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ee. Under surface of remiges yellowish olive; bill blackish.. (Guianaa to 



Paraguay and Bolivia.) Eupsittula aurea (extralimital). a 



<x. Whole pileum (including forehead) and cheeks bright parrot green or grass 

 green; under primary coverts and under surface of remiges deep slate- 

 grayish; chest deep olive or olive-greenish. 

 d. Bill much smaller (culmen 16.5-20). (Southern Mexico to Costa Rica.) 



Eupsittula astec (p. 171). 

 dd. Bill much larger (culmen 21-22.5). (Jamaica.) . . .Eupsittula nana (p. 174). 

 aa. Crown with a red patch. (Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; extinct.) 

 \ Eupsittula(?) labati (p. 175). 



EUPSITTULA PERTINAX PERTINAX (Linnaeus). 



CURASAO PAROQUET. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Upper parts (except forehead, and, super- 

 ciliary region) light yellowish parrot green or deep apple green, the 

 crown (anterior portion at least) tinged with bluish green; distal 

 secondaries and distal portion of primaries greenish blue, the latter 

 margined terminally with blackish; the green of middle rectrices 

 sometimes passing terminally into greenish blue; forehead (broadly), 

 whole side of head, including superciliary region, and anterior portion 

 of side of neck, deep orange-yellow or yellow-orange (cadmium 

 yellow to orange); throat, foreneck, and upper chest light buffy 

 brownish or dull brownish buffy, the remaining under parts clear 

 yellowish apple green, intermixed on abdomen with orange-yellow 

 or yellow-orange; smaller under wing-coverts clear 'light yellowish 

 green (much yellower than apple green) ; under primary coverts and 

 under surface of remiges dull slate color; under surface of tail yel- 

 lowish olive changing to bright olive-yellow; bill light brownish; 

 iris yellow or straw yellow; bare orbital space pale brownish (dull 

 white in life?); legs and feet brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but with yellow of head much more 

 restricted, confined to suborbital and loral regions and anterior 

 portion of forehead, the whole pileum (except anterior portion of 

 forehead green, the posterior portion of auricular and malar regions, 

 sides of neck and throat light buffy olive or ecru-olive. 



a [Psittacus] aureus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 329 (Brazil; based on Psittaca 

 brasiliensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 337; Perruche couronne'e d'or Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 

 271; Golden-crowned Parrakeet Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 235). — Aratinga aureus Spix, 

 Av. Bras., i, 1824, 37; Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 16, pi. 20. — Conurus aureus Lesson, 

 Traite d' Orn., 1831, 214; Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1878, pi. 2, fig. 2; Salvadori, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 199.— 8[ittace] aurea Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 649.— 

 [Eupsittula] aureus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 150 (Consp. Psitt., p. 7). — 

 Eupsittaca aurea Cabanis, Joum. fur Orn., 1862, 335, in text. — [Psittacus] brasiliensis 

 (not of Linnseus) Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 103. — Psittacus regulus Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool., viii, pt. ii, 1812, 453 (new name for P. brasiliensis Latham). — Ps[ittacus] canicu- 

 laris (not of Linnseus) Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 6.— Conurus canieularis 

 Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 728.— [Eupsittula] canieularis 

 Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 150 (Consp. Psitt., p. 7). 



