C. conurus. 199 



the abdomen ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts green, bluish towards 

 the tips ; quills blue, edged with black at the tip, and with the 

 outer webs towards the base green ; smaller under wing-coverts 

 yellowish green, tho greater ones blackish, slightly edged with 

 yellowish; quills uuderneath blackish; tail above green, the four 

 central feathers bluish towards the tips ; tail below golden olive : 

 bill horn-brown ; feet dusky. Total length about 10 inches, wing 

 5-4, tail 4-4, bill OGS, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hub. St. Thomas and St. Croix. 



A specimen from Mr. Sclater's collection, labelled S. America, 

 appears to have lived in confinement : it is larger than any speci- 

 mens from St. Thomas, and seems to have had flesh-coloured feet. 

 Total length 11-5 inches, wing 54, tail 5-2, bill 0-93. 



I have not seen specimens from St. Croix *. 



a, b. Ak. sk. St. Thomas (F. R. Newton). Prof. A. Newton [P.]. 



(Types of C.ianthc- 

 Icemus, Sel.) 



c. Ad. sk. St. Thomas (F. R. Neioton). Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. St. Thomas (Riise). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. St. Thomas (R. Swift). Sruithsouian Institu- 



tion [P.]. 

 /. Ad.sk. St. Thomas (R. Swift). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(j. Ad. sk. St. Thomas (J. Akhurst). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/<. Ad. sk. [S. America.] Sclater Coll. 



i. 3 ad. sk. St. Thomas. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



27. Conurus aureus. 



Tni apute-juba, Marcgr. Hist. rer. not. Bras. ix. p. 20G (1648) ; 



Licht. Abh. Berl. Akad. 1817, p. 167. 

 Golden-crowned Parrakeet, Edw. Glean, v. p. 50, pi. 253 (upper 



figure) (1758) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 251, n. 54 (1781) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. ii. p. 178 (1822). 

 Psittaca brasiliensis, Brits. Orn. iv. p. 337 (1760). 

 Perruche a front jaune de Cavenne, D'Aubent.Pl. Enl. 838. 

 Perriche couronn£e d'Or, Buff. Hist. Xat. Ok. vi. p. 271 (1779). 

 Buff-fronted Parrakeet, Lath. Syn Suppl. p. 61, n. 135 (1787). 

 Psittacus aureus. Gm. {nee Shaw) S. A", i. p. 32!', n. s-7 (17S-s) : 



Bechst. Lath. Ueb. p. 79 (1811); Lk-ht. Abh. Ik-rl. Akad. 1817, 



p. I(i7: Kuhl,Consp. P<itt. p. 24(1820); Vkill. Fne. Mvth. iii. 



p. 1397 | L823) ; Voigt, Cur. Uebers. p. 732(1831) ; Neuwied, Batr. 



iv. p. 17;! (1832) ; Sahn, Om. At!., Papoff. p. 34, t. 17 (1834) ; 



Dubois, Orn. Gal. pi. 45 (1889). 



* Most likely in Dominica a distinct species exists : — 



Parrot, Ober, Pr. U.S. Xat. Mas. 1878, p. 64; Ibis, 1879, p. 211. 



" Apparently allied to Conurus pertinax " (Ibis, 1. c). 

 Hub. Dominica. 



