Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A NEW MOUNTAIN PARRAKEET About one half natural siz^ Fuertes' Parrakeet, Ilapalopsittaca fuertesi (Chapman), a new species collected by one of the Chapman Expeditions at 10,340 feet elevation, near Quindio Pass, Cauca, Colombia. Of the r28ospe:ies, 61 families, des ribed in Chapman's Dinlribution of Bird-Life in Colombia, all were coUec'ted by the Chapman Expeditions. These 1285 species of birds, with the exception of 4o North American migrants, are permanent residents of Colombia. Of this family of macaws, parrots, and parrakeets (Psittacida;), there were 31 species collected, most of them living in low altitudes; 22 spe:-ies in the Tropical Zone, 6 in the Subtropical, 2 including the new species in the Temperate, and none on the Paramo. The new parrakeet (there were 7 specimens taken) was named in honor of the artist, Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The lower figure shows the plumage of the immature bird

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