GREY-BREASTED PARAKEET Pyrrhura griseipectus EN

Pyrrhura griseipectus Salvadori, 1900

MZUT AV10583; previously mounted; unsexed; no locality; 1888; donated by Count Peracca. MZUT AV10584; previously mounted; unsexed; no locality; 1888; donated by Count Peracca.

Remarks.—These specimens are syntypes; their locality is unknown, but Salvadori suspected they came from ‘Guiana’, although the species is now known to be endemic to north-east Brazil. They had been kept in captivity by Count Peracca (Salvadori 1900), assistant at the Institute of Zoology of the Torino University.