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Aratinga LEucoPHTiiALMrs (P. L. S. Muller). 
Psittacus leucophthalmus P. L. S. Muller, Syst. Nat., Suppl. 1776: p. 75 
(Guiana). 
Aratinga leucophthalmus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1913 : p. 196 
(Buelte Triste, Manimo Riv.). 
Recorded from the delta country by Stone. 
/Vrating.\ haemorriioa Spix. 
Aratinge haemorrhoa Spi.x, Av. Bras. I. 1824. p. 29. PI. xiii. 
Conurus hacmorrhous Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 107. 
Abundant about Ciudad Bolivar during April, less connnon at 
.Caicara. Flocks of from two to thirty or forty were frequenting 
trees of ripe mangoes. 
Eye and eye-lid orange yellow, bare skin about eye yellowish 
white; maxilla vinaceous cinnamon, slaty at the extreme tip, mandible 
slate color; feet bufi'y yellow. There is considerable variation in 
the color of the bill ; in some it is vinaceous cinnamon above with the 
extreme tip and mandible blackish slate ; in others the mandible is 
whitish horn color, slaty at the tip. Many of these, as in the pre- 
ceding case, are killed for food. 
Aratinga chrysophrys (Swainson). 
Conurus chrysophrys Swainson, Two Cent, and a Quart, of Birds (in 
Anim. in Menag. pt. Ill: 1838: p. 320, No. 120) (Guiana). 
Conurus aeruginosus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 107. 
Native name Cara-Sucia. Common. 
Eye yellow, bill grey, feet slate grey. 
This species associates in large flocks, except for a short time 
during the breeding season. It is the most abundant parrot found along 
the Orinoco. Tame, very often seen about the native houses. 
Chapman (MS.) has pointed out that the proper name for this bird 
is as given above. 
Pyrrhura melanura (Spix). 
Aratinga melanurus Spix, Av. Bras. I: (1824) p. 36. 
Miller collected a series at Boca de Sina, Cunucunuma River 
(Upper Orinoco) now in the American Museum collection. 
Pyrrhura picta picta (P. L. S. Midler). 
Psittacus pictus Miill., Syst. Nat. Supplement, 1776. p. 75. 
Pyrrhura picta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 108. 
