302 rSITTACIDX. 



black ; checks yellow-green ; ear-coverts green like the underparts ; 

 metacarpal edge pale yellowish green ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts green ; wing-speculum, formed by the base of the outer webs 

 of the first five secondaries, red ; first quill entirely black, the 

 remaining quills black, with the outer webs green at the base and 

 deep blue towards the tips ; secondaries tipped with deep blue ; 

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

 the two central feathers ; the two outermost tail-feathers with the 

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

 the base of the outer web : bill dusky horn-colour ; feet dark grey. 

 Total length about 13 inches, wiDg 8, tail 4-3, bill 14, tarsus 07. 



Hub. Western Ecuador. 



This species is easily distinguished by the yellow tinge of the 

 green cheeks, by the light but bright red colour of the forehead 

 extending over the eyes and forming superciliary bands, and by the 

 lilac feathers of the crown having pale red edges. 



a. Ad. sk. Balzar Mountains, W. Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll.* 

 (Illingworth), 



26. Chrysotis autumnalis. 



The Lesser Green Parrot, Edw. Birds, iv. pi. 164 (1750). 

 Psittacus viridis minor occidentals, Edw. op. tit. p. 246 (1750). 

 Psittaeus americauus, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 293 (1760) ; ? Gulliv. P. Z. S. 



1875, p. 489. 

 Psittacus autumnalis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 147, n. 37 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. 



i. p. 345, n. 37 (excl. var.) (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 124, 



n. 122 (excl. var.) (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool viii. 2, p. 516 (1811) ; 



Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 98 (1811-12) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 327 



(second var.) (1817) ; Kuhl, Comp. Psitt. p. 79 (1820) ; Vieill. 



Enc. Mcth. iii. p. 1373 (1823) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 106 (1826) ; 



Less. Tr. <?Orn. p. 196 (1831) ; Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 741 (1831 i ; 

 Waal. Isis, 1831, p. 525; id, Man. Psitt. p. 591 (part.) (1832); 



Hartl. Syst. Vers. Ges. Mus. p. 87 (1844) ; Brehm, Man. d. Papag. 



t. 57 ; Burm. Si/st. Ueb. ii. p. 185 (syn. emend.) (1856) ; Schlea. 



Dierent. p. 65 (1864). 



* I aui only acquainted by the description with the following species recently 

 named : — 



Chrysotis hecki. 



Androglossa hecki, Rchnw. Journ.f. Orn. 1891, p. 217. 



Allied to C. diademata, but throat and anterior part of the lower cheeks 

 vinous-red; outermost tail-feathers with the base of the inner webs broadly 

 red. Feathers of the body with no black edges ; cheek-feathers near the upper 

 mandible partly with red edges; the blue tinge of the pileum and nape, pro- 

 duced by the blue edges of the feathers, inclining to dull rose-colour ; tip of 

 the tail yellow-green : upper mandible yellow, with the edges and tip, like the 

 lower mandible, blackish ; feet grey. 



Hab. Colombia. (?). 



Obs. The type is a bird living in the Zoological Gardens of Berlin. The dull 

 rose tinge of the feathers of the pileum and nape seems to ally this species to 

 ft Ulaoina. 



