4^8 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [October 



Genus Chrysotis Swains. 



C/iiysofis "SwAiNsox, Zool. Journ. 1837." 



Chrysotis sallaei vScl. 



'•Psi/faciis /riicoLep//(iliis? Gmrl. Svst. Nat. I, p. 33S (178S)." 



C/nysotis sciilcei Sci.. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 224; il>. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 353 (1S62). 



— ScL. lV Salv. Norn. Avium Neoti". p. 113 (1873). — Cory, Bds. 



Haiti & San Domin,u;o, p. 115 (1885); il>. List Bds. W. I. p. 20 



(1S85). 

 Aniazona .s'«/Af/ SciiLEG. jNIus. Pays-Bas, Psitt. p. 58 (1864). 

 PsitiacHS {Clirysofis)sall(ciV,K\\^\:.'?\-. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 96 



(1866). 

 C/trysotis vcnfraiis Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 164 (1S70). 

 Chrysotis sai/ci Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, p. 154 (iSSiJ. 



Sp. Char. ATalc: — General plumage green; forehead white, extending in 

 front of the eye ; top of head blue, narrowly tipped with black; a 

 patch of black on the cheeks; abdomen and basal halfof tail-feathers 

 crimson, wanting upon the outer web of the outer tail-feather; 

 thighs pale blue in very adult birds, in most specimens green, the 

 blue being scarcely perceptible; primaries and secondaries dark 

 blue on tlie outer webs ; inner webs dark brown ; a small patch of 

 red on the throat, which does not appear to be constant. 



The sexes are apparently similar. 



Length, 10.50; wing, 8; tail, 4.50; tarsus, .60. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. 



Chrysotis vittata (Bodd.). 



PsittacHs viitatus Bodu. Tabl. PI. d' Aub. p. 49 (17S3). — Gray, Gen. Bds. 

 II, No. 24 (1844-49). — SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 



599- 

 Psittiiciis doiiiii/icoisis Gmva^. Syst. Nat. I. p. 343 (178S). — Vieill. Enc. 



Melh. p. 137.V — W'AiiL. Mon. Psitt. p. 597 (1S32J. 

 Psiftdcns Icucoccphaliis Ki:nL, Consp. p. 80 (1S21). 

 Chrvsotis doDiinicensis Bp. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 151. 

 Chrysotis vittata ScL. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 224. — (iKAV, List Psitt. p. S3 



(1859). — FiNSCH, Die Papag. Mon. Bearb. H, p. 515 (1867). — Gray, 



Handl. Bds. H, p. 165 (1870). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 



p. 113 (1873). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (18S5). 

 Amazona vittata ScHLEG. Mus. Pays-Bas, Psitt. p. 58 (1S64). 

 Chrysotis vittatiis Tayi^ok, Ibis, 1S64, p. 171. — Gundl. J. f O. 1S74, p. 



312; il>. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 228 (1878). 

 Chrysotis Bry.^nt, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X, p. 256 (1866). 



