202 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Pyrilia pyrUia (Bonaparte). 



Psittacula pyrilia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXVII, 1853, 807, footnote 



("Rio Hacha"; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Paris Mus.). 

 Caica pyrilia Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1871, 381, footnote ("Rio Hacha")- 



This parrot was described by Bonaparte from a specimen said to have been 

 collected at Rio Hacha by Fontainier. Mr. Carriker failed to meet with it 

 either here or elsewhere in the Santa Marta region, and from the circum- 

 stance that the species is known to affect humid rather than arid conditions 

 it is probable that if it occurs anywhere in this region it would be in the 

 vicinity of Fundacion. 



128. Psittacula passerina cyanophanes Todd. 



Psittacula cyanoptera (not Psittacus cyanopterus Boddaert ,? ) Salvin and 



GODMAN, Ibis, 1880, 176 (Valle de Upar and Valencia). 

 Psittacula guianensis (not Agapornis guianensis Swainson) Ridgway, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 543 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). — Salvadori, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 251 (Valle de Upar and Valencia). — Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 132 (Salvin and Godman's reference). 

 Psittacula guianensis viridissima (not of Lafresnaye) Hellmavr, Nov. Zool., 



XIV, 1907, 88 (Valencia and Valle de Upar; crit.). 

 Psittacula' passenna cyanophanes Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, 



1915, 81 (Rio Hacha; orig. descr.; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinar 



Maria, Bol. Soc, Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, III, 191S, 88 (ref. orig. descr.). 



— Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, 503 (ref. orig. descr.). 



— Cory, Field Mus. Z06I. Series, XIII, 1918, 77 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 

 Psittacula spengeli (not of Hartlaub) Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VII, 1916, 194, part (Valle de Upar and Valencia, in range). 



Fifteen specimens : Rio Haclia. 



Mr. Ridgway was the first to remark the peculiarities of Santa Marta 

 specimens of what was then called Psittacula guianensis, and both 

 Count Salvadori and Mr. Hellmayr have referred to t^ie sarne circum- 

 stance. The adult male of this newly described form, of which several 

 fine specimens are before us, differs from a series of the same sex of 

 P. passerina viridissima from Venezuela (including two from close to 

 the type-locality) in the- following respects : there is much more hya- 

 cinth blue on the primary and secondary coverts, forming a conspicu- 

 ous patch in the closed wing, while this color is more extended on the 

 under wing-coverts also. In viridissima the hyacinth blue of the upper 

 coverts is mostly concealed, being confined to the inner webs of the 

 feathers, while on the under surface of the wing it seldom spreads be- 

 yond the secondary coverts. Females of the two forms are quite in- 

 distinguishable, however. 



