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Adult female.— Length (skins), 795-950 (848); wing, 386-410 (397); 

 tail, 490-610 (541.73; culmen, 66.5-70 (68); tarsus, 33.5-36.5 (35.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 40-44 (42).° 



Southern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico), Vera Cruz 

 (Tuxpan; Uvero), Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Chimalapa; Cacoprieto), 

 and Chiapas (Tonala) and southward through Guatemala (Naranjo; 

 Aguna; Savana Grande; San Augustin; Huamuchal; Plains of Salama; 

 Choctum; pine ridge of Poctun; Los Amates, Yzabal), Salvador (La 

 Uni6n), Honduras (Omoa; Tigre Island; Comayagua; Chamelic6n; 

 Rio Seg6via), Nicaragua (Chinandega; San Juan del Sur; Sucuya; 

 Omotepe; Los Sabalos; Rio Escondido; Matagalpa; San Rafael del 

 Norte), Costa Rica (Naranjo de Cartago; San Carlos; Las Trojas; 

 Tres Rios; Rio Sucio; Jimenez; Bonilla; Rio Peje; Los Anonas; Volcan 

 de Miravalles; La Palma de Nicoya; Pigres; Boruca; Pozo del Rio 

 Grande), Panama (Lion Hill; Coiba Island), Colombia (La Murelia, 

 Rio Bodoquero, Coqueta; Rio Magdalena; Cartagena; Bogota), eastern 

 Ecuad6r (Sarayacu), eastern Peru (Yarina Chocha, Rio Ucayali; Rio 

 Huallaga; Rio Javarri; Chyavetas; Yurimaguas), Venezuela (Caicara 

 and Nicar6, Orinoco Valley; Rio Mocha, upper Rio Caura; Rio 

 Guarapiche), British Guiana (Georgetown; Demerara), Dutch Guiana 

 (Surinam), and French Guiana (Cayenne), to Brazil (Rio Capim; 

 Rio Jurua, Amazonas; Huaymatha, Rio Madeira; Arumatheusa, Rio 

 Tocantins; Mexiana Island) and Bolivia (Santa Cruz de la Sierra). 



[Psittacus] macao Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 96 (South America) 6 

 based on Psittacus maximus alter Aldrovandi, Orn., 1. 11, c. 3; Willughby, 

 Orn., 73; Edwards, Birds, 158, pi. 158; etc.); ed. 12, i, 1766, 139 (excl. syn. 

 part).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 312 (excl. syn. part). — Latham, 

 Index Om., i, 1790, 82. 



<* Three specimens. 



6 According to Hellmayr (Spix's Types, p. 577) the type locality is Pernambuco, 

 e. Brazil, exMarcgrave). 



1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 9 



