BIKDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 231 



[Chrysotis] cyanocephalus Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301 (baaed on Le 

 Peroquet Bouquet Levaillant, pi. 135). 



Chrysotis nichollsi Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., iii, Sept. 4, 1880, 254 (island 

 of Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 256 (habits). — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627 (crit.); Ibis, 1881, 413 (crit.).— Reichenow 

 and ScHALOw, Journ. fur Om., 1883, 417 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



AMAZONA MARTINICANA A. H. Clark. 



MARTINIQUE PARROT. 



Similar to A. arausiaca, but top of head slate color with a slight 

 mtermixture of red. 



Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



Psittacus leucocephalits var. Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 332 

 (Martinique). 



Amazona martinicana Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, Oct., 1905, 343 (ex. Labat, 

 Nouveau Voy. aux Isles de TAmerique, ii, 1742, 214, 344). — Rothschild, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15; Extinct Birds, 1907, 57, pi. 18.a 



Chrysotis martinicana Salvadori, Ibis, Oct., 1906, 643. 



AMAZONA AUROPALLIATA (Lesson). 



YELLOW-NAPED PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum light green (varying from clear yel- 

 lowish green to light oriental green), sometimes (in older individuals ?) 

 with a spot or patch of chrome yellow on median portion of forehead, 

 sometimes extended to middle of crown, the green passing on occiput 

 and upper part of nape into deeper yellowish green; lower nape and 

 whole hindneck light cadmium yellow ; general color of rest of upper 

 parts clear bright yellowish parrot green, the scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars with very indistinct broken black terminal margins, the 

 wing-coverts (especially greater ones) and proximal secondaries indis- 

 tinctly edged with lighter yellowish green or greenish yellow, the 

 upper tail-coverts much lighter and brighter green (bright yellow 

 green, cosse green, or neva green); outer webs of four outermost 

 secondaries mostly pure poppy red (or between poppy and geranium 

 red), passing into yellow on concealed basal portion, the distal por- 

 tion first green (narrov/ly) more or less intermixed or suffused with 

 yellow, then bluish black tinged with dark violet-blue; primaries 

 clear parrot green on proximal half, bluish black tinged with dark 

 violet-blue for distal half, their inner webs dull black or slate-black; 

 basal two-thu'ds (approximately) of tail clear parrot green, the ter- 

 minal third clear hght yellow-green (bright cosse green changing to 

 nearly neva green) ; inner webs of five lateral rectrices (on each side) 

 with basal third (more or less) red and yellow, the red predominating 



'^The colored plate in "Extinct Birds" does not agree with descriptions quoted in 

 the text, the head and neck, all round, being slate colored, with a red patch on center 

 of the crown, and the two outermofat rectrices with outer webs red for their entire 

 length. 



