Parrots (Psittacidae)

Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet (Touit huetii) - HBW 4, p. 455

French: Toui de Huet German: Schwarzstirnpapagei Spanish: Cotorrita Alirroja

Taxonomy: Psittacus huetii Temminck, 1830, upper Amazonia.
Monotypic.

Distribution: S & NE Venezuela and adjacent N Guyana, occasionally on Trinidad; disjunct in E Colombia; then from E Ecuador and E Peru to N Bolivia; and Amazonian Brazil from R Aripuanã E to R Tocantins, with a single record from Manaus. It is not known whether the apparent gaps in this range are genuine.

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