290 I'SlTTACIDvE. 



Psittacus flavifrons, Serm. Obs. Zool. p. 126 (1804). 

 Psittacus poikilorhynchos, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 491 (1811). 

 ? Amazona icterocephala, var., Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 190 (1831). 

 Psittacus poecilorhynchus, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 581 (1832). 

 Chrysotis pcecilorhynchus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 422, n. 2 (1846) ; 



bclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 352, n. 2104 (1862). 

 Chrysotis ochrocephala, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, 



n. 92; P Souanci, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 154; Bp. Nau- 



mannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 82 ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. 



Mm. p. 78 (1859) ; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 584 (186S) ; G. R. 



Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 163, n. 8314 (1870) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 114, n. 28 (part. 



1873, pp. 466, 634, 1874, p. 587, 1875, p. 343 ; Tacz. $ Berl, 



P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 109, 114 ; Salv. Ibis, 1886, p. 69; Tacz. Om. Per. 



iii. p. 224, Tabl. p. 100 (1886). 

 Chrysotis pcecilorhyncha, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 151, 



n. 95 ; Souanci, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 154 ; Bp. Nau- 



mannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 81 ; Souanci, Icon. Perr. pi. xxviii. 



(1857) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 567; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisb. Psittaci, p. 11 (1869) ; Sclat. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 300. 

 Amazona aestiva, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 54, ind. ii. 7 



(var.), 8, 9 (1864) ; id. op. cit. Revue, p. 27 (part.) (1874). 

 Androglossa ochrocephala, Rcknic. Journ. f. Om. 1881, p. 378 



(Consp. Psitt. p. 218) ; id. Vogelbild. t. xxxii. f. 9 (1883). 

 Chrysotis mercenaria, Sclat. (nee Tschudi) P. Z. S. 1882, p. 789 ; id. 



List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 350 (1883). 



Adult. Green, upper tail-coverts and under surface yellowish 

 green, the feathers with narrow blackish edges ; crown jonquille- 

 ycllow ; frontal edge pale glaucous-green ; hairy feathers round the 

 nostrils black ; bend of the wing and wing-speculum red ; metacarpal 

 edge yellow-green, sometimes with red marks on the lower part ; 

 first primary black ; the remaining primaries also black, but with the 

 outer webs deep blue on the apical half and green on the basal one : 

 secondaries with blue tips ; tail green, with a broad yellow-green 

 band at the tip, narrower on the two central tail-feathers, the 

 lateral ones with a red spot at the base and a green band across the 

 middle of the inner webs : bill blackish, with the base of the upper 

 mandible flesh-colour ; feet dark grey ; iris red, with an inner 

 yellow ring. Total length about 14-5 inches, wing 8-5, tail 5, 

 bill 1-35, tarsus 0-7. 



Young. Yellow colour of the crown more restricted or entirely 

 wantiug, and less red on the bend of the wing, where sometimes it 

 is completely absent. 



Hub. Venezuela and Trinidad, Colombia, Ecuador, and Eastern 

 Peru. 



Taczanowski mentions a specimen, from unrecorded locality, 

 having the whole forehead and the anterior part of the lores yellow, 

 which colour extends on the pileum only as far as the eyes and not 

 to the occiput (?), the wing-speculum larger, and the plumage 

 yellowish green. The last specimen in the following list seems to 

 resemble the one mentioned by Taczanowski, only it has also the 



