496 On new Species of Birds from Western Ecuador. 
psitta . The tail of this genus is longer and more cuneiform 
than in Caica, and the bill is more feeble. 
Pionopsitta was, by an oversight, omitted from our r No- 
menclator/ As far as I know them, the species that should 
be included in it are the following :— 
ex Brasilia, 
ex Bolivia. 
ex Amazonia et iEquat. 
ex Columbia, 
ex iEquat. occ. 
P. amazonina 
P. pyrrhops . 
Leucopternis occidentalis. 
Supra saturate plumbeus fere unicolor: dorso postico et uro- 
pygio albis,hoc plumbeovariegato: capite summo etnucha 
albo vix intermixto: primariis plumbescenti-nigris, secun- 
dariis albo terminatis et nigro obsolete transfasciatis, tec- 
tricibus humeralibus albo punctatis : cauda alba, fascia 
lata subterminali nigra, apice alba : subtus albus, genis et 
colli lateribus fasciis minutis notatis : pagina inferiore 
alarum alba : remigibus et secundariis intus nigro trans¬ 
fasciatis, apicibus nigris : rostro et cera plumbeo-nigris, 
pedibus flavis : long, tota 18 - 0, alse 14*0, caudse 8'0, ros- 
tri a rictu 1*6, tarsi 3 0. 
Hab. Rep. iEquat. Occident. 
Obs. L. albicolli affinis sed capite summo plerumque plum- 
beo nee albo, colore supra plumbescentiore et fascia caudali an- 
gustiore distinguendus. 
The label giving the precise locality where this bird was 
shot has unfortunately been lost; but the habitat of the species 
may be assigned to the Province of Loxa or Puna Island, where 
alone Villagomez collected. 
No species of this form has hitherto been noted from Ecua¬ 
dor; so that one might well have been expected from there. 
Moreover, as the range of most of the species of this genus 
is limited to circumscribed districts, it is not surprising to find 
this bird differing from its more eastern ally*. 
* Since the above was in type Mr. Gurney’s note (ontea, p. 473) re¬ 
cording the existence of a specimen of L. albicollis from 11 Quito ” in the 
Norwich Museum has come before me. The bird I now describe is 
doubtless the representative of L. albicollis in the western forests of the 
