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(the latter between the green band and the black tip) ; back, scapulars, 

 wmgs, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright parrot green (more 

 yellowish green on secondaries and upper tail-coverts), the more 

 anterior scapulars and interscapulai-s very narrowly and indistinctly 

 margined terminally with black; two outermost (distal) secondaries 

 with outer web largely dull red (between dull vermilion and poppy 

 red), margined internally and terminally with dull brown and prox- 

 imally with yellowish, the third with an elongated space of reddish 

 brown on middle portion of outer web; longer primaries with distal 

 half (approximately) blackish brown, faintly glossed (in part) with 

 bronzy olive; tail with basal half (more or less) green, except lateral 

 rectrices, the distal portion purplish brown, inclining to coppery 

 bronze on outer webs in certain lights, rather indistinctly tipped with 

 vinaceous or vinaceous-pink, the middle pair of rectrices with green 

 on outer side of terminal portion on both webs; chest, breast and 

 abdomen vinaceous-pmk or light wine purple, glossed with lilac 

 superficially, dusky olive glossed with bronze-greenish beneath 

 surface, the feathers margined terminally with black, producing 

 narrow bars; sides, flanks, and thighs green, the feathers glossed at 

 tips with light greenish blue; under tail-coverts yellowish green with 

 terminal portion more yellowish olive, the longer ones indistinctly 

 margined at tip with bluish; under wing-coverts bright parrot green 

 tipped with light bluish green or greenish blue; carpo-metacarpal 

 edge of wing vermilion or poppy red; under surface of primaries clear 

 parrot green, the primaries with distal half (more or less) and a space 

 next to shaft dull blackish slate or slate-blackish; bill dark horn 

 color, paler basally; iris red;" legs and feet dusky (brown in life);<^ 

 length (skins), 463-512 (486); wing, 285-305 (292.7); tail, 173.5- 

 182.5 (177.1); cuhnen, 36.5-41.5 (39.2); tarsus, 29-31.5 (30.9); outer 

 anterior toe, 34.5-39 (36.4). ^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and perhaps not always 

 distinguishable, but apparently averaging slightly duller in colora- 

 tion; length (skins), 455-470 (463); wing, 285-292 (289); tail, 162- 

 186 (175.8); cuhnen, 36-39.5 (38.2); tarsus, 29.5-31 (30.2); outer 

 anterior toe, 36-38 (37.2).*^ 



Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles (base of Morne Diablo tin; 

 Basinville; watershed between Lagon and Medville Hall). 



Psittacus havanensis (not of GmeUn) Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 79 ("Mexico"). 



Ps[iUacus] havanensis Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 746. 



Psittacus augustus (not of Shaw, 1792) <^ Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., part iv, 

 no. xlv, Jan. 16, 1837, 80 ("South America;" coll. Zool. Gardens, Lond.); 

 Isis, 1838, 195.— BouRjOT, Perr., 1837-38, pi. 63.— Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 

 pi. 104.— Gulliver, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 102; 1875, 489. 



O' H. Selwyn-Branch, on labels of specimens. 



^ Eight specimens. 



c Three specimens. 



^ =Anodorhynchu$ hyacinthinus (Latham) Gray. 



