578 PSITTACIDiE, 



de Beltran in Southern Jalisco in March, It is everywhere abundant on the Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec, living in woods, on plains, and in the neighbourhood of inhabited 

 places. Passing southwards into Guatemala it occurs in the coast-lands bordering the 

 Pacific at Eetalbuleu ; but the only place we ever saw it on the eastern side of the 

 Cordillera was the neighbourhood of some hot springs on the roadside between the 

 Eio Motagua and Chuacus in Vera Paz. Here we never failed when passing to see a 

 small flock of these birds in the trees about the springs, where they kept company 

 with a flock of Chrysotis alhifrons. In Salvador, C. canicularis has been found at 

 La Libertad on the coast, and still keeping to the Paciflc side of the mountains in 

 Honduras, where Taylor says it is abundant^. There is a specimen in the British 

 Museum said to have come from Nicaragua, but we have no skins from the collectors 

 who have recently worked in that country. It is recorded from Costa Kica, and this 

 is the extremity of its range in that direction ^^ ^^. 



PYREHUEA. 



Pyrrhura, Bonaparte, Naumanniaj 1856, p. 383; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 211. 



Pyrrhura is a purely Neotropical genus, containing nineteen species, only one of 

 which is found within our limits, the rest being distributed over nearly the whole of 

 South America as far south as the northern provinces of Argentina. The single 

 Central-American species, P. hoffmanni, is only found in Costa Eica and the adjoining 

 part of the State of Panama. 



As a genus, Pyrrhura has a general resemblance to Conurus, so far as its shape is 

 concerned, but difiers much in coloration and in several points of structure. The 

 naked cere has no small isolated feathers surrounding the nostril as in many Conuri ; 

 the fourth primary is not attenuated at the end ; the tail beneath is red or brownish 

 red. and in many species on the upperside also. The ambiens muscle, according to 

 Garrod, is absent, being present in Conurus, and on this fact he laid much stress when 

 constructing his classification of Parrots. 



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]. Pyrrhura hoifmanni. 



Conurus hoffmanni, Cab. Sitz.-Ber. der Ges. naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, 13 Nov. 1861 ' ; Lawr. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 131 ' ; Scl. & Salv.Ex. Orn. p. 161, t. 81 ' ; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, 

 p. 365*; Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 214'; Ibis, 1871, p. 93 ° ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 46'; 

 Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 124'. 

 Pyrrhura hoffmanni, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 335 "; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 230'°. 

 Viridis, pilei plumis flavido terminatis, regione ooulari coecinea, mento calvo plumulis sparsis aurantiaois 

 (postice rubidis) notato ; primariis externis ad basin csenilesoentibus, alula spuria, tectricibus majoribus 

 et primariis internis ad basin flavis ; primariis externis subtus efc tectricibus majoribus griseo-f usois, 

 olivaceo tinctis, remigibus reliquis ad basin flavis, tectricibus minoribus viridibus ; cauda supra rufo- 

 olivacea, ad basin viridescentiore, rhaehidibus basi albis, subtus brunneo-rufa ; rostro eburneo-albo ; 

 pedibus fuscis. Long, tota circa 9-0, alae 5-2, caudse rectr. med. 4-3, reetr. lat. 2-2, rostri oulrainis 0-8, 

 tarsi 0-5. (Deacr. maris ex Angostura, Costa Eica. Mus. nostr.) 



