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liorii color, with the sides yellowish, the under is grayish-horn color, 

 yellowish at the base; feet blackish. 



Lengi'th (skin) from end of upper mandible over the culmen, 20 inches ; 

 from top of head, 18 inches; wing', d'}; tail, 0^; tarsus, 1. 



Habitat. — Dominica, West Indies. 



Type in jSTational Museum, Washington, received from Dr. H. A. 

 Alford Nicholls. 



Dr. Nicholls sent a second specimen in spirits, w^hich was made into 

 a skin, and on dissection proved to be a female. It does not differ ma- 

 terially in i)lumage from the other specimen, the blue of the face only 

 appearing a little duller. It is rather smaller; the bill and feet are 

 weaker. From a comparison of the two I think the specimen specially 

 described is a male. 



This new species in some respects resembles C. cyanopis (VieilL), said 

 to be from the Antilles, but the precise locality not known, and G. bou- 

 qnvfi (Bechat), from St. Lucia, all having blue heads. The first, C. cya- 

 nopis., is described as having the face dark ultramarine-blue, but it dif- 

 fers from the new species more especially in the top of the head and the 

 chin being dark blue, the throat and entire under surface wine-red, and 

 the larger wing coverts dark indigo-blue, besides minor differences. In 

 dimensions they are much the same. 



I have a fine specimen of C. bouqueti before me belonging to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, and kindly loaned by 

 Professor Allen. In this the blue is nearly of the same shade as in the 

 new species ; it is a little lighter in color on the front, but the blue does 

 not extend so far down on the throat, the lower part of which is scarlet ; 

 the breast and abdomen are vinous red intermixed somewhat with green; 

 the color above is a lighter green ; the black borders to the feathers of 

 the hind neck and back are broader; the colors generally are much 

 brighter ; it is a smaller species, with weaker feet and a blackish bill ; 

 it measures from the end of the upper mandible IGJ inches, though the 

 wings and tail fully equal in size those of C. nicholhi. 



I have named this fine species as a well-merited compliment to Dr. 

 Nicholls for his assiduous endeavors to supplement Mr. Obers work in 

 Dominica. 



The specimens of Ghrysotis were sent in March, 1879, with some other 

 species, to Martinique, to be forwarded to the Smithsonian, but they 

 remained there for about twelve months, and w ere not received in Wash, 

 ington until May of this year. Dr. Nicholls wrote Professor Baird at 

 that time concerning the parrot as follows : 



''The '■Ciceru'' (not '■ Cicero'') ijarrot. 



" The bird was shot at Campbell, and was bought in the market, where 

 it was exposed for sale as food. The feathers were off the neck when 

 bought. Skin was firmly adherent to a thick layer of fat. The speci- 

 men is scarcely worth sending. I do so, however, as the feathers near 

 the head are a different color to those of the Cicero parrot." 



