BROTOGERYS.—CHRYSOTIS. 583 
(Laylor’) ; Nicaragua, Omotepe I.2!, San Juan del Sur 2° (Nutting), San Carlos 
(Lichmond ?*), Chinandega, San Emilio (W. B. ftichardson) ; Costa Rica, Nicoya 
(v. Frantzius'), Puntarenas, San Mateo (Zeledon 22), La Palma (Nutting 18), 
Bebedero (Arcé14, Underwood 24), Miravalles (Underwood?4), San Carlos 
(Boucard"); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui!’, Mina de Chorcha, Bugaba }8, 
Calovevora (Arcé), Lion Hill (MLeannan®*), Paraiso Station (Hughes).— 
Cotompzia !6, 
_BLrotogerys jugularis belongs to the short-tailed section of the genus, and its distin- 
guishing features, taken as a whole together, are the absence of a yellow patch on the 
sinciput, its rather long bill, its green cheeks, and orange chin. ‘Ihe primary-coverts 
are blue, not yellow, the upper wing-coverts are tinged with brown, and the under 
wing-coverts yellow. 
Its range seems to be exclusively restricted to the western tropical parts of Central 
America from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where it is common, through the coast- 
region of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua (abundant at San Juan del Sur 
and on the island of Omotepe), and Costa Rica, bordering the Pacific Ocean. Passing 
along the Isthmus of Panama it occurs in Northern Colombia in the Cauca Valley, and 
is found in the trade collections sent from Bogota, the skins being probably obtained 
from the valley of the Magdalena. 
Of the habits of this species there seems little to record. We found it in the 
lowlands of the Pacific coast, associating in flocks, and having the usual habits of the 
smaller members of the family. 
Lawrence’s Pstttovius subceruleus?> was based upon a bluish individual of this 
species shot by M‘Leannan from a flock of the ordinary form. Though recognized 
as a distinct species by Dr. Finsch, and figured in his work 2°, there can be no 
doubt the type is only an abnormally-coloured specimen of B. yugularis. No similar 
specimens have been since seen !, 
CHRYSOTIS. 
Psittacus (Amazona), Lesson, Traité d’Orn. p. 189 (1831). 
Chrysotis, Swainson, Classif. Birds, 11. p. 800 (1837) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 268. 
Amazona, Lesson, Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 194 (1847); Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 587. 
The genus Chrysotis is the largest of the order in South America, containing, 
according to Count Salvadori, forty-two species. Many of these species are numerous 
in individuals, so that this group of Parrots is a marked feature in the bird-fauna of 
the hotter parts of Central and South America, and is represented by several very striking 
forms in some of the West-Indian Islands. The northern limit of the range of Chrysotis 
reaches to that of the Neotropical region in Northern Mexico, and in the south it 
extends to South Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 
