Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 487 



Bangs Collection : Tenorio and Bolson (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Bebedero (Carriker). One skin. 



Confined entirely to the northwestern portion of Costa Rica, from 

 the southern end of the Gulf of Nicoya north to Nicaragua, and most 

 abundant in the lower Tempisque Valley. They are very numerous 

 about Bagaces and Bebedero, are easily tamed, and are by far the 

 most fluent talkers of the Central American parrots. Mr. C. F. Under- 

 wood says of this parrot (Ibis, 1896, 446) : "In Bagaces these parrots 

 are extremely abundant, and regularly make the town their head- 

 quarters ; in fact the traveller arriving there a little before sunset is 

 often deafened by their noise, and on his first visit is amazed by the 

 strange scene. From all sides arrive innumerable bands and solitary 

 pairs of ' Loros ' (the Spanish name), which remain for about an 

 hour squabbling and fighting, constantly changing their perches before 

 going to roost in the low trees in the immediate vicinity of the houses. 

 4 Supas ' (Macaws) also make the town their roosting quarters. At 

 daybreak there is a repetition of the noise ; they then go off to their 

 various feeding grounds." 



193. Amazona autumnalis autumnalis (Linnaeus). 



Psittaciis autumnalis LiNN/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 147. 



Chrysotis autumnalis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 302 (Mexico 



to Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr. -Am., Aves, II, 1897, 501 



(Mexico to Guatemala). 

 Amazona autumnalis Sharpe, Hand List of Birds, II, 1900, 21. 



'Carnegie Museum : Guapiles, Feb. 28, 1903, adult c? (Carriker & 



Crawford). 



The specimen cited above agrees quite well with birds from British 

 Honduras, with the following exceptions : yellow spot on sides of 

 head a little smaller ; more lilac on nape (about as much as in A. a. 

 saivini) and more red on tail. Notwithstanding these differences it 

 is much nearer to true autumnalis than to saivini and must be referred 

 to it. I have seen other birds with a trace of yellow on the sides of 

 the head, but this seems to be the only record of the taking of true 

 .autumnalis in Costa Rica. 



194. Amazona autumnalis saivini (Salvadori). 



Chrysotis viridigenalis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 131 (San Jose 



[F. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn. 1869, 365 (C. R.). 

 Chrysotis autumnalis Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 365 (San Jose). 



