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chin, bend of the wing, and thighs yellow ; cubital edge also yellow, 

 more or less mixed with red ; upper and under tail-coverts light 

 green ; wing-speculum red ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 green ; primaries black, with the outer webs green on the basal 

 half; secondaries broadly tipped with blue ; metacarpal edge green 

 or yellowish green; smaller under wing-coverts green, the greater 

 ones and inner webs of the quills verditer-blue ; tail green, with a 

 broad yellow-green apical band ; the lateral tail-feathers red at the 

 base, and with a green band on the inner webs between the yellow- 

 green apical portion and the red bases : the outer tail-feather with 

 the outer web blue, deeper towards the base, paler towards the tip : 

 bill whitish horn-colour ; feet pale ; iris orange. Total length about 

 13 - 5 inches, wing 8*6, tail 5, bill 1*2, tarsus 0-6. 



Female. Probably like the male. 



Hub. Venezuela and Trinidad ? 



Some specimens have the lower part of the cheeks green, washed 

 with blue. 



Dr. Finsch mentions a specimen sent to the Berlin Museum from 

 Caracas ; I suppose that this is Messrs. Sclater and Salvia's authority 

 for stating that the bird lives in Venezuela. 



a. Ad. st. S. America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. st. S. America. Massena Coll. 



c. 3 ad. sk. S. America {Zool. Soc). Sclater Coll. 



d. e. 3 ad. sk. S. America. Zoological Society's Coll. 



14. Chrysotis ochrocephala. 



Psittacus Amazonicus poikilorlrynckos, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 270 (1700) 



(ex Aldr.). 

 Psittacus Amazonicus brasiliensis, Briss, Orn. iv. p. 272, t. xxvi. f. 1 



(1760). 

 PPerroquet verd et rouge de Cayenne, D'Aubent. PL EnL n. 312. 

 ? Psittacus cajenneus, Mutt. S. N. Suppl. p. 78 (nee p. 81) (1776) ; 



Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. 8c. Philad. 1S64, p. 240. 

 PAmazone a tete jaune, var. 1, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 209 



(1779). 

 \ ellow-headed Amazons Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 282, n. 89 (1781) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 237 (,1822). 

 ? Yellow-headed Amazons Pair, it, var. A, Yellow-crowned Parrot, 



Lath. Si/n. i. p. 282 (1781) ; id. den. Hi*t. ii. p. 237 (1822). 

 Parti-billed Parrot, Lath. Syn. i. p. 283 (1781); id. Gen. Hist. ii. 



p. 23* I 1S22). 

 Psittacus ochrocephalus, 6m. 8. N. i. p. 330, n. 112 (with var-. 



0&y)(1788): Vieill. N I). xxv. p. 824 (part.) (1817); Hahn, 



Tog. aits As. etc. Lief, rvi. t. I (1822); Vieill. Enc. Metli. iii. 



p. L372(part.) (1823) ; f Wagl Mm. Psitt. p. 586 (juv.) (1832): 



Moritz, JViegm. Arch. 1837, i. p. o81 ; Hartl. Sys't. Tens, Ges. 



Mm. p. 87 i L844); P Cab, in Scnotnb. Guiana, iii. p. 724 (18481 



r'n.«. in Gi.'/i.<, Un. St. Nuv. Ejrp.il p. 180, pi. 22 (1865); Schley. 



1 invent, p. 6"> (1864). 

 PaittacuB amazonicus, Lath. [nee Linn.) Ind. Orn. i. pp. 110. 120, 



n. 114 (with V8P8./3 & y) (1790); K»hl, Const, Petit, p. 74 (part.) 



. 1*20). 



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