254 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PARROT OF THE GENUS 
' CHRYSOTIS, FROM THE ISLAND OF DOMINICA. 
By GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 
Chrysotis nichollsi. 
MALE ?—The general color of the plumage 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 ¢olor has a grayish cast; the feathers of the top of 
the head are varied with bright green and azure blue and are narrowly 
bordered with black; the primaries have their inner webs black, the 
first primary is entirely black, the second and third have their outer 
webs dark blue for three-quarters their length, terminating with black, 
the other primaries have their outer webs green for most of their length, 
passing 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 yellow 
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 differ 
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- 
