228 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



flanks, and thighs bright yellowish green, passing into still more 

 yellowish green on under tail-coverts — all the feathers of the under 

 parts (except under tail-coverts and thighs) margined terminaUy 

 with black, forming rather broad bars; under wing-coverts bright 

 yellowish green (often suffused mth light brownish red), narrowly 

 tipped with black; under primary coverts and under surface of 

 remiges bright light bluish green (verdigris to beryl green), the 

 primaries, however, with distal portion (extensively) and a broad 

 space next to shaft blackish slate or dusky; biU dark horn color, 

 more yellowish on sides of maxilla (beneath nostrils) ; iris reddish ; '^ 

 legs and feet brovm;'^ length (skins), 415-432 (426); wing, 272-281 

 (277.7); tail, 163.5-176 (170.5); culmen, 32.5-36 (34.2); tarsus, 

 25.5-28 (27); outer anterior toe, 35-36 (35.7).'' 



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

 distinguishable, but apparently averaging decidedly duller in colora- 

 tion; length (skins), 415-445 (428.3) ; wing, 269-283 (274); tail, 170- 

 172 (170.7); culmen, 32-34.5 (33.2); tarsus, 25-27 (26.2); outer 

 anterior toe, 35.5-36 (35.8).* 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



Psittacus versicolor Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 78 ("Havana"; based on 

 Perroquet, de la Havane Daubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 360). — Bechstein, Lathams 

 TJebers. Vog., i, 1793, 209, 701.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 23 and note 

 (app.), p. 6.— ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 365. — Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt., 1820, 22.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., PMla., 1864, 240 (crit. 

 nomencl.). 



Ps[ittacus] versicolor Bechstein, Kurze Uebers., 1811, 78. 



[Chrysotis] versicolor Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8344. — Cory, List Birds 

 West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20 (Santa Lucia). — Forbes and Robin- 

 son, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 13. 



C[hrysotis] versicolor Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627 (Santa Lucia). 



Chrysotis versicolor Sclater, Ibis, 1881, 414; 1889, 565; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1889, 327, 395.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 463 (synonymy; descr.); Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 186.— Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 276; Ibis, 1906, 643. 



Androglossa versicolor Reichenow, Journ, fiir Orn., 1881, 369 (monogr.); Consp. 

 Psitt., 1882, 209; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 121. 



Amazona versicolor Cory, Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 11, 101, 133. — Clark 

 (A. H.), Auk xxu, 1905, 344; West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183.— Roths- 

 child, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15. 



[Amazona\ versicolor Sharpe, Hand-List, ii, 1900, 20. 



Psittacus cyano rynchus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 22 (based on Perroquet 

 de la Havane Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 360). 



C[hrysotis] cyanorhynchus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 20. 



Chrysotis cyanorhyncha Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 84. 



Amazona cyanorhyncha Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 50; 

 no. 38 (Revue), 1874, 26. 



« H. Selwyn Branch, on labels of specimens. 

 ^ Three specimens. 



