(SHARP-TAILED PARROT.)
+Conurus acuticaudatus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 111; _White, P.
Z. S._ 1882, p. 621 (Catamarca). +Conurus fugax+, _Burm. La-Plata
Reise_, ii. p. 441. +Conurus glaucifrons+ _Leybold, Leopoldina_,
Heft viii. p. 52 (1873).
_Description._--Above and beneath green; top of head and cheeks
bluish; inner margins of wing-feathers yellowish grey; inner webs
of tail-feathers at their bases red; upper mandible pale whitish,
lower black: whole length 13·0 inches, wing 7·5, tail 7·0. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ Bolivia, Paraguay, and N. Argentina.
White obtained specimens of this Parrot near Andalgala in Catamarca
in September 1880. He tells us that it is not very abundant in that
district, and flies very swiftly in flocks of seven or eight, screeching
continually when on the wing.