254 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 313; wing, 215.5; tail, 128; culmen, 

 28.5; tarsus, 20; outer anterior toe, 25.5.'^ 



Island of Bonaire, Dutch West Indies; islands of BlanquiUa and 

 Margarita, Venezuela. 



Chrysotis rothschildi Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. iii, Dec. 1, 1892, p. xiii 

 (Bonaire Island, Dutch West Indies; coll. Tring Mus.); Ibis, 1893, 123 (re- 

 print), 328, pi. 9, fig. 2 (Bonaire; crit.; habits).— Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 645 

 (descr.). — Lowe, Ibis, 1907, 117 (Blanquilla I.; descr. adults and young); 

 1909, 330 (Blanquilla I.; crit.). 



[Amazona] rothschildi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 21. 



Chrysotis ochroptera rothschildi Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 303 (Bonaire; 

 crit.; habits). 



Amazona ochroptera rothschildi Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., Oct. 25, 1909, 

 211 (Bonaire I.; crit.), 223 (Blanquilla I.; crit.), 242 (Mai-garita I.). 



AMAZONA ALBIFRONS ALBIFRONS (Sparrman). 



WHITE-FRONTED PARROT. 



Adult male. — Loral and orbital regions (the latter narrowly above, 

 broadly below, eye), and anterior margin of forehead deep poppy 

 red (or between poppy red and carmine) ; rest of forehead yellowish 

 white or huffy white, sometimes tinged or suffused with pale red; 

 crown greenish blue (dull turquoise or light cerulean), the feathers 

 margined terminally with black, producing narrow bars; blue of 

 crown gradually passing on occiput and Jiindneck into clear, bright 

 parrot green, the feathers similarly margined terminally with black 

 (more broadly so on lower hindneck) ; back, scapulars, and rump more 

 yellowish parrot green, passing into light yellowish green on upper 

 tail-coverts, the feathers (except tail-coverts) margined terminally 

 with black (these margins less distinct, sometimes obsolete, on rump 

 and posterior scapulars) ; wing-coverts and proximal secondaries 

 clear bright yellowish green, the larger coverts edged with paler and 



o One specimen, from Blanquilla. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Cul- 

 men. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Blanquilla Island, 

 One adult male from Margarita Island 



FEMALE. 



One adult female from Blanquilla Island?, 

 One adult female from Margarita Island? . 



221.2 

 195 



215.5 

 206 



137.3 

 124.5 



128 

 124.5 



31.2 

 30 



28.5 

 28.5 



23.3 

 22 



29.8 

 29.6 



25.5 

 25.5 



The specimen certainly from Margarita Island is not typical A. b. rothschildi, but 

 is intermediate between tliat form and A. b. barbadensis, nearer to the latter, in fact. 

 The other female, doubtfully from Blanquilla, is a typical A. b. rothschildi. 



