320 PSITTAC1DJ5. 



Adult male. Green : darker, and with a bluish tinge, on the top 

 of the head, a little lighter on the underparts ; the under tail-coverts 

 yellowish green ; feathers of the neck slightly edged with black ; 

 primary-coverts red; first primary black, the remainder with the outer 

 webs, especially at the base, blue, edged with green ; secondaries 

 blue, with the base of the outer webs green ; greater under wing- 

 coverts and part of the inner webs of the quills below verditer-green ; 

 tail green, with the base of the inner webs of the lateral feathers 

 red ; the outer tail-feathers bluish on the outer web : " bill greyish 

 black, with a pale spot at the base of the upper mandible ; feet grey- 

 black ; iris dark brown; cere blackish grey " (Gosse). Total length 

 10-5 inches, wing 6-9, tail 3-5, bill 1-05, tarsus 0-63. 



Young. Has no red on the primary-coverts, which are green, and 

 no bluish tinge on the pileum. 



Hub. Jamaica. 



a, b. Ad. st, Jamaica. ?\ G . 0SS ° ^ n i, 



c. c? ad. sk. Freeman's Hall, Trelawny, Salvm-Godman Coll. 



June ( W. Osburri) . 



d. Ad. sk. Jamaica {W. Osburn). Sclater Coll. 



e r? iuv sk. Spanishtown, Mar. ( W. T. Smithsonian Institution 



March). [P.]. 



f. Sternum. Jamaica. P. Gosse [C.]. 



18. PACHYNUS. T 



Type. 



Graydidascalus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 142 . P. brachyurus. 



Graydidactylus, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. 



o-en. 27 .' P- brachyurus. 



Pachynus, Rchmo. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 352 P. brachyurus. 



liange. Upper Amazons. 



1. Pachynus brachyurus. 



Psittacus brachyurus, Temm. f Kuhl, in Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 72 



(18-^0) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 103 (1826) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 421, n. 20 (1846) ; id, List Psitt. Brit, Mus. p. 76 (1859). 

 Psittacus viridissimus, Sw. Zool. III. pi. 155 (1822-23) ; Isis, 1829, 



p. 1005. 

 Psittacus pumilio, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 41, t. xxix. f. 2 (1824) ; 



Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. t. 56. 

 Pionus brachyurus, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 613 (1832); Burnt. Syst, 



Ueb. ii. p. 194 (1856). 

 Psittacus pumilio Spixii, Bourj. Pen: pi. 56 (1837-38). 

 Graydidascalus viridissimus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, pp. 147, 



152, n. 122 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 156 ; Sousa, 



Mils. Nac. Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 13 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 



ii. p. 162, n. 8297 (1870). 

 Graydidactylus viridissimus, Bp. Natimannia, 1856, Consp. Psdt. 



u. 121. 

 Amazona brachyura, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 56 (1864) ; id. 



op. cit. Revue, p. 30 (1874). 



