274 PS1TTACID.E. 



b. Ad. sk. St. Vincent, W. Indies Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Zool. Soc). 



c. J ad. sk. St. Vincent, W. Indies Sclater Coll. 



(Zool. Soc). 

 d-o. <S 5 ad. et St. Vincent, W. Indies Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. (D. W. Smith). 



p. Skeleton. 



2. Chrysotis augusta. 



Psittacns kavanensis, Kuhl (nee Gin.), Consp. Psitt. p. 79 (1820) ; 



Wagl Mon. Psitt. p. 746 (1832). 

 Psittacus augustus, Vig. (nee Shaw, 1792) P. Z. S. 1836, p. 80 ; 



Bourj. Pen: pi. G3 (1837-38) ; Gr. fy Mitch. Gen. B. ii. pi. 104 



(1846) ; Gulliv. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 102, 1875, p. 489. 

 Chrysotis augustus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 422, n. 16 (1846) ; id. 



List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 84 (1859). 

 Oenochrus augustus, Bp. Rev. et Mac/, de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 82 ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 105, n. 8345 (1870). 

 Onochrus bavanensis, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 104 (?). 

 Amazona augustus, Schleg. Mm. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 50 (1864). 

 Chrysotis augusta, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 437 ; Finsch, Papag. 



ii. p. 557 (1868) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 266 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. 



p. 680 (1872) ; Sclat. 8f Sab). Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 113, n. 19 



(1873); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 324; Sclat. # Sale. Ibis, 1878, p. 195; 



Lam: Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 62, 487 (1878) ; Ober, Camps 



in the Caribbees, p. 112 (1880) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 627 ; id. 



List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 348 (1883) ; Cory, List B. West Ind. 



p. 20 (1883) ; id. Auk, 1886, p. 461 ; id. Birds of W. Ind. p. 184 



(1889) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1889, pp. 326, 327 ; Marsh. Papag. p. 55 



(1889). 

 Amazona augusta, Schleg. 3Ius. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 26 (1874). 

 Androglossa augusta, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 379 (Consp. 



Psitt. p. 219) ; id. Vogelbild. t. xxxii. f. 7 (1883). 



Adult. Head, neck, breast, and abdomen dark purple-blue, with 

 the edges of the feathers black ; feathers of the pileum and occiput 

 ■with shining dark green edges ; feathers of the upper breast and 

 vent distinctly purple ; back, rump, upper and under tail-coverts, 

 sides, flanks, and thighs green, the feathers edged with blackish, 

 and more or less blue near the edges ; wings green ; metacarpal 

 edge and wing-speculum crimson ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts green : primaries dark brown, with the bases of the outer 

 webs green ; outer secondaries dull purple, inner ones green, with 

 dull blue tips ; smaller under wing-coverts green, tipped with blue, 

 the greater ones and bases of the inner webs of the quills below 

 dull green ; tail above dull reddish brown, with the tip vinous, the 

 central feathers tinged with green, and also the lateral ones at the 

 base ; the outer tail-feather entirely reddish brown ; tail below 

 reddish brown, with green reflexions : " upper mandible dark horn- 

 colour, with a whitish mark on its side at the base ; the under 

 mandible is lighter ; the feet blackish brown " (Lawrence). Total 

 length 19 inches, wing 11, tail 7, bill 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Female. Like the male, perhaps a little duller. 



