Parrots (Psittacidae) - HBW 4

Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet (Touit huetii)

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.