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Among the earlier authors we find other species, which have 

 been erroneously credited to these islands ; these are : 

 Jamaica : Amazona (estiva (Linn.), Brisson, Orn. IV, p. 277, 1760, 

 "Psittacus amazonicus jamaicensis." 1 



A. amazonica (Linn.), Brisson, /. c. p. 233, "Psittacus 

 Jamaicensis icterocephalus " (variety). 



Psittacus erithacus Linn., Linnaeus, Syst. nat. I, p. 144, no. 

 24, 1766. 2 

 Cuba: A. versicolor (Mull.), D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 360, "Le Per- 



roquet de la Havane." 

 Haiti: A. vittata (Bodd.), D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 792, "Le Perro- 

 quet de St. Domingue." 



Lesser Antilles. 



Guadeloupe. — Dutertre, in his ' Histoire Gemerale des Isles 

 des Christophie, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres 

 dans 1' Amerique ' (Paris, 1654), says (p. 298): "The Parrot of 

 Guadeloupe is almost as large as a fowl. The beak and the eye 

 are bordered with carnation. All the feathers of the head, neck, 

 and underparts are of a violet color, mixed with a little green and 

 black, and changeable like the throat of a pigeon.^ All the upper 

 part of the back is brownish green. The long quills are black, 

 the others yellow, green, and red, and it has on the wing-coverts 

 two rosettes of rose color. When it erects the feathers of its 

 neck, it makes a beautiful ruff about its head, 4 which it seems to 

 admire, as a peacock its tail. It has a strong voice, talks very 

 distinctly, and learns quickly if taken young. It lives on the wild 



1 I have only given one reference in each case. 



8 The habitat is given by Linnaeus as Guinea and Jamaica. The species 

 was probably often brought to Jamaica in slave ships and reshipped to 

 Europe. 



3 It is not remarkable that the bird is described as iridescent ; freshly killed 

 birds of several species of Amazona (perhaps most noticeable in A. guildingii) 

 examined in the field appear to possess this quality to a greater or lesser 

 degree. 



4 Other species of Amazona when excited can raise a "ruff" about their 

 neck. I have noticed it particularly in A. guildingii. 



