594 PSITTACID. 
In Western Mexico, Grayson says, it is found in the warmer regions, and is found in 
the same localities as C. finschi, though each species keeps in distinct flocks. It isa 
bird easily domesticated when young, and readily learns to pronounce words; it is 
therefore a great favourite with the natives. 
12. Chrysotis xantholora. 
Chrysotis zantholora, G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1859)*; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 354’; 
1871, p. 97°; 1874, p.327*; 1885, pp. 186°, 192°; Lawr. Ibis, 1871, p. 251"; Scl. P.Z.S. 
1875, p. 157, t. 26°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 455°; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. 
p. 577°; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p.373"'; 1890, p. 88**; Salvad, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xx. p. 313”, 
Viridis, plumis corporis omnibus nigro distincte marginatis, tectricibus supracaudalibus luteo-viridibus, pileo 
toto summo albo, postice ceeruleo limbato, loris luteis, oculorum ambitu reliquo coccineo, regione auriculari 
nigro ; alis nigris, remigibus in pogonio externo ad basin viridibus ad apicem cyaneis, secundariis cyaneis, 
tectricibus majoribus et humeris coccineis; cauda viridi, ad apicem lutescente, rectricibus externis ad 
apicem coccineis; rostro flavo ; pedibus carneis. Long. tota circa 10-0, ale 6-9, caude 3°5, rostri culminis 
1-25, tarsi 0-6. (Descr. exempl. ex Cozumel I., Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
9 pileo summo cerulea, parte antica solum alba, tectrice majore tertia tantum coccinea, reliquis viridibus, 
humeris viridibus et colore coccineo circum oculos vix obvio a mare differt. 
flab. Mexico, N. Yucatan (Cabot 4), Merida, Izamal, Cozumel I. (G. £. Gaumer 1 12) ; 
British Honpuras (Dyson+), Orange Walk (G. F. Gaumer). 
Though this species has a general resemblance to C. albifrons, it has many points of 
difference. The lores are yellow instead of scarlet, the ear-coverts black, the bastard- 
wing green, the shoulders scarlet, and the black margins to the feathers of the body 
more distinct. 
Though Kuhl seems to have seen a specimen of this bird as early as 1820, and 
Dr. 8. Cabot obtained one during his visit to Yucatan with Stephens in 1841-2 (which 
Salvin saw in his collection in Boston in 1874), it was not until 1859 that G. R. Gray 
named it from a specimen pbtained by Dyson in Honduras. When the ornithology of 
Yucatan became better known, chiefly through the exertions of Dr. Gaumer, 
C xantholora was found to be not uncommon in the northern part of that country, 
where it occurs with C. aldifrons, but in much smaller numbers. On the island of 
Cozumel it is very abundant, judging from the series of skins Dr. Gaumer sent us 
trom there after his visit in 1887-8. The same collector afterwards secured a specimen 
at Orange Walk in British Honduras. In Guatemala and the rest of Central America 
C. xantholora seems quite unknown. 
PIONUS. 
Pionus, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. p. 497 (1832) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 321. 
Pionias, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 366. 
The short, nearly even tail, and the invariably red under tail-coverts in all the 
