Marion,
 MH> Thanks Fran, may your days be filled with feathers.  If I get any new
 MH> info I will be sure to post it.
Well, I tried. At the "round table...book signing", I went up to John 
Stoodley 
and asked him how many sub species of Napes there were in the wild. His 
answer 
was fairly brief..."Didn't you read my book?" Duhhhh. He did mumbles another 
sentence, which was hard to hear because there was a fellow pulling on his 
arm trying to get his undivided attention. He definately got mine.
So, I am sitting in fron of my little PC with Stoodleys book propped in front 
of me and I shall quote to you from it.
A. ochrocephala auropalliata. Yellow Naped Amazon. Occurs to the south of 
Mexico and substitutes A. ochrocephala oratrix. Its distribution is in the 
states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, without mining with the populations of A. o. 
oratrix. It inhabits the jungles along the coast, while the previous species 
inhabits rain forests to the north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca 
and 
Chiapas. General coloring of A. o. auropalliata is of a lighter green, the 
yellow colour in the head restricted to the neck although as in the casw of 
A.o. oratrix there exist a great variation in this respect. Some parrots 
present a narrow band while others, the yellow extends to a good part of the 
neck. Some A.o.auropallita have a yellow color or the forhead and in the 
neck. 
Some indididuals cannot be differentiated from the subspecies called A. o. 
panamensis.
When he was yanked away from me the words that I heard coming thru were about 
parvipes. His talk was fairly general, covering most of the Amazon family. 
But 
he did mention that birds in the wild do not pick a mate that according to 
the 
way we would pick one for them. Where the species overlap there is matings of 
one species to another. I guess that you couldn't get subspecies if this 
didn't happen. 
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