576 PSITTACID^. 



small orange feathers between the nostrils being always present instead of sometimes 

 absent. 



The range of C. aztec extends over the whole of the hotter parts of the State of Vera 

 Cruz from Tampico southwards, and thence to the State of Tabasco and Yucatan, and 

 some of the islands off the north-east coast. It is found also in British Honduras and 

 in Eastern Guatemala, where we met with it near Peten and also near Cahabon. It is, 

 however, by no means so common in Guatemala as in Eastern Mexico. Passing south 

 it occurs in Honduras at San Pedro and Comayagua, being not uncommon, according 

 to Taylor, at the latter place '^. In Eastern Nicaragua it is abundant, occurring, 

 according to Mr. Richmond ^3, on the Eio Escondido in large flocks, and in this 

 district nearly every collector has found it. Mr. Nutting secured three specimens 

 at Los Sabalos ^^, and noted that the iris was yellow, and the cere and orbital region 

 white. 



The only authority we have for its occurrence in Costa Rica is a specimen sent us 

 from that country by Carmiol, but without precise locality ; but M. Boucard shot a 

 specimen out of a large flock that was feeding on fruits and seeds in the forest at San 

 Carlos in February ^. 



6. CouTirus ocularis. 



Conurus pertinax ?, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 333 '. 

 Conurus chrysogenys, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 11 ''. 



Conurus ocularis, ^c\. & Salv. P.Z. S. 1864, p. 367'; Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 214*; Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 93 " ; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 197 \ 



Viridis, pileo antioo vix cseruleo tincto, fronte stricte fdsea, area oculorum aurantiaca, parte infra ocrdos latiore ; 



■ capitis lateribus, genis, gutture et pectore toto viridi-fuscis, abdomine viridi vix aurantiaco tincto : alis 



subtus sicut in O. aztec ; rostro corneo, apice pallido ; pedibus fuscis. Long, tota circa 9'0, alae 5*5, caudse 



rectr. med. 4"4, rectr. lat. 2-6, rostri culminis 0'8, tarsi 0'55. (Descr. maris exempl. typ. ex Panama. 



Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Panama, Calobre {Arc4 ^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ ^ ^). 



Conurus ocularis is very closely allied to C. ceruginosus of Venezuela and Guiana, 

 but has the green colour of the crown scarcely tinged with blue, and the orange ring 

 round the eye wider below than above, and the abdomen nearly destitute of the orange 

 patch in the middle. These differences are very slight, but seem possessed by the 

 birds of Panama alone, and thus we were led to separate them by a distinct name in 

 1864, and this course has been endorsed by Count Salvadori. 



Our first specimens were sent us by M'Leannan from his station on the Panama 

 Railway ^, others subsequently reached us from other parts of the State of Panama * ; 

 but the bird does not appear to extend far to the westward, and is apparently absent 

 in Chiriqui and in Costa Rica. 



