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of Nuevo Leon, and from various places all through the State of Tamaulipas. It thus 
appears to be abundant to within a short distance of the Rio Grande. 
Its nearest ally is C. finschi of Western Mexico, but it may readily be distinguished 
by the entirely red crown of the adult birds, the wide black margins to the feathers of 
the hind neck, and other points mentioned above. 
9. Chrysotis autumnalis. 
The Lesser Green Parrot, Edw. Birds, iv. p. 164, t. 164°. 
Psitiacus autumnalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1477; Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vig. p. 1 (cf. J. f. Orn. 
1863, p. 54)*. 
Chrysotis autumnalis, Scl. P.Z. 8. 1857, p. 205*; 1859, p. 389°; Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 59°; 
Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 4017; P. Z.S. 1870, p. 837°; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 98°; Lawr. 
Ibis, 1871, p. 250"; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 361; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238"; 
Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 163°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, pp. 241 '*, 373"; 
1890, p. 88 *°; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 8302". 
Viridis, fronte late, loris et speculo alari coccineis, pilei et cervicis postices plumis ad basin viridibus, nigro 
terminatis, illis fascia lilacina subterminali notatis, his plerumque tantum nigro terminatis: subtus 
pallidior, genis viridibus, plaga magna suborbitali lutea ; alis nigris cyaneo lavatis, remigibus extus 
viridibus, secundariis cyaneo-nigro terminatis ; cauda viridi, luteo-viridi terminata, rectricibus lateralibus 
in pogonio interno ad basin luteis vix coccineo notatis; rostro pallide corneo; pedibus plumbeis. Long. 
tota circa 14:0, ale 8-3, caude 4°5, rostri culminis 1°3, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. maris ex Colipa, Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe*), Tamaulipas, Tampico, Tamesi, Tantina (W. B. Richardson), 
Tierra Caliente of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast'*), Jalapa (de Oca, Hoge), Colipa 
(Ff. D. G.), Potrero (Sumichrast }*), Plan del Rio, San José Acateno (Ferrari- 
Perez 8), Vega del Casadero (M. Trujillo), Playa Vicente (Boucard*, M. Trujillo), 
Barrio (Sumichrast'°); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GuatTEMa.a, 
Choctum, Las Salinas (0. S. & F. D. @.°) ; Honpuras, Ruatan I. (G. F. Gaumer 18), 
Omoa (Leyland °), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely§). 
Mexican and Guatemalan specimens of this Parrot are readily distinguished from 
those of the more southern form from Nicaragua to Panama by the presence in the 
adult bird of a large patch of yellow feathers beneath the eye. The feathers of the 
back of the neck are, for the most part, destitute of the lilac subterminal band, the red 
of the forehead is wide, and the outer tail-feathers seldom have any red on the inner 
web near the base. In the typical C. sa/vznt from Panama the cheeks are wholly green, 
and the feathers of the nape and back of the neck, besides their black edge, have a lilac 
subterminal band ; the red of the forehead is narrow, and there is a large red patch on 
the inner web of the outer rectrices. 
These distinguishing characters are not constant in birds from Nicaragua and Costa 
Rica, many of which are certainly intermediate. Thus, a small suborbital yellow patch, 
not always symmetrical, is not unfrequently seen. The subterminal lilac band of the 
