17. CHRYSOTIS. 317 



dull red, with the edges of the feathers green ; under tail-coverts 

 yellowish green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and outer webs of 

 the quills blue ; smaller under wing-coverts green, the greater ones 

 and inner webs of the quills below verditer-blue ; tail above green, 

 with the inner webs of the lateral feathers yellowish green towards 

 the tips and red at the bases ; outer web of the outer tail-feather 

 blue: bill and cere whitish ; feet flesh-colour ; iris brownish yellow. 

 Total length about 13 inches, wing 7*5, tail 4 - o, bill 1, tarsus 065. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hah. Cuba. 



Some specimens show the white feathers of the sinciput tinged 

 with rose-colour. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Cuba. Zoological Society's Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Masssena Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. } W. Indies. — Dallas, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Cuba. Sclater Coll. 



e. Skeleton. [Martinique.] 

 /. Sternum and sca- 

 pular girdle. 



39. Clirysotis caymanensis. 



Clirysotis caymanensis, Con/, Auk, iii. p. 497 (1886) ; id. Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 125 ; id. Birds of W. Lid. p. 297 (1889). 



" Resembles G. leucoce±malus, but differs from that species greatly 

 in the markings of the throat and head ; forehead dull yellowish 

 white, not reaching the eye ; feathers of the head bluish green, 

 tipped and edged with dull black ; cheeks bright crimson-red, the 

 feathers mixed with green in some specimens ; throat pale red, the 

 feathers broadly edged with yellow ; undorparts bluish green, marked 

 with dull red on the sides and belly ; the feathers of the breast and 

 belly edged with dull black ; quills heavily edged with blue on the 

 outer webs, inner webs dark brown ; tail yellowish green, the outer 

 web of outer feather pale blue, the basal portion of inner webs 

 heavily marked with dark red. Length 11 inches, wing 8, tail 5, 

 tarsus 0-70, bill 1-05." {Cory.) 



Hab. Grand Cayman, West Indies. 



a. 5 imm. sk. Grand Cayman, Aug. ( TV. R. Richard- Sclater Coll. 

 son). 



The only specimen examined is immature and in bad condition, 

 so that I have been obliged to copy Cory's description. 



40. Clirysotis bahainensis. 



Psittacus (Chrvsotis) collarius (var. bahamensis), Bryant, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hut. xi. p. 65 (1SG0). 

 Clirysotis collaria, ( '<>nj {nee Linn.), Birds Bahama Is/, p. 123 (1880) ; 



Bolle, Journ.f. Om. ISM, p. 107. 



