the tip of the tail. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Back and rump black ; under wing-coverts 



and axillarios blue T. hafavica, p. .336. 



B. Back green ; rump blue ; under wing-coverts 



and axillaries green T. purpurata, p. 337. 



C. Back and rump green ; under wing-coverts 



and axillaries bright red T. li ueti, p. 338. 



216. Touit batavica. 

 ScopoLi's Parrot. 



Psittaca hafavica Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49, 17.<^3 rVenezuela). 

 Uracil roma cinr/idata Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. ^Mus. xx. p». 3.31, 1S91 ; 



Lloyd, Timehri (2 ) ix. p. 272, 189-3 (Groete Creek). 

 Z'rocJiro//ia hatavica Brabourae & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 93, no. 881, 



1912. 



" Seven-coloured Parrakeet " (Lloyd). 



Adult male. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black ; 

 greater upper wing-coverts yellow with blue tips ; outer webs of 

 tertials yellow and green ; tail lilac with a subterminal black band 

 on the outer feathers ; forehead, lores, and chin yellow ; crown 

 of head, hinder face, throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale 

 green ; nape dull yellow with narrow dark edges to the feathers, 

 which gives a scaled appearance ; breast blue-green ; edge of 

 wing red: under wing-coverts dull blue. "Bill whitish yellow ; 

 feet pale; iris brown '' (Leaf and). 



Total length 1G5 mm., culmen 15, wing 118, tail 50, tarsus 12. 



The male described was collected on the Supenaam River. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male in the colour of the 



