584 PSITTACIDZ. 
Twelve species are found in our region, of which no less than eight occur in Mexico, 
no other of the divisions of the country possessing more than four. 
The species of Chrysotis found within our limits may readily be divided into two 
groups by the presence or absence of a scarlet speculum on the wing. ‘Ten species 
have this speculum, but it is wanting in the two small species, C. albifrons and 
C. albilora. 
We continue to use the name Chrysotis for these Parrots, and in doing so we have 
the high authority of Count Salvadori. Mr. Ridgway, in employing Amazona of 
Lesson in a generic sense, gives it a value not originally intended by its author, and 
not used by him as a full genus title until ten years after Chrysotis had been 
introduced, 
As is the case in Pionus, Chrysotis has no tufted oil-gland, which is present in 
Pionopsittacus, the only other genus of Pionine found in our region. Its members 
may be distinguished from those of Pionus by their longer, wider tails and by the 
under tail-coverts being always green. 
a. Species majores, speculo alari coccineo ornati. 
1. Chrysotis guatemale. 
Psitiacus, sp. n. ex Guatemala, Hartl. Verz. Brem. Samml. p. 871. 
Chrysotis, sp.?, Moore, P.Z. 8. 1859, p. 59°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 188°. 
Chrysotis guatemale, Hartl. Mus. Brem.; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 44°; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837°; 
Scl. P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 253°, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 562, t. 47; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 98 
(partim)"; Lawr. Ibis, 1871, p. 250°; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 279 ©. 
Chrysotis farinosa, Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238". 
Viridis, pileo toto ceruleo, plumis singulis partis postice et cervicis nigro terminatis, genis et corpore subtus 
viridibus vix flavescente tinctis ; speculo alari coccineo, remige primo nigro, reliquis in pogonio externo 
ad basin saturate viridibus, secundariis cyaneo terminatis : alis subtus saturate viridibus, remigibus extus 
nigris ; cauda viridi, fascia lata terminali pallide viridi-flava ; rostro corneo ; pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 
circa 15-0, ale 9°5, caudee 5-5, rostri culminis 1°8, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex R. de la Pasion, Guate- 
mala. Mus. nostr.) 
mari similis. 
Hab. Mexico1®, Orizaba (Sallé ®), Potrero near Cordova, Chimalapa (Sumichrast 11) , 
3 
Guatemala (Mus. Bremen'), R. de la Pasion, Choctum (0.8. &d FD. G ); 
_ LY. G.); 
Honpuras, Omoa (Leyland ?**), San Pedro (G. UM. Whitely 4), 
A supposed young bird in Mr. Sclater’s collection obtained by Leyland at Omoa 2, but 
which Count Salvadori considers adult, was the first indication we had of the existence 
of this species*. On a second example being seen by Mr. Sclater in the Bremen 
Museum with Dr. Hartlaub’s name C. guatemale attached to it1, the bird was described 
under that title in 18603. 
The species belongs to a section of large green Parrots of which (C. farinosa is the 
oldest known form; from this it differs in having the metacarpal edge of the wing 
green instead of red. The next species (C. virenticeps) is its nearest ally, and the two 
