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green ; speculum formed by the bases of the outer 

 webs of the first three or four secondaries, red ; 

 primaries black, but all excepting the first, and the 

 primary-coverts, deep blue towards base of outer webs ; 

 outermost secondaries blue towards the tips ; tail with 

 a broad terminal belt of greenish-yellow, central 

 feathers otherwise green, but the lateral feathers with 

 the basal half of outer webs blue, deeper on the out- 

 side feather, the three outer ones also with a red spot 

 at the base of the inner webs ; front of crown, sides of 

 liead, and throat, blue; forehead, lores, and cheeks 

 with a purple tinge ; a broad red belt across the lower 

 throat : breast and abdomen yellowish-green, each 

 feather dull pale-red at base and towards the black 

 edge ; under tail-coverts and smaller under wing-coverts 

 yellowish-green ; greater under wing-coverts and base 

 of inner webs of flights below verditer-blue ; tail below 

 tilack towards bate, with three red basal spots as 

 above ; beak horn-blackish, yellowish at base of upper 

 mandible ; irides orange. Female probably with 

 shorter beak. Hab. , St. Lucia, West Indies. 



I have found no notes on the wild life of this 

 Amazon ; it was formerly wrongly identified in the 

 'Zoological Society's list as C. bouqueti. The first 

 example was purchased for the Gardens in 1874, and 

 Iwo more were obtained in the year following. 



BOUQUET'S AMAZON (Chryaoti* 



Green, the feathers with black edges ; tipper tail- 

 coverts yellowish-green ; primary coverts blackish-green 

 tiuuvd with blue at the tips; first primary black, the 

 others deep blue at -base of inner webs and tinged with 

 green at the edges ; first three secondaries with a red 

 spot at base of outer webs, forming a speculum ; all the 

 secondaries tinged with blue towards the tips ; lateral 

 tail-feathens with a broad greenish-yellow belt at the 

 tips; central feat-heirs with narrow tips of the same 

 colour ; first four feathers red at base of inneir webs, 

 outer leather with blue edging to the base of the outer 

 web; forehead, lores, orbital region, front of cheek-. 

 and throat purplish-blue ; a red spot on middle of lower 

 throat-; greater under wing-coverts, verditer-green ; 

 flights below with the inner webs verditer-blue ; under 

 tail-coverts yellowish-green; tail below with the ter- 

 minal half yellowish-green, the inner webs of the lateral 

 feathers red at base ; beak pale horn-colour, yellowish 

 at ba.se of upper mandible ; feet dusky ; iridee orange. 

 Female 'not 'differentiated. Hab., Dominica. West 

 Indies. 



As already noted, Mr. Clark stated that this species 

 was <'xt-iiu:t. In ieplv to this Mr. A. Hyatt-Verill wrote 

 to Count Salvadori (see The. /fox, 1907.' pp. 365, 366) as 

 follows : " Dm ing the past three years I have resided 

 in Dominica, and have made extensive collections of 

 the birds. I have found (.'/iri/>ifi* li/nn/iirti particularly 

 abundant and easy to procure, and have secured over 

 forty (specimens. Graf von Berlepsch has a number 

 which I sent him. and others were disposed of to 

 various collectors. This species is increasing rapidly, 

 and spreading over the whole island. On a former visit, 

 fifteen years ago, I found Bouquet's Parrot much rarer 

 than ('. au</u.<ta. whereas at the present time it is far 

 more common. The birds are found within a few miles 

 of Roseau, and are particularly abundant in the Lagoon 

 valley in the central part of the island, where they 

 are very tame and feed near the houses of the planters 

 in enormous nooks. In fact, at that place I have shot 

 them from the verandahs of the houses. They are killed 

 in large numbers for the market, and during the open 

 -season ca:u be bought for Is. each. 



" How Mr. Clark could have been misled into sup- 

 posing this Parrot extinct is inexplicable to me." 



Although this bird appears never previously to have 

 reached the Lou-don Zoological Gardens (the species 

 entered under that name in the list having, as already 

 stated, been C. versicolor], the Hon. and Rev. Canon 

 Dutton received a specimen in June, 1900, which he 

 subsequently sent to the Gardens. He says of it : " My 

 bird was tame enough to let me scratch its head, but 

 beyond that had nothing to recommend it. It was not 

 affectionate, it never said a word, and uttered cease - 

 lesslv a cry which, although unlike that of any other 

 Amazon, was not the less wearisome on that account." 

 (The Avinilturaf Mat/aziiir, First -Series, Vol. VII.. 

 p. 110.) An excellent coloured plate accompanies Canon 

 Dutton's article. 



GUATEMALAN AMAZON (C'Jirytuti* </nat<'malcE). 



Green, upper surface mealy ; feathers of hind neck 

 edged with blackish ; first primary 'black, the rest also 

 black, but with the basal half of the outer webs green, 

 next to which colour the black is more or less suffused 

 with blue ; base of first four secondaries red, forming 

 a. speculum ; tips of secondaries black, more or less 

 tinged with blue ; tail with the terminal half yellow or 

 greenish-yellow ; crown and etripe over eye bluish ; 

 back of crown slightly tinged with lila-cine-grey ; cheeks 

 and under-surfaee of body yellowish-green ; greater 

 under wing-coverts verditer-blue with yellowish edges ; 

 inner webs of flights below partly verditer-green ; beak 

 bluish-black, with a yellowish or reddish spot at base 

 of upper mandible ; feet greenish-ashy ; irides orange- 

 red. Female with a broader beak, especially at the 

 base, the terminal hook -coarser. Hab. , " Southern 

 Mexico and Central America, as far as 'Honduras an-ct 

 Nicaragua (?) ." (Salvadori.) 



I have no notes on the wild life of this Amazon in 

 any work in my library. Ru?,s -speaks of it as rarer in 

 the trade than Natterer's Amazon, yet the London Zoo- 

 logical Society has had several examples, the first being 

 purchased in 1870. 



MEALY AMAZON (Chrysalis farinosa). 



The adult male above is green, having a mealy appear- 

 ance ; below paler, and yellowish on the under tail- 

 (MVfits : forehead and cheeks yellowish ; centre of crown 

 yellow, frequently finely spotted with red; feathers of 

 back of head, nape, and hind-neck edged behind with 

 iilacik; front margin of wing and -speculum ,-carlet; pri- 

 maries black, bluish at tips, all excepting the first green 

 towards the base of the outer webs, between which and 

 the black it-, a. bluish tinge' ; tail with a yellowish band 

 on its terminal half, the outer tail-feather often with its 

 outer web narrowly edged with blue; beak pale horn- 

 grey, cere blackish, baee 1 of both- mandibles with an 

 orange-yellowish spot; feet blackish-grey powdered with 

 whitish, the claws black; iris brown internally, red or 

 orange towards the outside. Female apparently with 

 less yellow and no red on the crown, and probably with 

 the irides paler (as is certainly the case in pome, if not 

 all. Amazons) ; the beak slightly broader at base, longer, 

 and with more slender terminal hook (thus forming an 

 exception to the general rule). Hab., Guiana and 

 apparently Eastern Brazil. 



Burmeister describes the beak of this bird as clear 

 bluish-grey, almost white at the tip. He says that this 

 is the largest species of its genus in Brazil and ap- 

 parently in the whole of America. It is very common 

 on the Amazon and throughout Guiana. 



Dr. Emil A. Goeldi, in an article on the birds of 



