312 PSITTACID^E. 



Chrysotis albifrons, Bp. Rev. et Mar/, de Zoo!, 1854, p. 151, n. 87 ; 



Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 153 ; Bp. Naumannia, 



1856, Consp. Psitt, n. 91 ; Souatice, Icon. Pen: pi. xxx. (1857) ; 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 359 ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. 



p. 83 (1859) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 138 ; Taylor, Ibis, 



1860, p. 121; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 526 (1868); Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 131 (1868), p. 207 (1869) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisb. Psittaci, p. 11 (1869) ; Frantz. Journ.f. Om. 1869, p. 366; 



Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. Brem, 1870, p. 352 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list. 



ii. p. 165, n. 8333 (1870) ; Salv. Ibis, 1871, pp. 87, 96 ; Lawr. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 251 ; Gieb. Thes. Om. i. p. 679 (1872) ; Sclat. 8f Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 113, n. 8 (1873) ; Salv. Lbis, 1874, 



p. 327 ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 296 (Mazatlan) (1874) ; 



id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 37 (Tehuantepec) (1875) ; Sclat. 



P. Z. S. 1875, p. 157 ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. i. f. 8 (1878) ; Sclat. 



Ibis, 1880, p. 378, 1881, p. 113; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p. 346 (1883) ; Boucard, P. Z. S, 1883, p. 455 ; Nutting, Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 376, 389 (Nicaragua) (1883) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, 



p. 192 ; Salv. 8f Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 242. 

 Amazona albifrons, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 59 (1864) ; id. op. 



cit. Revue, p. 28 (1874) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 588 (1887). 

 Chrysotis apophoenica, Rchnw. Om. Centralbl. 1880, p. 16 ( 5 ) ; id. 



Journ.f. Om. 1880, p. Ill ; Sclat. Ibis, 1880, p. 378, 1881, p. 113. 

 Androglossa albifrons, ifrtoza Journ.f. Om. 1881, p. 375 (Consj). Psitt. 



p. 215). 



Adult male. Green ; feathers of the neck and back with narrow 

 dusky edges ; lores and periophthalmic region red ; forehead white, 

 sometimes more or less tinged with yellow ; vertex blue ; upper 

 tail-coverts yellowish green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 bright scarlet ; primaries black, with the outer web green at the base 

 and blue towards the tip ; secondaries blue on the outer webs ; 

 greater under wing-coverts and inner webs of the quills below 

 verditer-green : tail green, with a yellowish-green band at the tip, 

 gradually broader towards the outer tail-feathers ; the four outermost 

 tail-feathers with the base red : " iris yellowish white ; bill light 

 yellow; cere and feet dull white" (JSumichrast) ; naked skin round 

 the eyes white. Total length about 10 - 5 inches, wing 6*3, tail 3-4, 

 bill 1-1, tarsus 0-6. 



Youmj or female. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 bastard- wing and primary-coverts green, with no red. 



Hab. Western Mexico from Sonora to Chiapas, Northern Yucatan, 

 and Guatemala on both sides of the Cordilleras, Nicaragua, and 

 Western Costa Rica. 



The specimens from Sonora have a bluish tinge on all the green 

 feathers; the forehead is white, while in the majority from the 

 other localities, except those from Northern Yucatan, the white of 

 the forehead is tinged with yellowish. 



a. Ad. st. Mexico. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



c-f. $ 5 ad. sk. Quiriego Sonora, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April, May (W. Lloyd), 

 ff, h. c? $ ad. sk. Sierra de Alamos, Sonora, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, May ( W. Lloyd). 



