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Conurus), Porto Rico (Amazona, Conurus), the Bahamas (Ama- 

 zona), St. Thomas and St. Croix {Conurus); and (2) a Lesser 

 Antillean, with its center at Dominica (Ara, two species of Ama- 

 zona, Conurus), extending to Guadeloupe and Martinique {Ara, 

 Amazona, Conurus), and southward to St. Lucia (Amazona), St. 

 Vincent {Amazona), and Barbados (Conurus). We have no trust- 

 worthy evidence that any of the Psittaci ever occurred on Gren- 

 ada or the Grenadines (southern Lesser Antilles), Montserrat, 

 Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, St. Kitts, or on the small islands 

 •between St. Kitts and St. Croix (northern Lesser Antilles); thus 

 these two faunal areas (I am speaking of the Psittaci alone) are 

 entirely separated from each other, and the Lesser Antillean is 

 separated from the continental (as represented by Trinidad with 

 continental species of Ara, Amazona, Pionus, and Urochroma, 1 

 and Tobago with Amazona and Pionus) by another wide gap. 

 None of the South American forms occur nearer to the Greater 

 Antilles than Yucatan, and are there represented by quite differ- 

 ent species.' 2 



At the present day Ara has disappeared from these islands, 

 Amazona has been extirpated from Guadeloupe and Martinique, 

 and Conurus from all parts of its Lesser Antillean range. 



Greater Antilles. 



Fortunately, all the species of Amazona which have been re- 

 corded from the Greater Antilles have survived, though in greatly 

 diminished numbers, to the present day. They are : 



Jamaica : Amazona collaria (Linn.) ; A. agilis (Linn.). 



Cuba: A. leucocephala (Linn.), var. (a) albinistic, paradisi Linn. 



Bahamas : A. leucocephala bahamensis Bryant. 



Haiti : A. salhci (Scl.). 



Porto Rico: A. vittata (Bodd.). 



1 Conurus does not appear to occur in Trinidad, although recorded from 

 there by a number of authors. 



2 Comiropsis occurs in Florida ; the white-headed Greater Antillean parrots 

 appear to be allied to Amazona albifrons of Central America, and the Lesser 

 Antillean species to A. vinacea of Brazil. 



