CHRYSOTIS. 589 
7. Chrysotis finschi. 
Chrysotis viridigenalis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 230 (nec Cassin) *. 
Chrysotis finschi, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2987; 1874, p. 206, t. 34°; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 97°; 
Lawr. Ibis, 1871, p. 250°; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 296°; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
no. 4, p. 877; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 242°; 
Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 298”. 
Amazona finschi, Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 786". 
Viridis, subtus pallidior, cervicis postice plumis (late), dorsi (stricte) et corporis totius subtus nigro terminatis, 
plumulis circum oculos nigris, pileo et nucha ceruleis, hujus plumis stricte nigro terminatis, loris et fronte 
saturate coccineis, genis et regione auriculari lete viridibus immaculatis; speculo alari coccineo; alis 
cyaneo-nigris, ad basin viridibus, subtus oleagineo-viridibus, remigibus nigro terminatis, tectricibus pallide 
viridibus ; cauda viridi, tectricibus lateralibus ad apicem lutescentibus ; rostro flavicante ; pedibus carneis. 
Long. tota circa 13-0, alee 8-0, caudee 4:8, rostri culminis 1:6, tarsi 0-75. (Descr. maris ex Mazatlan, 
Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis. 
Hab. Mexico ! ?, Choix, Culebra in Sinaloa (W. Lloyd), Mazatlan (Grayson °, Forrer), 
Presidio de Mazatlan (forrer), San Blas in Tepic (W. B. Richardson), Rio de la 
Ameria (Xantus°), Beltran in Jalisco (W. Lloyd, Jouy™), Putla (Rébouch*), 
Ventosa, Zanatepec, Tehuantepec’ (Sumichrast ®). 
This distinct Chrysotis is characteristic of Western Mexico, and according to 
Grayson ® inhabits the tierra caliente between the mountains and the Pacific from 
Southern Sonora to Tehuantepec, being especially abundant near Mazatlan. He goes 
on to say that the forests in some localities, particularly when certain fruits are in 
season, appear at times to be alive with them, but only in the morning and evening 
when they are seeking their favourite food; they then fly hither and thither through 
the woods, perching and climbing amongst the branches of the trees which bear the 
fruit, keeping up at the same time an incessant din, which, with the loud and harsh 
screams of the large green Macaws, produces a very discordant and disagreeable forest 
music. They often visit the cornfields or milpas in great numbers about the time the 
green corm or maize commences to mature, committing great depredations, and even 
destroying small milpas unless watched. 
Young birds if taken from the nest when unfledged may be taught to pronounce 
some words very distinctly and to whistle tunes. The season of incubation begins in 
the latter part of March or early in April, at which time birds quietly divide off into 
pairs and seek a hollow in some large tree, where they deposit their eggs on the bare 
rotten wood, which is smoothed a little by the birds, both parents taking equal parts 
in the task of incubation. The eggs, two in number, are clear white, and the young 
are fed by the old birds some time after they can fly. The pair from the same nest 
generally remain together through life*. By an extraordinary provision of nature, it 
* This is hardly likely to be the case; but it is much more probable that birds once paired remain together 
for life, and it is these pairs that make up the constituents of a flock. 
