412 Mr. P. L. Sclater on recently described 



Salvin and I followed Dr. Finsch^s arrangement very closely, 

 but allowed only 31 species, as, althongh we included Chry- 

 sotis bodini (Finsch, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 569, t. xlix.)^, described 

 subsequently to the completion of 'Die Papageien,'' we 

 omitted Chrysotis erythrura and C. bouqueti, of which neither 

 Dr. Finscli nor we had ever seen examples. Curiously 

 enough, both these two species have now become well known 

 to me. Chrysotis erythrura I first saw living at Amsterdam 

 (see P. Z. S. 1879, p. 438) ; and I have subsequently obtained 

 a living specimen of it for the Zoological Society [cf. P. Z. S. 

 1880, p. 23, t. ii.), besides a skin for my own collection. Of 

 Chrysotis bouqueti I shall speak further on. The valid species 

 of Chrysotis at the time of the compilation of the 'Nomen- 

 clator '' (1873) should therefore have been given as 33 instead 

 of 31. Since that period six other species have been de- 

 scribed, concerning each of which I have a few remarks to 

 offer, 



-f 1. Chrysotis lactifrons, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc. 

 i. p. 125 (1878), 



of which Mr. Lawrence has most kindly forwai'ded to me 

 the typical specimen for examination. 



This bird, which was formerly living in the Central Park, 

 New York, seems to me to be undoubtedly an example of 

 C. ochroptera (Gm.). It agrees well with an example of 

 that species in my own collection, and also with the plate in 

 Levaillant^s ' Parrots,^ 98 bis, which Dr. Finsch pronounces 

 to be '^ excellent." 



Mr. Lawrence' appears to have been misled by the words 

 in Finsch^s diagnosis, " speculo alari nullo," whereas C. 

 ochrocptera has a conspicuous red patch on the bases of the 

 inner secondaries. But Dr. Finsch clearly describes this 

 patch. 



The only certainly ascertained habitat of this Parrot seems 

 to be Venezuela. 



"f" 2. Chrysotis canipalliata. Cab. 



When at Berlin, in May last. Dr. Cabanis was kind enough 



• Cf. also Sclater, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 438, and 1880, p. 28. 



