17. CHRYSOTIS. 301 



tip ; tips of the secondaries deep blue ; greater under wing-coverts 

 and inner webs of the quills towards the base below green ; tail- 

 feathers green, with a broad yellow-green band at the tip, narrower 

 on the two central feathers ; bases of the lateral tail-feathers red 

 on the inner webs, the outer tail-feather edged with blue at the 

 base of the outer web : bill dusky, with the base of the upper 

 mandible whitish horn-colour; feet dusky; "iris red" (Carmiol). 

 Total length about 14 iuches, wing 8, tail 5, bill 1"2, tarsus 0*75. 



Female. Like the male. 



Young. Scarcely any red at the base of the outer tail-feathers. 



Hub. From Nicaragua, Costa Eica, Yeragua, and Panama, in 

 Central America, to Colombia, and also to Rio Negro in the Amazon 

 Valley. 



This species is very much like C. dlademata (Spix), from 

 which it differs iu having (1) the frontal red band not turning to 

 dark garnet on the lores ; (2) the feathers of the crown, occiput, and 

 hind neck green with lilac edges ; (3) the occiput without yellow 

 tinge ; (4) the cheeks and the under surface distinctly yellowish 

 green. Some specimens show a reddish tinge on the chin. 



a. $ ad. sk. Peje, Costa Rica, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Carnnol). 



b. Ad. sk. Costa Rica (J. Carmiol). Sclater Coll. 



c. d. $ 2 a d- sk. Calovevora, Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. cJ 5 ad. sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui {Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ;/. Ad. sk. Panama (McLeannan). Sclater Coll. 



h, i. cJ § ad. sk. Panama [McLeannan). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A. Ad. sk. Lion Hill Station, Isthmus Salvin-Godman Coll. 



of Panama (0. Salvin). (Type of species.) 



/. Ad. sk. Remedios, U.S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon). 



?«.Ad.sk. Rio Negro (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



25. Chrysotis lilacina. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 



Amazona lilacina, Less. Echo du Mend Savant, 1844, t. 2. no. 30, 



p. 394 (Guayaquil)*; id. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 194 (1847). 

 Chrvsotis coccineifrous, Bp. Naumannia, 1850, L'onsp. Psitt. n. 98 



(part.). 

 Chrysotis viridigenalis, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 104, n. 8327 



(part., Ecuador) (1870) : Sclat. >$• Sale. Nomena. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 1 1 ->, n. 14 (pari., Ecuador) (1873); Tacz. $ Berl. (nee Cass.) 



P. Z. S. 1885, p. 119 (Ecuador). 

 Chrvsotis sp., Tacz. # Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 109, 114, 115, 121 



(Naranchito, W. Ecuador). 



Adult. Green, with the feathers edged with black ; under surface 

 lighter green ; forehead and lores red, which colour extends over the 

 eyes, forming a superciliary stripe ; pileum, except the forehead, 

 lilac, with the bases of the feathers green and the narrow edges 

 reddish ; occiput and hind neck green, with the feathers edged with 



* This quotation, given by Lesson himself in the ' Descr. Mamm. etc.,' is 

 wron£i and I have not been able to find the ri^ht one. 



