17. CHRYsoTrs. 285 



Androglossa amazoniea, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 377 (Consp. 

 Psitt. p. 217). 



Adult. Green, under surface paler ; the feathers of the hind 

 neck edged with blackish ; forehead, lores, and superciliary stripes 

 blue ; vertex pale yellow ; cheeks deep yellow ; ear-coverts grass- 

 green ; outer webs of the upper tail-coverts and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish green ; metacarpal edge yellowish green ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts green, the first tipped with blue ; wing-specu- 

 lum orange-red ; first primary black, the remainder black, with the 

 base of the outer webs green ; between the green base and the black 

 apical part there is a deep blue tinge, which is very conspicuous at 

 the tip of the secondaries ; smaller under wing-coverts green, like 

 the underparts ; greater under wing-coverts and inner webs of the 

 quills below green ; tail green, with the tip yellow-green ; the 

 lateral tail-feathers have the inner web, except at the tip, orange- 

 red, crossed by a green band ; the outer tail-feather has the middle 

 part of the outer web blue ; bill light horn-colour, with the tip 

 dusky ; feet dusky ; iris red-orange. Total length about 13*5 inches, 

 wing 7'8, tail 4-1, bill 1*35, tarsus 0-65. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hob. Guiana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Colombia, and Amazonia. 



a. Ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Guiana (Eyton Coll.). Purchased. 



d. 3 ad. sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana, January Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



{H. Whitely). 



e. 3 ad. sk. Cainacusa, Brit. Guiana, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. JJ7iitely). 



f. 2 a d. sk. Takutu R., Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March [H. Whitely). 



g. Ad. sk. Venezuela. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



»". Ad. st. Bogota. Purchased. 



k. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Bogota ( Crowther). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. 3 ad. sk. Ariuueca, U. S. of Colombia, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March (F. A. A. Simons), 

 m. Ad. sk. Rio Napo, Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



n, o. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p. 3 ad. sk. Chamicuros, Peruvian Amazons, E. Bartlett, Esq. 



September. [C]. 



q. 3 ad. sk. Chamicuros, Peruvian Amazons, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



September (E. Bartlett). 

 r, s. 3 2 ft d- sk. Chayavetas, Peruvian Amazons, E. Bartlett, Esq. 



August. [C.]. 



12. Chrysotis aestiva. 



The Great Green Parrot from the West Indies, JBdw. Birds, iv. pi. 162 



(var.) (17ol ). 

 Psittacus viridis major occidentalis, Edic. Birds, iv. p. 246 (var.) 



(1751). 

 Psittacus amazonicus .jamaicensis, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 276 (1760). 



