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Clark, The West Indian Parrots. 343 



I propose, then, that the following species be admitted to a 

 place in the Lesser Antillean avifauna. 



Amazona violacea (Gme/.). 

 Guadeloupe Parrot. 



Characters. Nearest to A. imperialis of Dominica. Size large; head 

 and underparts violet or slaty gray. Wings green, varied with red and 

 yellow; longest quills black. 



Habitat. Guadeloupe. 



No other parrot has ever been mentioned as occurring in 

 Guadeloupe. 



Dominica. — Amazona imperialis Richm. A. bouqueti (Bechst.) . 



Martinique. — Although all the earlier writers mention parrots 

 on Martinique, they give us no detailed account of them. Labat 

 says, " The Parrot is too common a bird for me to stop to give a 

 description of it." He says later, however (II, p. 214) that the 

 parrot "of Dominica has some red feathers in its wings, in its tail, 

 and under the throat (A. bouqueti).'''' "That of Martinique {loc. 

 cit.) resembles it, except that the top of the head is slate color, 

 with a little red." 



Buff on says (Hist. Nat. Ois. VI, p. 214) : "The Parrot of Mar- 

 tinique, mentioned by Pere Labat, which has the top of the head 

 slaty with a few spots of red is, as is seen, different from our 

 ' White Headed Parrot ' {A. leucocephald) and M. Brisson states 

 without foundation that it is the same." 



For the sake of completing the list of this genus in the Lesser 

 Antilles, we may adopt, provisionally, for this species, the name of 



Amazona martinicana nom. nov. 



The following species have been erroneously credited to Mar- 

 tinique : 



Amazona sallaii (Scl.), D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 548, "Le Perro- 

 quet a ventre pourpre de la Martinique." 



A. leucocephala (Linn.), Brisson, Orn. IV, p. 242, 1760. 

 " Psittacus Martinicanus." 



