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natural history of the New World, and is the only modern naturalist 

 who has explored the still imperfectly-known zoology of the island 

 which it inhabits. 



The true Chrysotis leucocephala is figured in Edwards's ' Glean- 

 ings/ vol. iv. pi. 166, as " The White-fronted Farroty'' and by Buifon 

 in the * Planches Enluminees ' as the " Peri'oquet a front hlanc du 

 S6negaW* and '' Perroquet de la Martinique,'''' nos. 335 and 549. 

 It is also well represented by Le Vaillant as the male of "' Le Per- 

 roquet a face rouge'" (pi. 107 et 107 bis). It is included in the 

 revised list of Cuban birds lately published in Cabanis' Journal ; and 

 specimens in the collection of the Academy of Philadelphia were 

 procured by Mr. Richard Taylor in that island. 



Examples of this bird likewise occur in the British Museum, and 

 there is a specimen now living in the Society's gardens. 



The Chrysotis Sallcei is figured by Buifon in his * Planches En- 

 luminees,' no. 548, as the '* Perroquet a ventre pourpre de la Mar- 

 tinique.''' Specimens collected by M. Salle in San Domingo are in 

 the British Museum and at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and 

 there are two fine examples now living in the Society's gardens. 



There is likewise living in the Society's gardens an example of 

 another nearly allied species of Parrot, which has also been some- 

 times confounded with the true Chrysotis leucocephala. This is 

 the Red-fronted Parrot {Chrysotis vittata), figured in the 'Planches 

 Enluminees' under the title of ^^ Perroquet de S. Domingue," and 

 often called by Gmelin's specific name ** dominie ensis." It is not, 

 however, as far as I know, found in the island of Dominica, but in 

 Puerto Rico, whence examples, now in the Museum of the Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris, were transmitted by Mauge. Le Vaillant has re- 

 presented this bird as the female of his " Perroquet a face rouge." 



Mr. Gosse's Psittacus leucocephalus from Jamaica, of which there 

 is one specimen in the British Museum, seems different again, and 

 ought probably to bear the name Chrysotis vinaceicollis ; the bird 

 described by M. de Lafresnaye as Pionus vinaceicollis (Rev. Zool. 

 1846, p. 321) being probably intended for the young of this; but 

 a larger series of examples is perhaps requisite to confirm this 

 species. 



It is very interesting to notice how the different islands of the 

 Antilles are thus tenanted by distinct, though corresponding, species 

 of Parrots : — Cuba by Chrysotis leucocephala and Co7iurus guia- 

 nensis* (?), Jamaica bv Chrysotis vinaceicollis and Conurus nanus, 

 Puerto Rico by Chrysotis vittata and Conurus Maugceif, and San 

 Domingo by Chrysotis Sallcei and Conurus chloi'opterusX- 



While upon the subject of Parrots, I may add some notes taken 

 during a late inspection of specimens of these birds in several mu- 

 seums. 



Prince Bonaparte, in one of his last f)apers, proposed to call the 



* Probably not tbe true guianensis of Guiana, but so called bv Cabanis, Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1856, p. 106. 



t Psitiacara maugcei, Souance, Ilev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 59. 

 + Psiitacara c hloropier a, Souauce, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 59. 



