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BROTOGERIS JUGULARIS JUGULARIS (P. L. S. Miiller) 
Psittacus jugularis P. L. S. MUtuumr, Natursystem, Suppl., 1776, p. 80 (Bonda, 
Santa Marta, Colombia). 
At the Hacienda Santa Maria I found a pair of these parakeets at an 
old woodpecker hole in a dead palm and preserved the male. Others 
were seen here on November 7 and 13. The flight of these birds is 
swift and darting and resembles that of one of the fast-flying bats 
like Tadarda. 
AMAZONA ALBIFRONS NANA W. DeW. Miller 
Amazona albifrons nana W. DeWitt MituEr, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 
21, 1905, p. 349 (Calotmul, Yucatdn). 
Near Liberia these parrots were so common that they were seen 
daily in morning and evening passage across the sky, and occasionally 
I found small flocks feeding in the forest. I identified them in flight 
by size and by the red in the wing, aided occasionally by a glimpse of 
the white forehead as they passed. At sunset on the evening of No- 
vember 16 a flock of 200 flew over the town in scattered formation. 
Two were taken on October 24. A few were recorded in the open 
country below the house at the Hacienda Santa Maria on November 
12 and 15. 
In the two taken the wing in the male measures 158 mm., and in 
the female 156 mm. 
AMAZONA OCHROCEPHALA AURO-PALLIATA (Lesson) 
Psittacus (amazona) auro-palliatus Lesson, Rev. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, May 1842, 
p. 185 (Realejo, Nicaragua). 
Near Liberia these parrots were common, being seen most frequently 
in the morning and evening flights. Occasionally I found small flocks 
resting in the early morning sun or feeding in forest trees that were in 
fruit. A female was shot from the top of a tall guanacaste tree on 
October 30. They were common in captivity, being kept with wings 
clipped, sometimes on a perch, and sometimes in a small tree beside the 
door. Although they often called as their wild brethern flew screech- 
ing overhead they did not appear interested in them otherwise. 
Family CUCULIDAE 
PIAYA CAYANA STIRTONI van Rossem 
Piaya cayana stirtont vAN RosseM, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, 
Sept. 30, 1930, p. 209 (Mount Cacaguatique, El Salvador). 
The squirrel-cuckoo was fairly common near Liberia along the Rio 
Liberia and the Rio Colorado. Specimens were preserved on October 
26 and November 17. 
The present species is most interesting in the variations that it 
exhibits in different sections of its vast range. On the Pacific slope of 
