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green, the under surface of primaries, for proximal portion greenish blue 

 (verditer or dull cerulean), the distal portion, as well as a broad stripe 

 next to shaft, dull blackish slate or slate-black; bill light yellomsh 

 horn color, more or less suffused with dusky horn color, the maxillary 

 unguis wholly of the latter color; feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 386-426 (406); wing, 250-263 (256.5); tail, 151-159 (155); 

 cuhnen, 31-34.5 (32.7); tarsus, 24.5-25 (24.7); outer anterior toe, 

 34-34.5 (34.2).« 



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

 distinguishable, but usually slightly duller in coloration, sometimes 

 without trace of red on foreneck; length (skins), 375-405 (393); 

 wing, 244-258 (251.8); tail, 147-156 (149.8); culmen, 30.5-34 (32.1); 

 tarsus, 23-25 (23.8); outer anterior toe, 30.5-36 (32.6).* 



Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles. 



PsiWacus arauszacMS MuLLER, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1766, 79 (Dominica; based on Blue- 

 faced Parrot Edwards, Birds, pi. 230; type in coll. "Mr. Lemman, of Bishops- 

 gate street, London"). 



[Chrysotis] arausiaca Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8339. 



[Psittacus autumnalis] 13 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 345 (based on Crick 

 a tete bleue Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 230; Blue-faced Green Parrot Edwards, 

 Gleanings, pi. 230).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 124. 



Psittacus bouqueti Bechstein, Kurze Uebers., 1811, 99 (based on Le Perroquet 

 Bouquet Levaillant, ii, 104, pi. 135).— Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 76.— 

 Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1826, 101. — Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 

 pi. 54. 



Ps[ittacus\ bouqueti Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 593, 717. 



C[hrysotis] bouqueti Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 422. — Sclater, Prcc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1881, 627 (Dominica). 



Chrysotis bouqueti Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151; Naumannia, 

 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 96).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacid*, 1859, 

 81.— FiNscH, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 555.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 266, 

 footnote.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627; 1889, 326, 327; Ibis, 

 1881, 412, 414; 1889, 565.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 462 (synonymy; descr.); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 185.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 277; 

 Ibis, 1906, 643; 1907, 365, in text (not extinct, but still numerous). 



[Chi-ysotis] bouqueti Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20. — 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 13. 



Androglossa bouqueti Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 370 (monogr.); Consp. 

 Psitt., 1882, 210; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 122. 



Amazona bouqueti Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 101, 133. — Verrill 

 (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Ac. Arts and Sci., viii, 1892, 328 (habits; crit.).— 

 Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15. — Clark (A. H.), Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 344. 



[Amazona] bouqueti Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 20. 



Psittacus cxrulifrons Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, 1811, 515 ("Guiana"). — Cuvier, 

 R^gne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 464, footnote.— Voigt, Cuv. Uebers., 1831, 741. 



(?) Psittacus autumnalis, var. Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 326. 



P[sittacus] cyaneocapillus YiBJLLOT, Tabl. Enc. M6th., iii, 1823, 1373, pi. 229, fig. 1 

 ("Guiana"). — Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 186, footnote. 



°' Two specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



