i886.] Cory on the. Birds of the West Indies. 4^3 



Zool. 1S54. .— ScL. P. Z. S. iSSi, p. 627.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. 



p. 20(1885). 

 Chiysotis nichollsi Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Miis. Ill, p. 254 (18S0). 



Sp. Char. — Front of head and throat dull purplish blue, palest on the 

 throat; the feathers of the cheeks green, tipped with bluish; upper 

 parts dark green, and the feathers tipped with dark brown ; quills 

 dark brown, tinged with green on the outer webs, and showing a 

 patch of red on the outer web of the tenth and eleventh feathers; a 

 patch of dull red mixed with jellow on the upper part of the breast 

 joining the throat ; underparts green, the feathers narrowly edged 

 with bluish; tail-feathers showing red at the base of the inner webs, 

 succeeded by dark green at the middle, and tipped with light green. 

 Length, 15; wing, 9.25; tail, 6.50; tarsus, .62; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Chrysotis versicolor (Mull.). 



Psittacns versicolor Mi":LL. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 78 (1766). 



Chrysotis cyanopsisYiiSiSQU, Die Papag. Mon. Bearb. II, p. 528 (1868). — 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 113 (1873). 

 CEuochriis versicolor Gray, Ilandl. Bds. II, p. 165 (1870). 

 Chrysotis houqueti ^c-L. P. Z. S. 1S74, p. 323; ib. 1875, p. 61. — Allen, 



Bull. Nutt, Orn. Club. V, p. 169 (iSSo). 

 Chrysotis versicolor ScL. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 627. — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 



20 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. — Forehead and in front of the eye dark blue; top of the head, 

 cheeks, and throat pale blue, the feathers tipped with black; a few 

 yellowish feathers at the base of the skull; breast red, the feathers 

 tipped with dark brown ; undei-parts red, the feathers tipped with 

 green; back and wing-coverts green, tipped with black; primaries 

 dark blue on the basal portion of the outer webs; rest of the pri- 

 maries dark brown ; a broad patch of red on the outer webs on the 

 tenth and eleventh feathers; outer tail-feathers showing bright red 

 at the base, a band of blue extending half the length of the feather, 

 and the terminal portion being 3'ellow ; under surface of tail-feathers 

 green, having the terminal portion pale greenish yellow, and show- 

 ing the red on the base of the outer feathers. 



Length, 18; wing, 11; tail, 8; tarsus, .75; bill, 1.40. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia. 



Family STRIGID.^. 



Genus Strix Linn. 

 Strix LiNN.EUS, Syst. Nat. I. p. 131 (1766). 



