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Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [October 



last primary, dull towards the terminal portion, becoming bright 

 scarlet on the basal half; a patch of red on the edge of the carpus; 

 quills brown; tail purplish-brown; under surface of tail green. 

 Length, 17 ; wing, 11 ; tail, 7; tarsus, .75; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Chrysotis guildingi (Vic). 



Psittaciis ouildingi Vio. P. Z. S. 1S36, p. So.— Gray, Gen. Bds. No. 28 



(1844-49). 

 Chrysotis gHiIdi)igiV>v. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1S54. p- 151. — Fixscii, Die Papag. 



Mon.Bearb. II, p. 559 (186S).— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 164 (1870).— 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 113 (1S73). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, pp. 193, 4S7 (1S78). — Lister, Ibis, iSSo, p. 42. — ScL. 



P. Z. S. iSSi, p. 627.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 20 (1S85). 

 Amazoiia giii/dii/gi ^CM-L-EG. Mus. Pays-Bas, p. 49 (1864). 



Sp. Char. — Top of the head and cheeks yellowish white, shading into 

 vellowish orange on the throat, and into bluish feathers with black 

 edgings on the sides of the neck and nape; back pale yellowish 

 brown, feathers edged with dull black; underpai'ts pale reddish 

 brown, feathers shading into green at the ends, and tipped with 

 black on the belly; under surface of tail dull orange, pale yellow at 

 the tip, feathers banded across the middle by a broad stripe of green ; 

 upper surface of tail-feathers yellow at base and tip, showing a band 

 of blue across the centre; primaries dark blue, the basal half of the 

 first five yellow, the rest shading into orange on the outer webs of 

 the basal half and showing less and less yellow on the inner webs; 

 under surface of wing yellow; greenish on the under wing-coverts; 

 bill pale. 



The sexes are apparently similar. 

 Length, 19; wing. 10.75; tail, 7; tarsus, .75. 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Chrysotis bouqueti (Bechst.). 



Psit/aciis anu/sianis Mvhh. Syst. Nat. Suppi. p. 79 (1766). 



Psiffitrns iiiifiimnalis v^r. p. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 345 (178S).— Lath. 



Ind. Orn. p. 124 (1790). 

 Psiftaciis boin/ncti Bkch?,t. Lath. Ueb. p. 99 (1793).— Kuhl, Consp. p. 76 



(1821). 

 Psiftaciis cyiuicocapillus ViEiLL. Enc. Meth. p. 1373. — Burm. Syst. Ueb. 



II, p. 186. 

 Psittaciis cirrulifroiis Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII, p. 515.— Voigiit, Cuv. 



Ueb. I S3 1, p. 741- 

 Chrysotis cyancoccphalus Swains. Class. Bds. II, p. 301 (1837). 

 Chrvsofis bouqueti Gk.w, Gen. Bds. II, No. 11 (1S44-49).— Br. R*^^'- ^ag 



