414 Mr. P. L. Sclater on rtcently described Parrots. 



nation the typical specimen of this Parrot, belonging to the 

 National Museum at Washington. 



It has so happened that one of the specimens of the Chry- 

 sotis from the island of St. Lucia, in the Zoological Society's 

 collection, which I have hitherto called Chrysotis houqueti *, 

 has died ; and I have thus been able to examine it carefully, 

 and to compare it with Mr. Lawrence's C. nichoUsi. The 

 result which I have arrived at is, that the species of St. 

 Lucia, which I have hitherto called C. houqueti, is really not 

 that species, but the allied species C. versicolor (Miiller, ex 

 PL Enl. 360 f) , and that Mr. Lawrence's C. nichoUsi, from 

 Dominica, is the true C. bouqueti. The difficulty of deter- 

 mining living specimens exactly must be my excuse for having 

 made this error, and, I fear, of having led Mr. Lawrence into 

 committing another. 



The two species are, in fact, very closely allied, being 

 generally green, with a blue face and a red speculum. But 

 the coverts of the primaries are blue in C. versicolor and 

 green in C. bouqueti. This has led Dr. Finsch to place them 

 in different sections of the genus Chrysotis, whereas they are 

 clearly representative species in the neighbouring islands, 

 and ought to stand next to one another. 



— 6. Chrysotis cceligena, Lawrence, Ibis, 1880, p. 237 ; 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 68, t. ix. 



This is an excellent species, allied to C. dufresniana of 

 Brazil. Mr. Whitely has recently obtained many examples 

 of it at Bartica Grove, British Guiana. 



It follows therefore that, according to my opinion, of the 

 six supposed species of Chrysotis described since 1873, two 

 only [C. panamensis and C. cceligena) are valid. This would 

 make the whole number of species of Chrysotis now known 

 to science 35. 



* r. Z. S. 1874, p. 323 ; 1875, p. 61, t. xx. et p. 316; and List of An. 

 (1879), p. 295. 



t Chrysotis cyanopis, Finsch, Papag, ii. p. 323. 



