592 PSITTACIDA. 
nape-feathers is not quite so pronounced as in more southern examples. On the whole, 
it seems better to assign these intermediate specimens to C. salvini rather than to 
C. autumnalis. 
Young birds of C. autumnalis show no yellow suborbital patch, and old birds often 
have this patch of a nearly pure scarlet; and scarlet feathers are often freely mixed 
with the green ones surrounding the bare chin. The latter features are not observable 
in the southern form. 
Mr. Ridgway, in writing to us on the birds of these forms in the United States 
National Museum, describes the same intermediate characters between C. autumnalis 
and C. salvini. Count Salvadori, when describing the latter bird, seems to have had 
the true C. diademata more in view, as for a long time C. salvini was considered to 
belong to that species. But C. diademata (apparently a rare bird) differs distinctly in 
the colouring of the lores, which are of a “ deep purple-red.” 
C. autumnalis is a common species in the lowlands of the forest-region of Vera Paz, 
Where it may be seen in numerous flocks in the same districts as C. guatemale. 
Domesticated birds of this Parrot are commonly seen about the houses of Vera Paz, as 
its tameness and readiness in learning words render it a great favourite. 
10. Chrysotis salvini. 
Chrysotis viridigenalis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p- 298 (nec Cassin)’; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 368°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 131°; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 3654. 
Chrysotis autumnalis, Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 365°. 
Chrysotis diademata, Salv. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 214°; Ibis, 1870, p.113"; 1871, pp. 97 °, 251°; Lawr. 
Ibis, 1871, p. 250"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8, 1879, p. 5388"; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. 
p. 407, 
Amazona diademata, Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 124”. 
Chrysotis salvini, Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p- 800, t. 7. f.3%. 
Amazona salvini, Richmond, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 519”, 
C. autumnali similis, sed genis plerumque omnino viridibus, fronte angustiore coccinea, plumis cervicis posticee 
omnibus lilacino subterminatis, rectricibus lateralibus in pogonio interno ad basin plaga coccinea notatis. 
(Descr. exempl. typ. ex Panama. Mus. nostr. ) 
Hab. Nicaracva, Matagalpa, San Emilio (W. B. Richardson), Greytown, R. Escondido 
(Richmond '*), Los Sabalos (Nutting #2); Costa Rica, San José? (v. Frantzius 5, 
Carmiol), Peje (Carmiol), Talamanca (Gabb,U. S. Nat. Mus.), Jimenez (Zeledon 1) ; 
Panama, Calovevora, Bugaba (Arcé®), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan 2}.—CotomBia!; Rio 
NeEeRo VALLEY, | 
as already stated under C. autwmnalis, we restrict the title of C. salvini to the bird 
found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, though specimens from the first-named 
country nearly all have intermediate characters, and some of those from Costa Rica. 
We have many specimens of this bird from Nicaragua, sent us by Mr. Richardson 
from Matagalpa and San Emilio at the southern end of the lake. Mr. Richmond says 
it is common on the Escondido and at Greytown, and that the iris is orange. 
