1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 259 



(785) Pyrrhura calliptera (Mass. & SouancS). 



Conurus callipterus Mass. &. SouANcfi, Rev. et Mag., 1854, p. 72 ("Nouvelle 

 Grenade et la Colombie"). 



We found this species to be common in the Subtropical Zone of the 

 western slope of the Eastern Andes. Owing to our unfortunate failure to 

 discover suitable collecting stations in this zone on the eastern slope of this 

 range, we cannot say whether it is confined to the western side. An im- 

 mature specimen has the primary coverts green with but a slight yellow 

 margin on one feather. 



Fusugasuga, 3; El Roble, 3; Subia, 7. 



(786a) Pyrrhura melanura pacifica Chapm. 



Pyrrhura melanura pacifica Chapm., Bull. A. M. N. H., XXXIV, 1915, p. 382 

 (Buenavista, Narifio, Col.). 



Char, subsp. — Similar to P. m. melanura but smaller, the tail, relatively, much 

 shorter; primary coverts not tipped with yeUow; tail, above, redder; forehead 

 greener; bare orbital region blackish instead of whitish (in dried skins); bill less 

 stout, mandible blacker. 



This race, which is known only from the type-locality, appears to be the 

 only form of Pyrrhura recorded from the Pacific coast region of South Amer- 

 ica. 



Buenavista, Nariiio, 3. 



(787) Pyrrhura souancei (Verr.). 



Micrositiace souancei Vbkr., Rev. et Mag., 1858, p. 437, pi. 12 (no locality; 

 three specimens from "Napo" listed as "types of the species" in Cat. Bds. B. M., 

 XX, p. 224). 



I provisionally refer three adult specimens from La Candela to this 

 species, of which I have seen no specimens. They seem to agree more 

 closely with Verreaux's plate than with the description of this species in the 

 Catalogue of the British Museum. The plate figures a bird having the 

 breast-feathers broadly tipped with whitish — described by Verreaux as 

 " squame blanchatres" — ; whereas, Salvadori (Cat. Bds., XX, B. M., p. 224) 

 describes souancei as having each feather of the breast "with two cross- 

 bands, a light brown one and a second blackish at the edge." Furthermore, 

 the same writer describes P. berlepschi {I. c, p. 224) as very much like souan- 



