CHERRIIC; ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGIOX. 333 
In the region about the falls of Maipures and beyond, this was 
a common species. Not noted, however, below the rapids. 
Amazon.\ inorn.\t.\ (Salvadori). 
Chrysotis inoniata Salvad., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XX. 1891. p. 281. 
Amasona inornata Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 
Native name Sarambo. Xot common and only observed in the 
neighborhood of Munduapo on the upper river. 
The colors taken from fresh birds are : eye orange yellow, bare 
skin around the eye pale greyish white; bill, above dusky slate along 
ridge of culmen and for the apical one-third, angle at rictus and base 
dusky wax yellow, below dusky yellowish grey, skin above the nostrils 
black; feet plumbeous pea green. 
Berlepsch and Hartert record also specimens collected b}- Andre 
at Nicare on the Caura River. 
Amazona ochrocEphala (Gmelin). 
Psittacus ochrocephalus Gm. Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 339. 
Amazona oclirocephala Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 
Common. Native name Loro Real. 
Iris orange chrome, with an inner ring of dark butt; bill Ijlackish, 
horny white toward the base ; feet dusky slate color. 
This is the species most sought after as a cage ])ird (altliough 
almost never caged) by the natives, and there is scarcely a house in 
the country districts where one or more is not to be seen. Except 
during the breeding season, parrots of this species associate in large 
flocks (often two or three hundred birds together), which seem to be 
made up of pairs of adult birds which keep close to one another, and of 
immature birds not yet mated. The nesting season begins at the end 
of March and continues to the end of May. 
Amazona bodini (Finschj-. 
Chrysotis bodini Finsch, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 569. PI. 49. 
Amazona bodini Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 109. 
Native name Tagiia or Lore gor<o Colorado. During my first 
expedition on the Orinoco I found this species abundant along the 
middle stretches of the river, especially about Altagracia and Caicara. 
None were seen on the two more recent trips. 
