192 



PSITTACID-ffi. 



wing-coverts and quills underneath blackish ; tail above green, the 

 two central feathers more or less tinged with blue at the tip ; tail 

 below golden-olive : bill whitish ; feet dusky ; iris pale orange. 

 Total length about 10-5 inches, wing 57, tail 5-2, bill 0-88, 

 tarsus 05. 



Female. Like the male. 



Bab. Jamaica. 



a. Ad. st. 



b, c. Ad. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. £ ad. sk. 



/. cJ ad. sk. 



g. Sternum and 

 shoulder-girdle. 



Jamaica. 



Jamaica. 



J amaica ( Osburri) . 



Spanishtown, Jamaica, 



March ( W. T. March). 

 Freeman's Hall, Irelawny, 



Jamaica, January {Os- 



burn). 

 Jamaica. 



Purchased. 



P. H. Gosse [P.]. 



Sclater Coll. 



Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



P. H. Gosse [P.]. 



22. Conurus aztec. 



Psittacus pertinax, juv., Licht. Preis-Verz. d. Siiugeth. etc aus 



Mexico, p. 1 (1830) ; id. Journ.f. Orn. 1863, p. 54. 

 Conurus astec, Souance, liev. et Mar/, de Zool. 1857, p. 97 ; Sclat. 



P. Z. S. 1857, p. 230; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 59 ; Sclat. $ Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 137 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1859, p. .388 ; id. Ann. § Mag. N. 



H. (3) iv. p. 224 (1859) ; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 120 ; Sclat. # Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 280, 1870, p. 837 ; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 313 ; 



Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 43 ; Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 373, 1890, p. 88. 

 Conurus aztec, Souance, Icon. Pen: pi. xii. f. 2 (lower figure) (1857) ; 



G. P. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 38 (1859) ; Sclat. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 349, n. 2080 (1862) ; Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 21 (1864); 



Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 184 (1865) ; Finsch, Papag. 



i. p. 522 (1867) ; Soma, Mm. Nac. Lisboa, p. 9 (1869) ; Later. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 207 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 



p. 147, n. 8112 (1870) ; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 93; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



i. p. 760 (1872); Sclat. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 112, 



n. 26 (1873); Schleg. Mas. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 6 (1874); 



Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 587 ; Laior. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mm. no. 4, 



p. 35 (1875) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 455 ; Sclat. List Vert. 



An. 8th ed. p. 344 (1883) ; Nutt. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mm. vi. p. 407 



(1883) ; Zeled. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. Ill (1885) ; Pidgiv. 



Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 270 (1887) ; Salv. $ Godm. Ibis, 1889, 



p. 241. 

 Conurus asteco, Bp. Compt. Rend. xliv. p. 538 (1857). 

 Conurus frontalis, Natt. in Mus. Vindob., fide Finsch, Papag. i. p. 522 



(1867) ; Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 281 (Consp. Psitt. p. 169) ; 



id. Vogelbi/d. t. xxxiii. f. 5 (1883). 



Adult male. Upper parts, cheeks, and ear-coverts green ; a 

 narrow frontal band between the nostrils orange-yellow ; throat 

 and upper breast brown-olive, with darker shaft-lines : lower breast 

 and abdomen olive ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts green ; 

 wings and tail as in C. nanus, only the smaller under wing-coverts 

 and the axillaries of a lighter and more yellowish green : bill brown 



