The Auk (Volume 5) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The under surface of the body in S. coryi is much lighter than in S. fuliginosa, being whitish on the throat and the middle of the abdomen, and brownish gray on the breast and sides of the body, while in S. fuliginosa nearly all the under surface of the body is of a uniform, dark cinereous, and the chin never shows any rufous suffusion, as is the case in 5." coryi. The outer aspect of the wing in 5." coryi is rather darker rufous brown, and the under wing-coverts and inner margins of the quills are a uniform cinnamon rufous, being grayish with a slight admixture of rufous in S. fuliginosa. The bill in S. coryi is slightly longer and the base of the under mandible is yellow to a much greater extent. The wings and the tail are much shorter than in S. fuliginosa. SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS ON THE GENUS PSITTACULA BRISSON. BY KOBEKT RlDGWAY. In a collection of birds from Bahia recently received at the National Museum are eight specimens of Psittacula passerina vivicla, for the first time described in my recently published review of this genus.* There are five adult males and three adult females, and all exhibit the distinctive characters of the new race as compared with the true P. passerina (Linn.), from the more northern provinces of Brazil. Some of the males show, more or less strongly, a bluish tinge across the hind-neck, this in one of them intensified just behind and above the auriculars into a rather distinct bluish spot. The fifth specimen lacks the bluish tinge on the hind neck and is somewhat lighter colored throughout, thus approaching true P. passerina. Since the above specimens were received, Dr. Sclater has kindly called my attention to an important paper on species of this genus by Dr. Hartlaubf which I had entirely overlooked in the preparation of my'Revi...