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inner webs of the wings black, those of tlie secondaiies yellowish ; bill 

 pale; female with the forehead yellowish green, 4^ inches long. 



" Iq Museum Leugerianum and ia Paris bird stores." (Translation.) 



The above description does uot apply to any species of Psittacula 



known to me. The St. Thomas given as the habitat may be some island 



of the eastern hemisphere and not the Antilleau islaud of the same 



name. 



4. Psittacula gregaria (Spix). 



Psittacnhts grcffariiis Srix, Av. Bras., i, 1838, 39, pi, 34, figs. 3, 4 (Miuas Geraes, Brazil). 



"Herb-green; wings green, without blue or yellow spots; bill sub- 

 bideutate; tail slightly longer than [/. e., reaching beyond] wings; head 

 of the female j^ellowish. 



" Description : Body hardly larger than that of the preceding [P. 

 xanthopterygius and P. lyasserinns] ; above and below herb-green, the 

 wings above and below, anteriorly, herb-green, below posteriorly mala- 

 chitaceous-blackish ; the remiges greenish on the outer web, blackish 

 on the inner; rump bright green; crissum yellowish; tail reaching 

 slightly beyond wings, very bright green, with rectrices very broad, 

 triangular at tip; bill yellowish, sub-bidentate ; feet dirty whitish. 



" Inhabits, in flocks, the campos of Minas Geraes, the female (per- 

 haps Fsittacus tirica Lath.) with the head yellowish. Two specimens." 

 (Translation.) 



Although Spix expressly says there is no blue on the wing of this 

 bird, the figures, of both male and female, show distinct blue edgings 

 to the primaries, the rest of the outer web being white; the female is 

 represented as having only the sides of the head (lores, orbits, and 

 malar region) yellow, the entire pilenm being deep green, like the back, 

 etc. At least the figures in the copy of the work in the National Mu- 

 seum library are so colored. 



It is impossible to say with certainty what this bird is. I have seen 

 no specimen from the region in question, which may possibly be inhab- 

 ited by a species distinct from the coast bird (P. passerina vivida). It 

 may be a Brotogerys instead of a Psittacula. 



5. Psittacula modesta Cab, 



reittacida modesta Cab. iu Scliomb. Guiaua, iii, 1848, 7::i7 (Brit. Guiaaa). 



^^ Species nova. — A single specimen marked as a male, without any blue, 

 is distinguished from the female of P. passerinus by being of a somewhat 

 larger size and particularly by its broader bill. Forehead and anterior 

 part of the crown, as well as the whole under side, yellowish green ; 

 the green of the upper side is less vivid and darker (similar to that of 

 P. tuipara) ; remiges black. Eump, under wing-coverts, and outer mar- 

 gins of the primaries grass-green; the inner margin of the remiges 

 tinged w^ith dull bluish green. Upper mandible dark brown, lower 

 mandible light. Total length 5 inches 8 lines; wing 3^ inches ; tail 1 

 inch 8 lines ; middle toe, without claw, G| lines." (Translation.) 



