iSS6.] Cory on the Birds of ike Wesi Indies. 45 9 



Sp. Char. Male: — A narrow band of red on the forehead ; upper plumage 

 green ; the feathers of the head and neck edged with dark brown, 

 heaviest on the neck; underparts green, lighter than the back; 

 yellowish green on the belly; the feathers on the breast edged with 

 dull brown ; primaries having the outer webs bright blue, lacking 

 on the first. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 10.50; wing, 7; tail, 4; tarsus, .60; bill, 1.35. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



Chrysotis collaria (Lixn.). 



Psitiaciis collariiis Linn. Syst. Nat. L p. 149 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 I^P- 347 (178S). 



Psittacus gutturalis MiJLL. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 78 (1776). 



Psittacus leucocepkalus, var. p. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. iiS (1790). — Wagl. 

 Mon. Psitt. p. 600 (1832). 



Psittacus leticocephalus Gray, Gen. Bds. II, No. 25 (1844-49). — Gosse, 

 Bds. Jam. p. 269 (1847). 



Piontis vinaceicollis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 241. 



Psittacus vinaceicollis Gray, Gen. Bds. Ill, App. p. 20 (1849). 



Chrysotis leucocephala Bp. Naum. 1S56, . 



Chrysotis vinaceicollis ScL. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 225. 



Chrysotis collaria ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 79; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 353 

 (1862). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 203. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 2S4. — FiNScn, Die Papag. Mon. Bearb. II, p. 

 517 (1868).— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 164 (1876).— Scl. & Salv. 

 Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 113 (1873). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Ja- 

 maica, p. no (1881).— Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 20 (1885). 



'■'■Chrysotis amazonicus,]\.\w. Bl. Cat. Bds. p. 11." 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head blue, the feathers indistinctly showing 

 black edges, fading into green on the nape; a narrow line of white 

 on the forehead ; the rest of upper surface bright green ; throat dull 

 red, some of the feathers narrowly edged with green ; cheeks green- 

 ish blue; rest of underpai'ts green ; tail green, most of the feathers 

 having the basal half of the inner webs dull green, faintly showing 

 on the outer webs, the red entirely wanting on the central feathers. 

 Length (skin), 11.50; wing 7 ; tail, 4.50. 



Habitat. Jamaica. 



Chrysotis leucocephala (Linn.). 



Psittacus leucoccphalus'L.iv.^. Syst. Nat. I, p. 100 (1758). — Aldrov. Orn. 



I, p. 670.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 338 (1788).— Wagl. Mon. Psitt. 



p. 599(1832). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 297 (1866). 

 Psittacus fitartinicanus Briss. Orn. IV, p. 242 (1760). 



