588 PSITTACID A. 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe?), Tres Marias Is. (Graysun'°}*, Forrer), Rio Tupila, R. de 
Coahuyana (Xantus }2), Villa Grande in Nuevo Leon (/. B. Armstrong), Sierra 
Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Aldama (W. B. Richardson), Tierra Caliente of 
Vera Cruz (Sumichrast \4), Rio Grande, Playa Vicente (Boucard®), Santana }, 
Rio Rancho Nuevo, Alvarado (Ferrari-Perez), Barrio, Petapa (Sumichrast 18) ; 
British Honpuras, Belize (O. S.) ; Honpuras, Ruatan I. (G. &. Gaumer 1%), Yojoa 
(G. C. Taylor >). 
The amount of yellow on the head and neck of different specimens of this Parrot 
varies greatly, probably due to the age of each individual bird. A specimen from the 
Tres Marias Islands has the entire head and neck yellow, and yellow feathers mixed 
with red ones on the bend of the wing. Some specimens from Aldama in Tamaulipas 
have yellow feathers irregularly scattered over the breast and abdomen. 
The range of Chrysotis levaillanti in Mexico is wide and extends along both the 
Atlantic and Pacific coasts—on the lowlands bordering the former well into the frontier 
States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, and on the latter to the Tres Marias Islands, 
where the late Col. Grayson found it in considerable numbers when he first visited the 
islands in 1865. But it was much less common in 1867, the woodcutters who frequented 
the islands having in the meantime captured and transported for sale at Mazatlan and 
elsewhere on the mainland large numbers of birds, which realized prices varying from 
one to five dollars each 1. 
When first visited, the birds of the Marias were exceedingly tame, and they could be 
easily caught by passing a string with running-noose attached to a slender pole over 
their heads as they were feeding or sitting on the trees. They, however, soon became 
shy and even difficult of approach. 
The nests of this Parrot seen by Grayson were all in the hollows of large trees, and 
he was only able“tg reach one in a tree known as “ Palo prieto.” The two eggs lay 
upon the bare rotten wood in a slight depression. They were pure white, a good deal 
larger than those of a tame pigeon and of an elliptical form. 
Xantus records !” this species from the Rio Tupila and the Rio de Coahuyana on the 
mainland, but possibly these birds may have been brought from the Marias Islands. 
On the east coast Mr. Armstrong obtained specimens for us near Villa Grande in 
Nuevo Leon, and Mr. Richardson a good series from various parts of Southern 
Tamaulipas, the bird being apparently especially common near Aldama, a little to the 
northward of Tampico; thence it is found southwards throughout the hotter parts 
of the State of Vera Cruz. 
Count Salvadori continues to use Gray’s name, Chrysotis levaillanti, for this species, 
though the specific title was previously applied to an African Peocephalus by Lesson, 
and placed with his American species of Amazona. For this reason Mr. Ridgway 
renamed our bird Amazona oratrix }8, 
