Todd-Carrikee : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 199 



available. The Peruvian bird is described as having the feathers of 

 the lower parts showing a good deal of yellow, which is not true of the 

 present series, although several of them have scattering red feathers 

 on the crown, throat, and upper breast. The red at the base of the 

 outer secondaries is mostly concealed. (Compare Sclater's remarks in 

 the Ihis, 1881, 412.) 



The range Of this parrot extends from the upper part of the Sub- 

 tropical well through the Temperate Zone. Mr. Brown secured two 

 specimens from the Paramo de Chiruqua, at an altitude of 11,000 feet, 

 and the writer found it common in the same general region, wherever 

 woodland remained above 8,000 feet, and thence up to the lower edge 

 of the paramos, say 11,000 feet. It is a very shy bird, however, and 

 hard to secure except early in the morning. Several nights were 

 passed at 9,000 feet on the Cerro de Caracas, at the edge of the forest 

 where the birds roosted, in the effort to obtain them, so that a good 

 series of specimens was eventually secured without much trouble. 

 The species has lately been discovered on the San Lorenzo also, a flock 

 of about twelve birds having repeatedly been observed by the writer 

 frequenting the highest peak (9,300 feet), in November, 1920. They 

 were seen and heard late in the evening and at dawn, indicating that 

 this was their permanent home. 



125. Amazona amazonica amazonica (Linnaeus). 



Chrysalis amazonica Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 176 (Arihueca). — Sal- 

 vADORi, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX, i8gi, 283 (Arihueca). 



Amazona amazonica Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 132 (Sal- 

 vin and Godman's reference). 



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Seven specimens : Fundacion, Trojas de Cataca, and Tucurinca. 



The Colombian skins agree with those from French Guiana in our 

 collection. Both series show considerable variation, affecting the ex- 

 tent and intensity of the orange color on the tail and wings, and the 

 yellow and blue areas on the head. 



A common parrot in the Tropical Zone lowlands around the Cienaga 

 Grande, back to the edge of the foothills, but not yet recorded from 

 the plains south of the Sierra Nevada. 



126. Pionus sordidus saturatus Todd. 



Pionus sordidus (not Psittacus sordidus Linnaeus) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, XII, 1898, 133 ("Santa Marta"; crit.), 172 (San Miguel). — 



