344 Clark, The West Indian Parrots.. VoS. 



St. Lucia. — Amazona versicolor (Mull.). 

 St. Vincent. — A. guildingii (Vig.). 1 



The species of Amazona known from the West Indies are : 

 Amazona agilis (Linn.). Jamaica. 

 Amazona collaria (Linn.). Jamaica. 



" caymanensis (Cory). Grand Cayman. 



" leucocephala (Linn.). Cuba. 



" " bahamensis Bryant. Bahamas. 



" sallaei (Scl.). Haiti. 



Amazona vittata (Bodd.). Porto Rico. 

 Amazona violacea (Gmel.) Guadeloupe? 1 

 imperialis Richm. Dominica. 

 Amazona bouqueti (Bechst.). Dominica.' 2 



martinicana nom. nov. Martinique. 

 Amazona versicolor (Mull). St. Lucia. 

 Amazona guildingii (Vig.). St. Vincent. 



1 Concerning parrots in Barbados, Sir Hans Sloanesays (Nat. Hist. Jamaica, 

 I, p. 34. 1707) : "Turner (ap. Purchas. p. 1265) found Hogs, Pigeons, and 

 Parrots here (Barbados). This is the only statement I can find of their occur- 

 rence on that island by a person who actually visited the place. Albin (Nat. 

 Hist. Birds, III, p. 11, pi. 11, 1738, "The Barbados Parrot"). Edwards 

 (Birds, IV, p. 162, 1751, "The Great Green Parrot from the West Indies" 

 [Barbados]; toe. cit. p. 246,' 'Psittacus viridis major occidentalis "). Latham 

 (Gen. Syn. I, p. 2S4, No. 90, 1781 "The Ash-fronted Parrot" [Barbados] ; 

 Gen. History, II, p. 238, 1822). Brisson (Orn. IV, p. 236, 1760, "Le Per- 

 roquet des Barbades .... Psittacus Barbadensis ") and Gmelin (Syst. Nat I, p. 

 339, 1788 " Ps\ittacus barbadensis"). These authors all give a parrot as hav- 

 ing inhabited Barbados. The species as described is referable in all cases 

 to varieties of A. (estiva or A. ochroptera. Possibly there was an Amazona on 

 the island at the time of its colonization allied to these species, but there is 

 no definite proof that such was the case. If there were parrots there, they 

 might very well have been members of this group, as species occur on 

 Trinidad and on Tobago. The evidence of the occurrence of parrots on 

 Grenada is very poor, the single reference (Dutertre, Hist. Gen. des Antilles 

 habitees par les Francois, II, p. 249, 1667) possibly referring to Tobago. 



2 Extinct. 



