45 6 



Cory on ike Birds of the West Indies. [October 



Conurits evofs Guxdl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 297 (iS66);/'3. 



J. f. O. 1S74, p. 164; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VIII, p. 229 



(187S). 

 Evopsifta giiyancnsis Gray, Handl. Bds. IF, 146 (1S70). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage green, dark above, light beneath ; the 

 head dotted here and there with small touches of bright red; this 

 marking does not seem at all constant; a broad patch of vermillion 

 red on the under wing-coverts, extending upon the carpus; shafts of 

 wing and tail-feathers brownish black; bare skin around the eve 

 bluish white. 



The sexes are apparently' similar. 



Length (skin), 9.75; wing, 5.50; tail, 5.50; tarsus, .50. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Conurus xantholaemus Scl. 



Coiiunis xantJiolaniiis Scl. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. IV, p. 225 ; ib. Cat. 

 Am. Bds. p. 348 (1S62). — A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1S59, P- 374- — 

 Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i860, p. 377. — Taylor, Ibis, 

 1864, p. 171.— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 14S (1870).— Cab. J. f. O. 

 1S79, P- 222.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (1885). 



Conurus xanthogenius ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 112 (1873). 



Sp. Q,\\\v.. Male: — Fore-head, sides of the head and chin bright orange; 

 rest of upper surface bright green; undcrparts yellowish green, 

 marked with orange on the bellv and abdomen ; primaries blue, 

 showing green on the outer webs, and having the ^hafts and tips 

 brown; upper surface of tail green; under surtace of tail yellow; bill 

 dark. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 9.50; wing, 6; tail, 5; tarsus, .35; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. St. Thomas and St. Croix. 



Conurus nanus (Vig.). 



Psittacara nana ViG. Zool. Journ. V, p. 273 (1830). — Lear, Parr. pi. 12. 



— WAtiL. Mon. Psitt. p.' 640 (1S32). 



Conurus ;/r/;/«5 Gray, Gen. Bds. II, No. 32 (1S44-49). — Souaxce, Icon. 

 Pcrr. pi. 12. fig. I. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62. p. 203. — Scl. Cat. Am. 

 Bds. p. 349 (1862). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1803, p. 2S4. 



— FiNSCH, Die Papag. Mon. Bcarb. I, p. 520 (1867). — Gray. Hand!. 

 Bds. H, p. 148 (1S70). — Scl. lV Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 112 

 (1S73). — A. ^: E. Newton, llandb. Jamaica, p. 110 (18S1). — Cory, 

 List Bds. \V. I. p. 20 (18S5). 



Conurus fiaviventcr Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 263 (1847;. 



