482 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



184. Ara ambigua (Bechstein). 



(Native name " Lapa Azul.") 



Psittacus ambigum Bkchstein, Kurze Ueb. , IV, 65. 



Ara ambigua Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , XX, 1891, 160. 



Ara militaris Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878,46 (San Carlos, El Zarcero). — Zf.ledon, 



An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 (C. R.) — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1897, 568 (Talamanca [Gabb], in Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Sittacc militaris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 131 (J. Carmiol). — 



Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 364 (C. R.). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Bonilla (Ridgway), Guayabo (Ridgway and 



Zeledon). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 Bangs Collection : Carrillo (Underwood.) 

 Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford). One skin. 



This beautiful macaw is found only on the eastern side of Costa 

 Rica, ranging over the whole of the Caribbean lowlands up to 2,000 

 feet, but is not abundant anywhere, that is, never as abundant as the 

 preceding species. Their habits are the same. A female killed at 

 Guapiles February 28, 1902, contained an egg in the oviduct, ready 

 to be laid. It was about the size of a small hen's egg, but more 

 elliptical and creamy-white in color. 



185. Conurus finschi Salvin. 



Conurus finschi Salvin, Ibis, 1871, 91, pi. 4 (Panama [Arce]). — Zeledon, An. 

 Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 (Naranjo de Cartago and San Jose). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882 (C. R. [Van Patten] ). — Sal- 

 vadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 184 (Chiriqui). — Cherrie, Auk, 

 IX, 1892, 327 (San Jose, a rare straggler). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), Bonilla 



(Basulto) (Ridgway). 

 Bangs Collection : San Pedro de San Jose, Monte Redondo (Under- 

 wood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker and Crawford), Miravalles 

 (Carriker). Six skins. 



With the exception of C. aztec, the commonest parrot through- 

 out the Caribbean lowlands, ranging up to as high as 3000 feet, but 

 commonest at low altitudes. It is also occasionally found on the 

 Pacific slope in northwestern Costa Rica (Miravalles) having passed 

 westward along the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua, thence south- 

 ward through Guanacaste. Mr. Cherrie also reports it to be a rare 



