1915.] Chapman, New South American Birds. 383 
rhura to be recorded from the Pacific coast region in South America. In 
the shortness of their tails, as the appended measurements show, and the 
blackish skin of the orbital area, they differ from all their allies. Unfor- 
tunately I have no authentic specimens of sowancei for comparison, but if 
that species is figured with even approximate correctness by its describer 
(Verreaux, Rev. et Mag., 1858, p. 437, pl. xii) it has the margins of the 
breast-feathers much wider and much whiter than in pacifica. In the pro-— 
posed new race the markings of that area agree with those of a specimen of 
melanura from Pebas, Peru, but are somewhat more pronounced and slightly 
redder in tone. It.should be stated, however, that in the Pebas skin the 
breast feathers are somewhat worn. 
Measurements. 
Name Locality Sex . Wing. “Fail 
P. m. pacifica Buenavista, Col. of 123 101 
<3 “ “ {4 “ rot 122 92 
“ {4 44 79 “ Q 123 ; 5 95 
P.m. melanura Pebas, Peru ot 127 119 
P. souancei (fide Verreaux), Napo, Ecuador 130 120 
P. berlepschi, Aplobamba, Bolivia Q 134 145 
P. rupicola Yungas 126 117 
Psittacula conspicillata cauce subsp. nov. 
Char. subsp.— Similar to P. c. conspicillata Lafr., of the Bogotd region but 
larger, the wings and tail constantly longer, the bill averaging heavier, the blue areas 
of the rump, inner wing quills, upper and under wing-coverts decidedly less purple, 
spectrum-blue, rather than Hay’s-blue or blue-violet in color. 
Range.— Tropical Zone in the Cauca Valley ranging upward to the lower margin 
of the Subtropical Zone and westward over the San Antonio Pass to the arid basin of 
the upper Dagua Valley. | 
Type.— No. 107754, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., o ad., Cali (3500 ft.), Cauca Valley, 
Colombia, Dec. 21, 1910; W. B. Richardson. 
Remarks.— This form is based on a series of twelve males and three 
females from the Cauca region, representing caucew, and eleven males and 
six females, from the Magdalena Valley and Buena Vista, representing true 
conspicillata. The extremes in color are shown by three males from Caldas 
in the singular arid basin of the upper Dagua Valley, on the otherwise humid 
western slope of the Western Andes, and three from Puerto Berrio in the 
humid Tropical Zone of the Magdalena Valley, which have the rump, etc. 
hyacinth-blue, while their underparts are more glaucous less yellowish than 
other specimens from the Magdalena Valley. 
