254 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



DICiiiCRIPTION OF A NETV SPECIES OF PARROT OF THE OFIVVS 

 €HRVSOTIS, FROM THE ISIiAND OF DOITIIIVICA. 



By OEOROE ]\. LAWRENCE. 



Chrysotis nichoUsi. 



Male ? — The general color of the pluraage is grass-green, darker above 

 and on the breast and abdomen tinged with yellow; the feathers of the 

 hind neck and back are bordered rather narrowly with black, those of 

 the wing coverts are without the black borders; the feathers of the 

 lower part of the throat, of the upper part of the breast, and of the sides 

 of the neck change to verditer-green on a side view and are edged with 

 black ; the bases of some of the feathers of the breast and abdomen are 

 dull red, and they are just perceptibly edged with black; the sides are 

 dark green ; the fore part of the head as far as upon a line with the an- 

 terior angle of the eye, lores, sides of the head, and the throat are of a 

 medium shade of ultramarine-blue, lighter in color on the throat; in 

 some lights the blue color has a grayish cast; the feathers of the top of 

 the head are varied with bright green and azure blue and are narroM ly 

 bordered with black ; the primaries have their inner webs black, the 

 first primary is entirely black, the second and third have their outer 

 Avebs dark blue for three-quarters their length, terminating with black, 

 the other primaries have their outer webs green for most of their length, 

 Ijassing into dark blue for a short space, and ending with black; the ex- 

 treme ends are narrowly margined with whitish ash ; the wing speculum 

 is of a bright scarlet red, occupying a space on the outer webs of the 

 first three secondaries of about three inches; there is a small j^ellow 

 mark where the red joins the terminal dark blue of these feathers, which 

 have the outer webs green at their bases ; the other secondaries have 

 their outer webs green, with a subterminal blue spot, and ending with 

 black; the fourth secondary has an elongated yellow mark on the mid- 

 dle of the outer web; all the secondaries have their inner webs black; 

 the outer webs of the tertiaries are green, the inner are black with their 

 ends green; the wing coverts are of the same color as the back, but the 

 concealed portions of the inner webs of the greater coverts are black ; 

 the outer edge of the wing is dull light yellow; the quills underneath 

 have the basal two-thirds of their length dull verditer-blue, the terminal 

 portion is black; the under wing coverts are green; the first outer tail 

 feather has the outer web dark blue for two-thirds its length, the ter- 

 minal third is greenish yellow ; the inner web is scarlet at the base for 

 nearly half its length, which color is separated from the yellowish end 

 by a space of dull green ; the second, third, and fourth feathers difler 

 from the first only in having the basal parts of their outer webs green ; 

 the central tail feathers are dark green, ending with dark yellowish 

 green; upper tail coverts dark green, with their ends yellowish; the 

 under tail coverts are yellowish green ; the upper mandible is whitish- 



