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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



and breast margined terminally with black, the crescentic bars thus 

 formed broadest on lower hindneck and sides of neck;'* forehead 

 (rather narrowly) and upper portion of loral region poppy red; 

 remiges (except proximal secondaries) and primary coverts light 

 greenish blue (greenish cerulean or turquoise), the secondaries passing 

 into green on edges; inner webs of primaries black, of secondaries 

 slate-blackish toward edge, passing into greenish blue next to shaft, 

 at least distally ; alula green basally passing into greenish blue termi- 

 nally; tail green (without any red), the rectrices more yellowish green 

 terminally, the outer web of outermost rectrix tinged with greenish 

 blue distally; mider surface of remiges beryl green, the longer pri- 

 maries with distal portion and a broad stripe next to shaft blackish 

 slate; biU pale grayish buffy suffused with horn color; legs and feet 

 pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 260-300 (287) ; wing, 184-196 (189.9) ; 

 tail, 96.5-108.5 (102.9); culmen, 27-28.5 (27.9); tarsus, 21-22 (21.8); 

 outer anterior toe, 27.5-29 (28.4).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 270-283 (276); wmg, 173-184.5 

 (180.7); tail, 93-103.5 (99.2); culmen, 27-28 (27.3); tarsus, 19-21 

 (20); outer anterior toe, 25-29 (27.1).^ 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles (El Yunque; Mameyes). 



Psittacus vittatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 49 (based on Perroquet de 

 St. Domingue Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 792).— Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 

 21.— SuNDEVALL, (Efv. K. Vet.-Ak. For., 1869, 599 (Porto Rico). 



P[siUacus\ vittatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 421. 



Chrysotis vittata Bolle, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 170 ("Antillen"). — Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 224.— Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 377, in text 

 (Porto Rico).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 83.— Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1864, 171 (Porto Rico).— Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, 190, footnote.— 

 FiNSCH, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 515. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 458 (synonomy; 

 descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 181.— Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55.— 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 309. 



[Chrysotis] vittata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8336. — 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 

 ("Guiana"). 



(i Sometimes feathers on the abdomen are tipped with brownish red. 

 ^ Five specimens. 



