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dd. With yellow on wings. (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; extinct.) 



Amazona violacea (p. 224). 

 cc. Tail not purplish brown; imder parts not purplish; neck not blackish. 

 d. Plumage more or less orange-brown, at least on imder parts; tail crossed by 

 a broad middle band of blue and gi-een, a broad basal band of orange, and 

 a terminal one of yellow. (Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.) 



Amazona guildingii (p. 225). 

 dd. Plumage without any orange-brown; tail not colored as above. 

 e. Inner webs of rectrices with more or less of red on basal portion. 

 /. Cheeks (as well as forehead, etc.) and under surface of remiges blue, 

 or greenish blue; foreneck with more or less of red. 

 g. Primary coverts blue; under parts of body strongly suffused or inter- 

 mixed with light brownish red. (Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser 



Antilles.) Amazona versicolor (p. 227). 



gg. Primary coverts green; imder parts of body wholly green. 

 h. Pileum green, passing into deep blue on forehead. (Dominica, 



Lesser Antilles.) Amazona arausiaca (p. 229). 



hh. Pileum slate color, with some red on crown. (Martinique, Lesser 



Antilles; extinct.) Amazona martinicana (p. 231). 



ff. Cheeks green or yellow; imder surface of remiges green or bluish green. 



g. Outer webs of distal secondaries and inner webs of outer rectrices 



red, proximally. 



h. Forehead without red (bluish green, sometimes with a yellow 



median spot); adults with a yellow nuchal patch. (Southern 



Mexico to Costa Rica.) Amazona auripalliata (p. 231). 



hh. Forehead red; no yellow on forehead nor nape. {Amazona autum- 

 nalis.) 

 i. Suborbital region yellow (rarely red). (Southeastern Mexico to 

 southern Honduras.) 



Amazona autumnalis autumnalis, adults (p. 234). 

 ii. Suborbital region green. 

 j. Red on basal portion of inner webs of rectrices reduced, indis- 

 tinct, except on outermost. 



Amazona autumnalis autumnalis, yoimg (p. 235). 

 jj. Red on inner webs of rectrices distinct. (Nicaragua to north- 

 em Colombia.) Amazona autumnalis salvini (p. 237). 



gg. Outer webs o^ distal secondaries and inner webs of lateral rectrices 

 orange, proximally. (Colombia to the Guianas, Trinidad, and 

 Amazon Valley.) Amazona amazonica (extralimital).o 



o [Psittacus] amazonicus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 147 (Surinam; based 

 on Psittacus amazonicus Brisson, Om., iv, 257; Psittacus viridis, capite luteo, fronte 

 cxrulea, Fritsch, Av., pi. 47; Ajurucurua, 2, Marcgrave, Bras., 205; Willughby, 

 Orn., 76; Ray, Av. 33). — Psittacus amazonicus Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 45; Brehm, 

 Mon. Papag., 1842, 41, pi. 50. — C[hrysotis\ amazonicus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 

 422. — [Chrysotis] amazonica Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151. — Chrysotis 

 amazonica Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidge, 1859, 78 (Bogota, Colombia, Trini- 

 dad); Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 570; Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1878, pi. 1, fig. 6; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 283. — Amazona amazonica Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 53; Revue, 1874, 27. — {Androglossus\ amazonicus ^wxdQ\al\, 

 Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 69. — Androglossa amazonica Reichenow, Joum. 

 fiir Om., 1881, 377 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 217. — Psittacus amazonius Selby, 

 Naturalists' Libr., Pan-ots, 1836, 103. — Psittacus amazonius Schlegel, Die Dierent., 

 1864, 65.— [Psittacus] luteus (not of Boddaert, 1783) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 

 341 ("America meridionali " ; based on Yellow-shouldered Parrot Latliam, Synopsis 

 Birds, i, pt. i, 288). — [Psittacus] luteolus Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 123 (new name 

 for P. luteus Gmelin). 



