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part of outer web red or mixed red and yellow, the distal half of all 

 green passing tlirough blue into black on terminal portion; proximal 

 portion of primaries green, the distal half, or more, blue and black; 

 four middle pairs of rectrices deep parrot green broadly tipped with 

 light yellowish green; other rectrices with a basal area of clear ver- 

 milion red passing into light salmon-orange on edge of imier web, the 

 middle area (broadly) deep parrot green, the terminal area (still 

 more broadly) light yellowish green, the outer web of outermost 

 rectrix deep blue for basal half or two-thirds, pale greenish blue or 

 bluish green distaUy ; under parts clear light yellowish green, glossed 

 with light bluish green (neiivieder to turquoise green) in certain 

 lights, each feather (except on under tad-coverts and, sometimes, on 

 lower abdomen and posterior part of flanks) margined terminally 

 with black; thighs chrome yellow; smaller under wing-coverts clear 

 light yellowish green, narrowly tipped with black; under primary 

 coverts and under surface of remiges dull light bluish green, the 

 narrowed distal portion of longer primaries and a broad stripe along 

 shaft dusky; bill dull buff; legs and feet dusky brownish (in dried 

 skins). 



Adult female. — ^Length (skin), 325; wing, 210.5; tail, 123; tarsus, 

 22.5; outer anterior toe, 29.5." 



Venezuela, including Margarita Island; Aruba Island, Dutch West 

 Indies; Trinidad. 



[Psittacus] harhademis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 339 ("Barbados"; based 

 on Psittaciis barhadensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 236; Perroquet des Barbades Albin, 

 pi. 11).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 120. 



[Psittacus] ochropterus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 341 ("America australi"; 

 based on Psittacus amazonicus gutture luteo Brisson, Orn., iv, 287; Crick h 

 tete et gorge ja~av.elinU.ovL, Ois., vi, 222; Yellow-ioinged Parrot Latliam, Synop- 

 sis Birds, i, 289; etc.).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 123. 



Ps[ittactLs] ochropterus Bechstein, Latliams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793, 243. 



Psittacus ochropterus Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 31 and note (app.), p. 8. — 

 Bechstein, Kurze Ueb., 1811, 97. 



Psittacus ochruptenus Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1855, pL 70. 



Psittacus ocTopterus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 327 (cites 

 "pi. 48 Ois. Frisch"); Tabl. Enc. Metb., iii, 1823, 1374. 



[Chrysotisl ochropterus Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301. 



C[hrysotis] ochropterus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 422. 



Chrysotis ochropta-a Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151; Naumannia, 

 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 87).— Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 153.— 

 Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidae, 1859, 79. — Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 

 1868, 577.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 266, footnote.— Reichenow, Vogel- 

 bild., 1878, pi. 1, fig. 5.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 288; 

 Ibis, 1906, 645.— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 301, 328, 329, pi. 9, fig. 1 (Aruba I., 

 Dutch West Indies; crit. ; habits). 



« One specimen, from Aruba. The type of Chrysotis lactifrons Lawrence, probably 

 also from Aruba, the sex being undetermined, measures as follows: Tail, 109.5; cul- 

 men, 26; tai-sus, 20.5; outer anterior toe, 26. This has the primaries imperfect, while 

 the other specimen has the terminal portion of the maxilla broken off. 



