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and with nearly straight anterior outline; plumage in general rather 

 harsh, not blended. General color green, the under surface of remiges 

 greenish blue or bluish green (dusky next to shaft) ; chin or primary 

 coverts (sometimes both) orange in some species, sometimes the fore- 

 head yellow, one species with under wing-coverts orange, pileum 

 light greenish blue, and sides of head pale grayish. 



Range. — Southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, Amazon Valley, 

 and Guiana. (Eight species. ) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BROTOGERIS.* 



a. Primary-coverts green; forehead green (sometimes tinged with yellowish). 

 6. Lesser and middle wing-coverts olive-brown (raw-umber); smaller under wing- 

 coverts chrome yellow; primaries bluish green. (Southern Mexico to Colom- 

 bia.) Brotogeris jugularis (p. 183). 



66. Lesser and middle wing-coverts, also smaller under wing-coverts, green, prima- 

 ries deep blue edged with bluish green. 

 c. Alula and whole edge of wing green. (Central Colombia to upper Rio Negro 



and upper Amazon Valley.), Brotogeris devillei (extralimital). c 



cc. Alula, edge of wing, and bend of wing yellow. (Eastern Peru.) 



Brotogeris gustavi (extralimital)."* 

 aa. Primary coverts orange; forehead (narrowly) orange. (Lower Amazon Valley.) 



Brotogeris tuipara (extralimital).e 



BROTOGERIS JUGULARIS (Mtiller). 



TOVT PAROQUET. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck clear paris green, the 

 sides of head and neck similar but slightly lighter or more yellowish; 

 upper back and anterior scapulars oil green passing into paris green 

 or more bluish green on lower back and posterior scapulars; rump, 



a Of these I have not seen Sittace devillei Gray, Brotogerys gustavi Berlepsch, nor B. 

 chrysosema Sclater; but these seem to be congeneric with the type of Brotogeris. 



* b Only those extralimital species which agree with B. jugularis in having an orange 

 colored chin-spot being given. 



c Brotogerys devillei Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 261 (Amazon R.; 

 coll. Brit. Mus.; ex [Sittace] devillei Gray, Hand -list, ii, 1870, 150, no. 8159). 



<* Brotogerys gustavi Berlepsch, Ibis, sixth ser., no. ii, April, 1889, 181, pi. 6 (Tuan- 

 fue^ upper Rio Huallaga, e. Peru; coll. Count von Berlepsch); Salvadori, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 262. 



« (??) Psittacus cajenneus Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 81 (not of p. 78; based 

 on Petit Perruche de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 456, fig. 2). — (??) Psittacus nota- 

 tus (not of Muller, 1776) Boddaert, Tabl. Pi. Enl., 1783, 27 (based on PI. Enl., pi. 456, 

 fig. 2). — Brotogerys notatus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 352. — Brotogerys notata 

 Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1882, p, fig. 3; Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 344 (Consp. Psitt., 

 p. 184). — [Psittacus] tuipara Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 348 (Brazil; based 

 on Tuipara Tupinambis Ray, Av., p. 35; Willughby, Orn., p. 117; Psittacula bra- 

 siliensis erythrocephala Brisson, Orn., iv, 383; Red-fronted Parrot Latham, Synopsis 

 Birds, i, pt. 1, 308).— S[ittace] tuipara Wagler, Consp. Psitt., 1832, 633 (descr. adult).— 

 C[onurus] tuipara Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 414. — Psittovius tuipara Bonaparte, Rev. 

 etMag. de Zool., 1854, 151. — Brotogerys tuipara Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 104, part; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 262. — Psittaculus tuipara Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 28. — Psittacus sosove, var. Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 27. — 

 Brotogeris aurifrons Cassin, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1855, 155, pi. 14, fig. 2 

 (South America). 



