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Eye orange chrome; bill dusky; feet slate grey. 
A great many parrots of this and the preceding species, both of 
which congregate in great flocks, are killed for their flesh. E-xcept 
during the breeding season, they are very fat and make a most 
acceptable addition to one's bill of fare. 
The status of this species prior to the series I secured in 1897 
and 189S, was in doubt. 
Amazona amazonica (Linnaeus). 
Psittaciis aiiiaconicns L.. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 147. 
.hnazona ntuazoiiica Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 
Native name Cotorra. Rare, one specimen taken at Ouiribana de 
Caicara in April, 1898. 
Eye orange yellow; maxilla blackish, mandible yellowish horn color 
with dusky tip; feet dusky olive plumbeous. 
PioNus Fuscus (P. L. S. Miiller). 
Psittacus fiiscHs Miill.. Syst. Nat. Supplement, 1776. p. 78. 
Pioiius fuscus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 
Not observed on the Orinoco. Berlepsch and Hartert record a 
specimen that was collected by Klages in the "Mountains west of 
Suapure'' (Caura River). 
The American Museum contains a specimen from El Llagual 
(Caura ). 
PioNus MENSTRuus (Linnaeus). 
Psittacus inciistruus L.. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 148. 
Pioiius luciistruus Berlepsch S: Hartert, p. no. 
Native name Cataiiito. Not unojmmon. Observed only on the 
upper river. 
Three young were taken on the 13th of ]\Iarch. The nest was a 
hole in a tree, a natural cavity, about 6.10 m. from the ground. The 
cavity was about 60 cm. deep, and no lining or nesting material of 
any kind had been taken in. The oldest of the three young had the 
body nearly as large as that of the parent, but almost naked. Judging 
by the size of the three young, there must have been at least four or 
five days between the hatching of the oldest and of the youngest. 
Adults in life ha\e the eye seal brown, bare skin about eye bluish 
