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[Chrysotis] axmtholora Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 113. — Forbes 



and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 14. 

 Psittacus xantholonis Schlegel, Dierent., 1864, 66. 

 Amazona xantholora Schlegel, Mus. Paya-Bas., iii, no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 59; 



no. 38 (Revue), 1874, 28. 

 A[mazona\ xantholora Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 588; 2d ed., 1896, 595, 

 [A')nazona\ xantholora Sharpe, Hand-List, ii, 1890, 22. 

 Androglossa xantholora Reichenow, Journ. fiir Om., 1881, 375 (monogr.); Consp. 



Psitt., 1882, 215. 

 (?) Chrysotis albifrons (var.) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1897- '99 (1900), 



220 (Chaloma, Honduras). 



AMAZONA AGILIS (Linnaeus). 



LESSER JAMAICAN PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Head and neck bright green (between 

 scheeles green and peacock green), becoming paler toward throat, 

 which is much paler and more yellowish and frequently flecked with 

 red, the feathers of pileum narrov/ly margined terminally with black, 

 formmg more or less distinct narrow bars, which are much broader 

 on lower hindneck and sometimes obsolete on forehead or even on 

 crown; anterior portion of forehead or supraloral region sometimes 

 with dark red feathers; rest of upper parts bright parrot green, 

 except primary coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries; primary 

 coverts (at least in part) geranium red or light scarlet-red ; primaries 

 (except the outermost) dark blue on outer webs and terminal portion 

 of inner webs, edged with green basally and (more or less) v/ith dull 

 whitish or pale brownish distally, the inner webs, including termmal 

 portion of those of longer quills, dull black; outer webs of distal sec- 

 ondaries lighter blue, more broadly edged with green; mner v/ebs of 

 four outer rectrices with basal half (more or less) red (dull spectrum 

 red), the distal half parrot green passing into pale yellowish green 

 on edge, the outer webs of the two outermost suffused with blue 

 distally; under parts clear light paris green or deep calliste green, 

 the chest (sometimes breast and sides also) occasionally more or 

 less distinctly barred with blackish; smaller under wing-coverts clear 

 r light green, becoming yellowish on carpo-metacarpal edge; under pri- 

 mary coverts and under surface of remiges dull bluish green (nearly 

 malachite or french green), the foniier narrowly edged with paler, 

 the latter blackish toward shaft and on distal portion of longer 

 primaries; bill dusky horn color, with a more or less distinct lighter 

 spot on sides of maxilla, beneath nostrils; legs and feet dusky horn 

 color (in dried skins). 



Immature. — Similar to adults, but some (in younger birds all) of 

 the primary coverts green. 



Adult maZe.— Length (sldns), 251-285 (265); wing, 166.5-176 

 (171.1); tail, 80.5-90 (87); culmen, 23-25.5 (24.4); tarsus, 19-21.5 

 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 24-27 (25.6).'' 



"' Ten specimens. 



