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41927. Adult (sex not indicated). Peru. Collected by Johann J. von 

 Tschudi. Received from the Neuchatel Museum. 



Genus AMAZONA Lesson 



Amazona albifrons saltuensis Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 13: 26, May 29, 1899. 

 164257. Adult male. Camoa (lat. 27°13' N., long. 109°18' W.), State 

 of Sonora, Mexico. January 16, 1899. Collected by Edward A. Gold- 

 man. Original number 6109. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wild- 

 life Service. 

 Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 106, May 27, 1915. 

 169034. Adult male. Culebra Island (in the Vieques Sound, east of 

 Puerto Rico), Caribbean Sea. February 11, 1899. Collected by Arthur 

 B. Baker. Original number 103. 

 Chrysotis nichollsi Lawrence 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 3: 254, September 15, 1880. 

 =Amazon arausiaca (P. L. S. Miiller) . See Ridgway, Birds of North and 



Middle America 7: 229, 231, 1916. 

 79948. Adult (probably male). Campbell, Dominica Island, Leeward 

 Islands, Caribbean Sea. (Not later than March) 1879. Received from 

 Henry A. A, Nicholls, who bought it in the market. 

 Amazona oratrix tresmariae Nelson 

 Auk 17 (3) : 256, July 1900. 

 =Amazona ochrocephala tresmariae Nelson. See Peters, Checldist of 



birds of the world 3: 221, 1937. 

 156735. Adult male. Maria Madre Island, Tres Marias Islands, off the 

 State of Nayarit, Mexico. May 4, 1897. Collected by Edward W. Nelson 

 and Edward A. Goldman. Original number 4246. Received from the 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 A[mazona]. oratrix Ridgway 



Manual of North American birds, p. 587, 1887. 

 =Amazona ochrocephala oratrix Ridgway. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 3: 221, 1937. 

 54206. Adult male. Petapa, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. October 25, 1868. 



Collected by Adrien L. F. Sumichrast. Original number 102. 

 Ridgway's name was originally a mere substitute for Chrysotis levaillantii 

 G. R. Gray, 1859, not Amazona levaillantii Lesson, 1831; it was accompanied 

 by a description of the adult, but no particular specimen was mentioned, and 

 thus, by implication, the type of oratrix was the same as the type of Gray's 

 levaillantii. 



When Nelson, in 1900, separated A. o. tresmariae from A. oratrix, he stated 

 that "the type of Mr. Ridgway's A. oratrix came from Petapa, Oaxaca"; 

 here for the first time the existence of a definite type specimen was suggested. 



