on I he Parrots. 457 



Graf von Berlepsch has expressed the opinion that this 

 bird may have been introduced into St. Thomas. 



■\r Conukus xanthogenius I5|). Cotisp. Av. i. ]). 1 (1850) 

 (Brazil!); id. Rev. et Mag de Zool. 1854, p. 150, n. 25; 

 id. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 63; Schleg. Dierent. 

 p. 81 (1864) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci,?. 18 (1864) ; id. Ned. 

 Tijdsehr. Dierk. iii. p. L87 (1866) ; Sclat. et Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotrop. p. 11.2, n. 23 (1878) ; Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 331 (Bonaire I.); Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. p. 16, n. 29 

 (1900). 



Conurus pertinax part., Finsch, Die Papag. i. p. 506 ( 1867) ; 

 Salvad. Cat. 15. w. p. 197 (pt.) (1891) ; Dub. Syn. Av. p. 1.2, 

 n. 155 (1899). 



"Similar to C. pertinax, except that in adult specimens 

 the entire top of the head is of o beautiful golden-yellow 

 colour, somewhat more orange on the forehead ; while in 



C. pertinax the forehead only is orange-yellow Total 



length about 10 inches, wing 55 to 58, tail 5 to 55, ciilmen 

 0-9 to 1 CO." {Hartert.) 



Hub. Island of Bonaire, W.I. 



We owe to Dr. liartert the; discrimination between this 

 species and the allied ('. pertinax, and also the discovery of 

 its true habitat. 



Conuropsis Salvad. (Cat. 15. xx. p. 203, 1891). 



The American ornithologists ('Auk/ 1894, p. 49) refuse to 

 accept my genus Conuropsis with C. carolinensis as type, as 

 they consider the latter to be the type of the genus Conurus; 

 but for this purpose they attribute the genus Conurus to 

 Lesson (1831) instead of Kuhl (18:20). 



+ Conuropsis carolinensis (Linn.); Forbes & Robins. 



Bull. Liverp. .Mus. i. p. 11 (1897) ; Meyer, Vogel-Skel., Lief. 



xxiii. taf. ccxxvi (1898) ; Sliarpe, 1 laud-list, ii. p. 10 (1900). 



Conurus carolinensis Hasbrouck, Auk, viii. pp. 309-379 



(1891)*; Butler, Auk, ix. pp. 49-50 (1892) f; Mernani, 



* "The Caroline Paroquel {Conurus carolinensis)." 



\ " \< itcs mi tin' Rangi and Habits of the Carolina Parrakeel ." 



