YELLOW-FACED PARROTLET Forpus xanthops VU

Psittacula xanthops Salvin, 1895

MZUT AV5759; skin; adult male; Peru, Huamachuco, Viña Marañón, 5,000 ft., 1 March 1895; from Berlepsch, ex. O . T. Baron collection .

Remarks.—This specimen, donated by Hans Berlepsch (1850–1915), originally formed part of the collection of Oskar Theodore Baron (1847–1926), a German engineer who travelled in northern Peru. The type series, also collected by Baron in the previous year (March 1894), is from the same locality (Salvin 1895).