TOriT. PIONITES. ?)od 



This species is not represented in the IMcConnell collection, and 

 the birds described are in the Bi-itish Museum. The male -was 

 collected at Sarayacu, Ecuador, by C. Buckley — Salvin-Godman 

 collection, and the female at Cljamicuros, E. Peru — Gould 

 collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Berbice (C A. Lloyd). 



Extralimital Range. Eastern Peru, Eastern Ecuador, ?Yene- 

 zuela, ? Trinidad. 



Habits. Mr. C. A. Lloyd, writing on some Guiana Parrots, 

 remarks (Timehri (2) ix. p. 2715) : — "The two other species of 

 Urocliroma are not so beautifully attired, U. hneti being- green 

 marked with l)lae on the forehead and cheeks, and havinii the 

 axillaries scarlet. The tiny Love-birds are too well known to need 

 description. They are among the smallest representatives of the 

 Parrot tribe, and though rather noisy they make amusing and 

 graceful pets. Their head-quarters in this country appear to be 

 in Berbice, from which locality most of those we see on sale in 

 town are obtained. Mr. von Ziegesar, who resided in Berbice for 

 a long while, informs us that he once possessed a pair of Love- 

 birds which from time to time became the parents of twenty-four 

 young ones, but these the old birds invariably killed and ate-^' 



Genus PIONITES Heine. 



Fionites Heine, Nomenel. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 231, 1890. T^'pe 

 JP. melanocephalus Linn. 



This genus is distinguished chiefly by the short and stout liill, and 

 l)y the wing formula, which has the third and fourth priuiaries 

 longest. 



210. Pionites melanocepliala. 

 Black-headed Caique. 



Psitfacus melanocrphaJiis Linn. Syst. Nat. lOth ed. i. p. 102, 17.J.S 



(Cayenne) ; Cab. in Seliomb. lleis. Guian. iii. p. 723, 1S18. 

 C'aica vwhinoccphalus Salvin, Ibis, 188(5, p. 01) (Bartica Grove, Cania- 



cusa, Mfrume Mts.). 

 Caica melanoccphaln Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 358, 1898; 



Lloyd, Tinit'hri (2) ix. p. 273, LSJ).') (Mazjiruni and Puruni Rivers). 

 Pionites mthniorrjdiala ]iral»ovwn<' &. Cliidih, \\. S. Amcr. i. p. O-t, 



no. SS!), \\)\'l. 



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