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This Paroquet appears to be known only from the arid Caribbean por- 

 tion of the Tropical Zone of Colombia. In addition to the specimens listed 

 below, we have also one labelled " Santa Marta" and the range of the species 

 may extend eastward into Venezuela. Farther east it is represented by 

 C. chrysophrys Swains ( = oeruginosus Auct.), and to the west by C. ocularis. 



The name wruginosus (Linn.) as currently used, is applied to two quite 

 different birds, one of which has a more or less complete and conspicuous 

 ring of orange feathers about the orbital region, while in the other this mark 

 is usually absent, though in some specimens there are a few yellow feathers 

 in this area, particularly below the eye. 



Edwards' plate (No. 177) obviously figures a bird without yellow about 

 the eye, and his excellent description makes no mention of an orange orbital 

 ring. Linnaeus' name wruginosus, based on Edwards', is clearly, therefore, 

 applicable to the bird without this ring. This is the species of the arid 

 region of Colombia and I have therefore suggested Calamar as an appro- 

 priate type-locality.i 



1 am aware that Brabourne & Chubb (Bds. S. A., I, p. 82) have already 

 proposed to "substitute Cayenne" as the type-locality for wruginosus but 

 examination of the series of specimens from British and Dutch Guiana in- 

 dicate that the Cayenne bird is not true wruginosus. All our fifteen speci- 

 mens from the two Guianas named, the lower Orinoco and Bermudez, 

 Venezuela, have the orange orbital ring. They further differ from the Co- 

 lombian bird, which I consider true wruginosus, in having the forehead 

 whiter, the breast and sides of the head paler, and the auriculars less dis- 

 tinctly streaked; in short, are evidently distinct. Swainson's name chry- 

 sophrys, ^ based on a Guiana bird, is obviously applicable to this form. 



La Playa, 4; Varrud, 1; Calamar, 4; Algodonal, 4. 



(771) Ognorhynchus icterotis {Mass. & SouancS). 



Conurus isterotis Mass. & Souanc^, Rev. et Mag., 1854, p. 71 (Ocafia, New 

 Granada). 



Common, and in places, abundant in the Subtropical Zone of the Cen- 

 tral Andes. Found in the Western Andes only west of Popayan and on the 

 lower Cauca. In May this species was observed nesting in colonies in holes 

 eighty or more feet up in the wax palms which are so characteristic a feature 

 of the flora along the Quiadio Trail above the rivers Tochecito and Toche. 



La Frijblera, 5; Andes west of Popayan, 10,340 feet, 2; Miraflores, 3; 

 Rio Toche, 12. 



•' Since the above was written, I observe that W. E. C. Todd (I. c.) has described the Colombian 

 form as Aratinga xraginosa occidentalism but if my understanding of the case is correct he has merely 

 renamed the bird on which the name gsragirwsa is based. 



2 Anim. in Menag., 1838, p. 320. 



