Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 179 



Conurus evofs Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 297 (1S66) ; ib. 

 J. f. O. 1874, p. 164; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VIII, p. 229 

 (1878). 

 EvopsUta guyajiensis Gray, Handl. Bds. II, 146 (1S70). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage green, dark above, light beneath ; the 

 head dotted here and therewith small touches of bright red; this 

 marking does not seem at all constant; a broad patch of vermillion 

 red on the under wing-coverts, extending upon the carpus; shafts of 

 wing and tail-feathers brownish black ; bare skin around the eye 

 bluish white. 



The sexes are apparently similar. 



Length (skin). 9.75; wing, 5.50; tail, 5.50; tarsus, .50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Conurus xantholaemus Scl. 



Connrtis xantkolcEinus Scl. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. IV, p. 225 ; ib. Cat. 

 Am. Bds. p. 348 (1862). — A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 374- — 

 Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i860, p. 377. — Taylor., Ibis, 

 1864, p. 171.— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 148 (1870).— Cab. J. f O. 

 1879, p. 222.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (18S5). 



Conurus xanthogenius Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 112 (1873). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Forehead, sides of the head and chin bright orange; 

 rest of upper surface bright green; underparts yellowish green, 

 marked with orange on the belly and abdomen; primaries blue, 

 showing green on the outer webs, and having the shafts and tips 

 brown; upper surface of tail green; under surface of tail 3'ellow; bill 

 dark. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 9.50; wing, 6; tail, 5; tarsus, .35; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. St. Thomas and St. Croix. 



Conurus nanus (Vic). 



Psitiacara nana ViG. Zool. Journ. V, p. 273 (1830). — Lear, Parr. pi. 12. 



— Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 640 (1832). 

 Conurus nanus Gv.x\,GQn. Bds. II, No. 32 (1844-49). — SouANCt, Icon. 



Perr. pl. 12. fig. i. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 203. — Scl. Cat. Am. 



Bds. p. 349 (1862). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1803, p. 284. 



— FiNSCH, Die Papag. Mon. Bearb. I. p. 520 (1867). — Gray, Handl. 



Bds. II, p. 148 (1S70). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. H2 



(1873). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. no (18S1). — Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (1885). 

 Conurus Jiavivenier GossK, Bds. Jam. p. 263 (1847). 



