BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 263 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 253-270 (262); wing, 164.5-179 

 (169.1); tail, 82.5-87 (85.1); culmen, 22.5-25 (23.7); tarsus, 19-21.5 

 (20.3); outer anterior toe, 24-26.5 (25.4).« 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (Priestmans River; St. Ann's; 

 Spanishtown; Moneague; Freemans Hall; Trelawny). 



[Psittacus] agilis Linn-eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 99 (Jamaica; based on The 



Little Green Parrot, Psittacus minor viridis Edwards, Birds, iv, 246, pi. 168); 



ed. 12, i, 1766, 143.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 330.— Latham, Index 



Orn., i, 1790, 106. 

 Psittacus agilis Bechstein, Lathams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793, 249, 711. — Vieillot, 



Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 324 (cites PI. Enl., pi. 839); Tabl. Enc. 



M^th., iii, 1823, 1372.— Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 266. 

 Ps[ittacus] agilis Bechstein, Knrze Uebers., 1811, 82, pi. 17. — Wagler, Mon. 



Psitt., 1832, 597, 718. 

 P[sittacus] agilis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 421. 

 Chrysotis agilis Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 82. — Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18G1, 79; 1873, 811; 1882, 801; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 



354. — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 203. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1863, 284.— Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 531.— Garrod, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1874, 587. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 460 (synonymy; descr.); Birds 



West Ind., 1889, 183. — Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55. — Salvadori, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 319 (Freman's Hall, Trelawny, and Spanishtown, 



Jamaica). 

 [Chrysotis] agilis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 164, no. 8329. — Sclater and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 113.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 



1886), 20. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 14. 

 C[hrysotis] agilis Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 110. 

 Androglossa agilis Reichenow, Journ fiir Orn., 1881, 367 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 



1882, 207; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 117. 

 Amazona agilis Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 101, 130. — Scott, Auk, ix, 



1892, 128 (habits; crit.).— Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15.— 



Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 344. 

 [Amazona] agilis Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 22. 

 Psittacus signatus Shaw, Gen. Zool., \dii, no. 2, 1811, 510 ("Brazil"; based on Le 



Petit Perroquet Vert Levaillant, pi. 105). — Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 71. — 



Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 102.— Voigt, Cuv. Uebers., 1831, 



739. 

 [Chrysotis] signatiis Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301. 

 P[sittacus] minor (not of Gmelin, 1788) Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. M^th., iii, 1823, 



1367 ("Am^rique m^ridionale " ; based on Le Petit Perroquet Vert Levail- 

 lant, pi. 105). 

 Psittacus virescens (not of Linnseus) Bechstein, Kurze Ueb., 1811, 99. 

 Psittacus aestivus (not of Linnseus) Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 75, part. 



AMAZONA VITTATA VITTATA (Boddaert). 

 PORTO RICAK PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color clear, bright parrot green, 

 slightly lighter and more yellowish below (the tail-coverts more vivid 

 yellowish green), the feathers of head, neck, back, scapulars, chest, 



<^ Nine specimens. 



