418 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 
„General color of the plumage grass-green; the feathers edged 
with black; the fore part of the head as far as upon a line with 
the anterior angle of the eye, lores, sides of the head and the 
throat are of a medium shade of ultramarine-blue; the feathers of 
the top of the head are varied with bright green and azure blue 
and narrowly bordered with black; the wing speculum is of a 
bright scarlet red; the first outer tail feather has the outer web 
dark blue for two-thirds its length, the terminal third is greenish 
yellow; the inner web is scarlet at the base for nearly half its 
length, which color is separated from the yellowisch end by a space 
of dull green; the second, third and fourth feathers differ from 
the first only in having the basal parts of their outer webs green; 
the central tail feathers are dark green, ending with dark yello- 
wish green; the upper mandible is whitish-horn color, with the 
sides yellowish, the under is grayish-horn color, yellowish at the 
base; feet blackish. 
Length 20 inches; wing 9°/,; tail 6°/,: tarsus 1. 
Hab.: Dominica, West-Indies. 
216. Eucinetus gen. noV. 
Ant. Reichenow, Journ. Orn. 29. Jahrg. Heft 4. p. 353. 
Kleinere Papageien mit gestreckterem Schnabel, welcher an der 
Basis so hoch ist als seine Länge vom Grunde bis zur Spitze, 
namentlich mit lang gestrecktem Unterkiefer, dessen Höhe an der 
Basis bedeutend kürzer ist als die Entfernung der Spitze von dem 
Schnabelwinkel. Zahn undeutlich. Dille mit Mittelkiel. Firste 
mit Längsrinne. Schwanzfedern mehr oder weniger zugespitzt. 
Zweite und dritte Schwinge am längsten, erste. kaum so lang als 
die vierte. Neun Arten in der Brasilianischen Subregion. 
Typus: Psittacus melanotis Lafr. 
r Fam. CUCULIDAE. 
217. Centropus natalensks. 
G. E. Shelley, Ibis. Vol. 6. No. 22. 1882. p. 246. 
Ad. Upper half of the head and neck, including the cheeks, 
brownish black with a green gloss, and a partial white eyebrow 
commeneing at the nostril; back and wings rufous brown, with 
the mantle, inner secondaries, and ends of the quills of a dark and 
more olive-brown shade, with narrow pale shaft-stripes to the 
fea hers of the hind neck and mantle, some of which stripes fade 
into buff; rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal portion of the tail 
narrowly barred with buff; tail-feathers narrowly tipped with white; 
underparts buff, with broad glossy buff shaits to the feathers of 
the throat and chest; on the lower throat the feathers are parti- 
ally barred from the edges with brown, deepening into black 
towards the sides of the neck, where the feathers have their outer 
margins black, causing these parts to be distinctly striped with 
black and buff; the sides of the body and the under tail-coverts 
are narrowly barred with dusky black; bill black, with a pale 
portion towards the base of the lower mandible; legs black; 
