16. BROTOGERYS. 257 



3. Brotogerys virescens. 



Peittaca cayanensis, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 334, pi. xxvii. f. 2 (1700). 

 Petite Perruche verte de Cayenne, Daubent. Pi. Enl. 359. 

 Psittacus veraicolurua (!), Mull. S. iV. Suppl. p. 75, 6i (177G) ; Oss. 



Pr. Ac. Philad. 1804, p. 239. 

 Pei-riche a ailes varices, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 259 (1779). 

 Yellow-winged Parrakeet. Lath. Syn. i. p. 244, n. 43 (1781) ; id. 



Gen. Hw*.ii.p. 167(1822). 

 Psittacus virescens, Gm. S. N. i. p. 326, n. 77 (1788); Lath. Iwf. 



Orn. i. p. 100, n. 51 (1790); Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 458 



(1811) ; Bechd. Kurze Ueb. p. 59 (1811-12) ; Vieill. X. D. xxv. 



p. 360 (1812); Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 26 (syn. emend.) (1820); 



Vieill. Enc. Mith. iii. p. 1395 (1823) ; Voiof, Cuv. Uebers. p. 733 



(1831) ; Hahn, Orn. Atl., Papag. p. 70 (ne'e t. 50) (1836). 

 Perruche a ailes variees, LevaiU. Pen: pi. 57 (1801). 

 Aratinga virescens, Spiv, Ac. Bras. i. p. 37 (1824) ; Steph. Gen. 



ZooLxiv. p. 139 (1820); Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. t. 31 (1852). 

 Conurus virescens, Less. Tr. a" Orn. p. 212 (1831); G. It Gr. Gen. 



B. ii. p. 414, n. 28 (1845); Burnt. St/st. Ueb. ii. p. 173 (1856) ; 



G. R Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 45 (1859) ; Sclat. Cat. Ant. B. 



p. 351, n. 2095 (1802). 

 Sittace virescens, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 636 (1832). 

 Tirica virescens, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 69; 



Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 04 ; Bp. Naumanniu, 1 B56, 



Consp. Psitt. n. .58; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisbon, Psittaci, p. 10 



(1809). 

 Psittaculus virescens, Sckkg. Mus. P.-B. Tsittaci, p. 27 (18G4) ; id. 



op. cit. Revue, p. 7 (1874). 

 Brotogerys virescens, Select. $>• Salv P. Z. S. 1867, p. 588: Finsch, 



Papaq. ii. pp. 94, 949 (1868) ; Pels. Orn. Bras. pp. 260, 447, 



liii (1871); Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 483 (1872); Sclat. $ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 113, n. 3 (1873); Pelz. Ibis, 1873, 



p. 117 ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 460, 034, 1874, p. 387 ; Rcknw. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 342 (Consp. Psitt. p. 182): id. Vogelbild. 



Nachtr. 98 (1883) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 353 (1883 ) ; 



Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 206, Tabl. p. 99 (1886). 

 Tirica versicolurus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 150, n. 8156 (1870). 



Adult male. Dark green ; forehead, lores, and upper parts of the 

 cheeks with a bluish grey tinge ; primary-coverts blue, first primary 

 black, tipped and edged with blue on the outer web ; next three 

 primaries dull blue, edged with green on the outer webs ; the re- 

 maining primaries and the bastard-wing white; secondaries white 

 tinged with yellow ; greater wing-coverts yellow ; smaller under 

 wing-coverts green, the greater ones and the inner webs of the first 

 four primaries below bluish green : " tail above green, below bluish 

 green ; bill, cere, and feet pale horn-yellowish ; iris brown '\Finsch). 

 Total length 8-8 inches, wing 4-8, tail 4*2, bill 0-6, tarsus 0-5. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. The white primaries are less in number and have green 

 tips ; the yellow greater wing-coverts are edged with green. 



Hah. The Amazon Valley from Para to the Peruvian Andes. 



Schlcgcl states that the specimens in the Leyden Museum are 

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