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Remark. — For this bird Mr. Gould is indebted to the Messrs. 

 Verreaux of Paris, who obtained it in a collection from Santa Fe de 

 Bogota. In size it fully equals, if it does not exceed, O. dentatus 

 and O. speciosus, from which latter it differs in the total absence 

 of any black on the throat. 



2. Notes on an unnamed Parrot from the Island of St. 

 Domingo, now living in the Society's Gardens ; and 



ON SOME OTHER SPECIES OF THE SAME FAMILY. By 



Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



(Aves, PI. CXXVII.) 



M. Auguste Salle has called my attention to the fact, that the- 

 White-fronted Parrot of San Domingo, commonly regarded as the 

 immature state of Chrysotis leucocephala, is in truth quite a different 

 species from that bird. It may be distinguished at once by having 

 no red on the tbroat and a narrower white frontal band than the true 

 leucocephala, which is from Cuba. M. Salle, who has had ample 

 opportunities of observing this bird in its natural state, is confident 

 as to its distinctness, and I have no doubt he is quite right. Under 

 these circumstances, I propose to call the San Domingan bird, which 

 has not yet received a specific designation, Chrysotis Sallcei, — a just 

 tribute to one who has made such extensive discoveries in the Na- 

 tural History of the New World, and is the only modern naturalist 

 who has explored the still imperfectly-known zoology of the island 

 which it inhabits. 



The true Chrysotis leucocephala is figured in Edward's ' Glean- 

 ings,' vol. iv. pi. 166, as " The White-fronted Parrot," and by Buffon 

 in the ' Planches Enluminees ' as tbe " Perroquet a front blanc du 

 Senegal," and "Perroquet de la Martinique," nos. 335 and 549. 

 It is also well represented by Le Vaillant as the male of " Le Per- 

 roquet a face rouye" (pi. 107 et 107 bis). It is included in the 

 revised list of Cuban birds lately published in Cabanis' Journal ; and 

 specimens in the collection of the Academy of Philadelphia were 

 procured by Mr. Richard Taylor in that island. 



Examples of this bird likewise occur in the British Museum, and 

 there is a specimen now living in the Society's gardens. 



The Chrysotis Sallcei is figured by Buffon in his ' Planches En- 

 luminees,' no. 548, as the "Perroquet a ventre pourpre de la Mar- 

 tinique." Specimens collected by M. Salle in San Domingo are in 

 the British Museum and at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and 

 there are two fine examples now living in the Society's gardens. 



There is likewise living in the Society's gardens an example of 

 another nearly allied species of Parrot, which has also been some- 

 times confounded with the true Chrysotis leucocephala. This is 

 the Red-fronted Parrot {Chrysotis vittata) figured in the ' Planches 

 Enluminees ' under the title of " Perroquet de S. Dominique," and 

 often called by Gmelin's specific name " dominicensis." It is not, 



