YELLOW-EARED PARROT Ognorhynchus icterotis EN

Conurus icterotis Massena & Souancé, 1854

MZUT AV7786; previously mounted; unsexed (or female?) adult; Colombia (‘Nouvelle Grenade’), Bogotá, 1868?; purchased from Mr De Gréaux .

Remarks.—The label that was attached to the base mentions Bogotá (Colombia); the old label: 1868, Psittacara icterotis, [...] Brasil [deleted], Nuova Granata, L. 150, 205/1870, «on n’en connait que 2 exemplaires 1 à Londres 1 à M. Turati, aucun autre Musée ne le posside [sic]».

De Gréaux was not entirely correct, but he was right to believe that the species was very rare in European collections: a few years earlier, Finsch (1867) was aware of just three, all from ‘Neu-Granada’, in the British Museum (arguably the holotype, cf. Salvadori 1891, Warren 1966), in Bremen and in the Museum Heineanum, the last the type of Gnathosittaca heinei Cabanis.