278 PSTTTACIDJC. 



Le Perroquet Bouquet, Levaill. Perr. pi. 13.5 (1805). 



Psittacus bouqueti, Bechst. Lath. Uebers. p. 99, n. 167 (1811) ; Kuhl, 

 Consp. Psitt. p. 76 (1820) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. p. 101 

 (1826) ; Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 593 (1832) ; Brehm, Mm. d. Papag. 

 t. 54. 



Psittacus crerulifrons, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 515 (1811); Cuv. 

 Regn. An. i. p. 464, note (1829) ; Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 741 (1831). 



? Psittacus autumnalis, var., Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 326 (1817). 



Autumnal Parrot, var. A, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 249 (1822). 



Psittacus cyaneocapillus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1373, pi. 229. f. 1 

 (1823) ; Burm. Syst. Ueh. ii. p. 186 (note) (1856). 



Chrysotis cyanocephalus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 301 (1837). 



Chrysotis bouqueti, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 422, n. 11 (1846)*; 

 Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, n. 101 ; id. Naumannia, 

 1856, Co?isp. Psitt. n. 96 ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mm. p. 81 

 (1859); Finsch Papag. ii. p. 555 (1868); Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 266 

 (note) (1871) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 680 (1872) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 627 ; id. Ibis, 1881, pp. 412, 414 ; Cory, List Birds W. Ind. p. 20 

 (1885) ; id. Auk, 1886, p. 462 ; id. Birds W. Ind. p. 185 (1889) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1889, pp. 326, 327 ; id. Ibis, 1889, p. 565. 



Chrysotis arausiaca, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 165, n. 8339 (1870). 



Chrysotis nichollsi, Laivr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mm. iii. p. 254 (1880) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 627 ; id. Ibis, 1881, p. 413 ; Rchmv. u. Schal. 

 Journ.f. Orn. 1883, p. 417. 



Androg-lossa bouqueti, Rchmv. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 370 {Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 210) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 122 (1883). 



Adult male. Green, the feathers edged with black ; face or fore- 

 head, lores, periophthalmic region, anterior part of the cheeks, and 

 throat, purple-blue ; a red spot on the middle of the lower throat ; 

 upper and under tail-coverts yellow-green ; primary-coverts very 

 dark green, nearly black, with a blue tinge at the tip ; first primary 

 entirely black, the others with the bases of the outer webs deep 

 blue, slightly tinged with green on the edges ; a red wing-speculum 

 at the base of the outer webs of the first three secondaries ; 

 secondaries with a blue tinge near the tips ; under wing-coverts 

 green, the greater ones verditer-green ; inner webs of the quills 

 below verditer-blue : tail green, with a broad green-yellow band at 

 the tip of the lateral feathers, central feathers with narrow green- 

 yellow tips ; the four first tail-feathers with the bases of the 

 inner webs red, the outer feather edged with blue at the base of the 

 outer web ; tail underneath yellow-green at the apical half, green at 

 the basal half, the inner webs of the lateral feathers with red 

 bases : bill light horn-colour, with the base of the upper mandible 

 yellowish ; feet dusky. Total length about 1 6 inches, wing 9-5, 

 tail 5-5, bill 1*35, tarsus - 75. 



Hub. Dominica, W. Indies. 



Obs. Some specimens have the primary-coverts decidedly green. 



a. Ad. sic. Dominica {Ober). Purchased 



b. Ad. sk. Dominica {Ober). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



* G. R. Gray, among the synonyms, quotes P. pilcatus, Cuv., but the bird 

 so named in the Regne Anim. i. p. 465 (note) is Psittacus caica, Lath. 



