314 psittacid^;. 



coverts yellowish green ; bastard-wing green, with the tips and 

 inner webs of the feathers edged with blue ; smaller upper wing- 

 coverts along the cubital edge and primary-coverts scarlet ; first 

 primary black, the next four green at the base and blue towards the 

 tips of the outer webs ; inner primaries and secondaries deep blue 

 on the outer webs and at the tips ; greater under wing-coverts and 

 inner webs of the quills below verditer-grecn ; two central tail- 

 feathers green, with the tips yellowish green ; the lateral ones 

 yellowish green, with the base crimson : bill yellow ; feet dull white. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, wing 7, tail 3-3, bill 1-1, tarsus 0-G. 



Adult female. Apparently like the male. 



Young. Sinciput blue, with no white ; lores yellow, with some 

 green scattered feathers ; periophthalmic region and cubital edge 

 green, with a few scattered red feathers ; primary-coverts entirely 

 green, or some green and some red. 



Ilah. Yucatan, Cozumel Island, and British Honduras. 



a. S ad. sk. Central America. Sclater Coll. 



b. S ad. sk. Central America. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



c. Ad. st. Honduras. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



d. e. S ? ad. sk. Northern Yucatan (G. F. Salv'in-Godman Coll. 



Gaumer). 

 /. Ad. sk. Me.rkla, Yucatan, May (G. F. Sclater Coll. 



Gaumer). 

 g-e. '. Ad. et iruru. Cozumel Island, Yucatan (G. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



sk. F. Gaumer). 



f, (j '. Ad. et juv. Cozumel Island, Yucatan (F. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



sk. C. J. Devi's), 



ti. Juv. st. Orange Walk, Brit. Hon- Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



duras, December (G. F. 



Gau?ner). 



37. Chrysotis ventralis. 



Psittacus Martinicanus cyanocephalos, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 251 (1760). 

 Perroquet a ventre pourpre de la Martinique, D' 'Aubent. PI. Fnl. 



548. 

 Psittacus ventralis, Mull. S. N. Svppl. p. 79 (1776) ; Cass. Fr. Ac. 



Fhilad. 1864, p. 240. 

 Le Papegai a ventre pourpre, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 242 (1779). 

 Ash-crowned Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 281, n. 88, var. C (1781). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus, var. S, Gm. S. N. i. p. 338 (1788). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus, var. y, Lath, huh Orn. i. p. 119 (1790). 

 ? Perroquet a face rouge (male jeune age), Levaill. Ferr. pi. 109 



(var. ?) (1805). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus, var., Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 332 (1817) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1377 (1823). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus (mas jun.), KuJil, Consp. Psitt. p. 80 (1820). 

 Psittacus leucocephalus, part., Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 197 (1831) ; Wayl. 



Mon. Psitt. p. 599 (1832). 

 Chrysotis salh-ei, Mat. P. Z. 8. 1857, pp. 224, 234 ; G. R. Gr. List 



Psitt. Brit. Mus. p.-83 (1859) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 79 ; id. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 353, n. 2110 (1862) ; Soma, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 10 



(1869) ; Mat. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Ncotrop. p. 113, n. 3 (1873) ; 



