276 psittacid^:. 



carpal edge red ; a red speculum at the base of the outer webs of the 

 three first secondaries ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts green, first 

 primary black with the outer web blue ; the remaining primaries 

 have the outer webs green towards the base, blue towards the tips ; 

 secondaries green, with no blue tips ; greater under wing-coverts 

 and part of the inner webs of the quills towards the base verditer- 

 green ; tail green, with the tip gradually turning to yellowish 

 green, and with the base of the lateral feathers bright red on the 

 inner web, dull and dark purple-red on the outer one : " bill red, with 

 white tip ; feet olive-grey ; iris orange " ( Wied). Total length 

 about 145 inches, wing 8-2, tail 4-5, bill 1-15, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. A little duller : bill less bright red (Wied). 



Young. Red frontal band duller ; feathers of the breast less 

 bright vinous red and with broader green edges ; metacarpal edge 

 yellow : bill red only at the base ; iris lemon-yellow ( Wied). 



Hab. South-eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and X. Argentina. 



The first specimen mentioned below differs from the others in 

 having the bastard-wing, the primary-coverts, and the base of 

 the outer webs of the primaries with a bluish tinge ; also the under 

 surface shows very distinctly the same tinge. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



b. cJad.sk. Ytarare, Brazil, Feb. (Nattercr). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. cJad.sk. Concepcion, Misiones, Arg. Rep., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June (E. W. White). 



d. Ad. sk. Bahia ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Q ad. sk. Brazil. Zoological Society's 



Coll. 



4. Chrysotis versicolor. 



Psittacus Amazonicus gutture cseruleo, Briss. Orn, iv. p. 26, pi. xxv. 



f. 1 (1760). 

 Perroquet de la Havane, D'Aubent. PI, Enl. 360. 

 Psittacus versicolor, Mull. S. N. Suppl. p. 78, n. 56 (1776) ; Cass. 



Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Philad. 1864, p. 240. 

 Crik a face bleue, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 227 (1779). 

 Blue-fronted Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 291 (1781) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. 



p. 247 (1822). 

 Psittacus eyanorynchus (!), Bodd. Tabl. PI, Enl. p. 22 (1783). 

 Psittacus havanensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 342, n. 117 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. i. p. 124, n. 121 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 531 



(1811) ; Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 98 (1811-12) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



xiv. p. 106 (1825); Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 742 (1831); Less. Tr. 



cCOm. p. 196 (1831) ; Wagl, Mon. Psitt. p. 596 (1832). 

 Le Perroquet a face bleue, Levaill. Perr. pi. 122 (1805). 

 Psittacus cvanopis, Yieill. N. D. xxv. p. 325 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. 



iii. p. 1372 (1823). 

 Chrysotis havanensis, Siv. Class. B. ii. p. 301 (1837) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. 



B. ii. p. 422, n. 15 (1846) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 357 (1868). 

 Chrysotis cyanorhynchus, G. R. Gr. Gen, B. iii. App. p. 20 (1849). 

 Oenochrus havanensis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 83. 

 Onochrus havanensis, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt, n. 104. 

 Chrysotis cvanorhvneha, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit, Mus. p. 84 



(1859). 



