122 Count T. Salvadori— Notes 
the colour above is decidedly as light as or lighter than that 
in the St. Thomas series. There is, in fact, an apparently 
endless series of gradations in the depth of colour above and 
in the disposition of the “solid” portion of the black on the 
under parts in birds from the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles. 
I do not find, as Mr. Ridgway says on the same page, that 
this “ solid”’ portion of the black chest in specimens from 
St. Thomas is as restricted as in EH. marchii; nor is it so in 
specimens from St. Kitts, Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. 
Vincent, Montserrat, Antigua, and Anguilla. In examples 
from all these islands the black may come well over the 
abdomen, with only narrow edgings to the feathers in the 
middle line. The flanks are dull olive-grey. It would appear, 
indeed, that the disposition of the black on the under parts 
is largely a question of age; and I should be inclined to 
unite the Bahaman and the Lesser Antillean birds under the 
name of FE. bicolor. 
V.—WNotes on the Parrots. (Part VII.) 
By T. Satvapor1, H.M.B.O.U.* 
Subfam. Psirractna and PaLmornitHINA. 
(Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. pp. 377, 387.) 
Subfam. Psrrracin”. 
Psirracus Linn. 
Psirracus ERiTHACcUS Linn.; Boc. Jorn. Se. Lisb. (2) 
no. xii. p. 10 (1895) (Fernando Po); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1902, 
p70; Salvad.. Mem. Ac. ‘Tor, (2) li. p. 119 Mere 
Rehnw. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 2 (1902). 
Psittacus erythacus Hartert, Journ. f. Orn. 1886, p. 598 
(Niger, Lokodscha, Congo, Accra) ; Jacks. & Sharpe, Ibis, 
1902, p. 612; Alex: Ibis, 1903, p. 397. 
Psittacus erythacus megarhynchus Hartert, Kat. Vig. 
Senck. Mus. p. 157 (note, Congo) (1891). 
* Continued from ‘The Ibis,’ 1906, p. 659. 
