?);]^ BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



The birds from ^vllicll the descriptions are taken were collected 

 on the Mazarnni River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in Britisli Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in Britisli (xiiiana. 



Eggs. Undescrihed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Itaribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartici, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Mazaruni River 

 (McConnell collection); Kuamuka (^Scliomlmrgk); Kamarang River, 

 Mount Roraima (Whitelg). 



Extralimital Range. North-eastern Brazil. 



Habits. Regarding this bird Schombnrgk states (Reis. Guian. 

 iii. p. 723) that this beautiful Parrot, in the narrativeot the journev, 

 was wrongly named P. madagascariensis {cfr. vol. ii. p. 421j: it 

 was labelled M. at that time in the Berlin Museum. Accordino- 

 to the Indians it is found at certain times in the vicinity of 

 Kuamuka. 



218. Touit hueti. 



Huet's Parrot. 



Psittacus lineti Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. 491, 1830 (Peru). 



Urochroma hueti Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 3oo, 1891 (British 

 Guiana?); Lloyd, Timehri (2) ix. p. 278, 1895 (Berbice) ; Bra- 

 bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 93, no. 885, 1912. 



Adult male. Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts o-rass- 

 green like the scapulars, innermost upper wing-coverts, and outer 

 edges o£ inner secondary-quills ; outer upper wing-coverts dull 

 purplish blue; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black with a 

 slight tinge of blue; primary-quills blackish with the outer edo-es 

 green ; tail crimson red, or violet purple, with a subterminal black 

 bar and green tips to the feathers ; crown of head, hind-neck, sides 

 of neck, and mantle pale bronze-green; base of forehead blackish; 

 feathers over the eye, cheeks, and throat green; feathers in front 

 of the eye pale blue like the thighs; fore-neck, breast, abdomen, 

 and short under tail-coverts yellowish green, the long outer tail- 

 coverts yellow ; carpal-patch, under wing-coverts, and axillaries 

 bright scarlet. 



Total length 170 mm., culmen 14, wing 48, tail 42, tarsus 11. 



Adult jtinale. Differs from the adult male in havino- the tail 

 green, with a black subterminal bar to some of the feathers and 

 yellow webs to the lateral ones ; the top of the head is in- 

 clining to ochrcous-brown, in the bird described. 



