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c. Head black -with, a large malar patch of yellow or orange-yellow. (Upper 



Amazon Valley.) Pyrilia barrabandi (extralimital)?° 



cc. Head (all round) yellow. (Colombia; Venezuela.). -Pyrilia pyrilia (extralimital). & 



PYRILIA HiEMATOTIS HEMATOTIS (Sclater and Salvin). 



RED -EARED PARROT. 



Adult male. — Pileum dull slate color or slate-gray, more or less 

 tinged or washed with olive, the feathers sometimes narrowly mar- 

 gined with dark brownish red; a dull white or pale brownish buffy 

 supraloral spot (sometimes one at base of culmen also); hindneck 

 tawny-olive; back, scapulars, most of wing-coverts, inner (proximal) 

 secondaries, rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle rectrices yellowish 

 parrot green, the last passing into or tinged with dark blue at tip; 

 carpal region mostly blue; alulse black, edged on outer webs with 

 blue; outer (distal) wing-coverts and secondaries greenish blue pass- 

 ing into green on edge of outer webs; primary coverts and primaries 

 black, the outer ones indistinctly edged with dark blue, some of the 

 longer primaries edged distally with pale buffy; inner webs of rec- 

 trices with proximal half or more vermilion red (duller on rectrices 

 next to middle pair), the distal portion bluish green and dark blue, 

 with reddish dusky next to the red; outer webs blackish, or reddish 

 dusky, suffused with dark blue terminally and basally, narrowly 

 edged with green on sub terminal portion (except on outermost rec- 

 trix), this green becoming more extended inwardly until the rectrix 

 next to middle pair has outer web mostly if not wholly green; sub- 

 orbital and malar regions, anterior portion of auricular region, and 

 middle portion of throat similar in color to pileum, or somewhat 

 lighter (sometimes decidedly grayer), passing posteriorly into dusky 

 or blackish, especially immediately behind auricular region; posterior 

 portion of auricular region with a patch of red (usually more or less 



«■ Psittacus barrabandi Kuhl, Consp. Peitt., 1820, 61 ("Brasilia"; coll. Paris Mus.); 

 Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, pi. 53. — Psittamla barrabandi Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 xiv, 1826, 142.— P[ionus] barrabandi Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 610.— [Poicephalus] 

 barrdbaudi Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301. — [Caica] barrabandi Bonaparte, Rav. 

 etMag. de Zool., 1854, 151 (Consp. Psitt., p. 8). — Amazona barrabandi Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 65. — Pionias barrabandi Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 425. — 

 Eucinetus barrabandi Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 357; Consp. Psitt., 1882, 197; 

 Vogelbild., 1882, pi. 26, fig. 4. — Pionopsittaeus barrabandi Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xx, 1891, 346. 



& Psittacula pyrilia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 807, footnote (Colombia; 

 coll. Paris Mus.). — [Evopsitta] pyrilia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151 

 (Consp. Psitt., p. 8). — Chrysotis pyrilia Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittaci, 1859, 84 

 (Colombia.) — Pionias pyrilia Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 419. — [Pyrilia] pyrilia 

 Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8347.— Caica pyrilia Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 126, in text 

 (Canta, Colombia), 381 (Canta and San Nicolas, Colombia); Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1871, 381, footnote (Rio Acha, above Santa Marta, Colombia). — Pionopsittaeus pyrilia 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 347. — Eucinetus pyrillus Reichenow, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 386; Consp. Psitt., 1882, 196; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 112. 



