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however, as far as I know, found in the island of Dominica, but in 

 Puerto Rico, whence examples now in the Museum of the Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris were transmitted by Mauge. Le Vaillant has re- 

 presented this bird as the female of his " Perroquet a face rouge" 



Mr. Gosse's Psittacus leucocephalus from Jamaica, of which there 

 is one specimen in the British Museum, seems different again, and 

 ought probably to bear the name Chrysotis vinaceicollis ; the bird 

 described by M. de Lafresnaye as Pionus vinaceicollis (Rev. Zool. 

 1846, p. 321) being probably intended for the young of this; but 

 a larger series of examples is perhaps requisite to confirm this 

 species. 



It is very interesting to notice how the different islands of the 

 Antilles are thus tenanted, by distinct, though corresponding, species 

 of Parrots : — Cuba by Chrysotis leucocephala and i Vonu?'us guia- 

 nensis* (?), Jamaica by Chrysotis vinaceicollis and Conurus nanus, 

 Puerto Rico by Chrysotis vittata and Conurus maugcei-f, and San 

 Domingo by Chrysotis Sallcei and Conurus chloropterus%. 



While upon the subject of Parrots, I may add some notes taken 

 during a late inspection of specimens of these birds in several Mu- 

 seums. 



Prince Bonaparte, in one of his last papers, proposed to call the 

 little Mexican Conure, which so nearly resembles Myiopsitta tigrina 

 of Souance, Bolborhynchus catharina (Compt. Rend. March 1857). 

 But there is no doubt that the Mexican bird (whether really distinct 

 from the Venezuelan tigrina or not) should bear the name lineola of 

 Cassin. Mr. Cassin's type, which is in the Philadelphian Academy's 

 Museum, was obtained by Mr. Pease, near Puente Nacional, in the 

 State of Vera Cruz, and there is no ground for supposing error in 

 the locality. I have seen the same bird in the collection of Dr. 

 Cabot of Boston. It was obtained by him in Yucatan, in the island 

 of Cosumel in 1842. 



The Parrots belonging to the genus Tanygnathus of the East 

 Indian islands are in much confusion, which a more accurate know- 

 ledge of the localities whence specimens are brought would, I think, 

 soon clear up. The type of the genus, Tanygnathus macrorhynchus 

 (PI. Enl. 713), distinguished by its enormous blood-red beak and 

 green head, with the wings varied with black and yellow, is said to 

 be from New Guinea. This is very likely to be the case, but more 

 certain localities are the islands of Gilolo, where examples were pro- 

 cured by Forsten, and Ceram, where Reinwardt found it living, as I 

 learn from the marked specimens in the Leyden Museum. Next to 

 it comes T. marginatus (PI. Enl. 287, Jig. mala) from the Philip- 

 pines. This species has the hind part of the head blue, and the 

 wings varied with yellow and blue. A third bird of this genus is 

 Tanygnathus Mullen, Bp. Consp. p. 5, et Mull, et Schlegel, Verh. 



* Probably not the true quiancmis of Guiana, but so called bv Cabanis, Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1856, p. 106. 



t Psittacnra maugcei, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 59. 

 X Psittacara chloroptera, Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 59. 



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