Description of a New Parrot. 125 



X. — Description of a New Species of Parrot of the Genus 

 Ghrysotis. 



By GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 

 Read March 26, 1878. 



Chrysotis lactifrons. 



General plumage grass-green, darker on the back and lighter below ; 

 tbe flanks yellowish, the sides of the neck, jugulum, breast, and abdomen 

 tinged with light verditer-blue ; the feathers of the occiput, neck, back, 

 breast, and upper part of abdomen margined with black, broader on the 

 back and sides of the neck ; front and lores milk-white ; sinciput, ophthal- 

 mic region, cheeks, and upper part of throat clear gamboge yellow ; the 

 concealed bases of the yellow feathers are orange-red : upper tail coverts 

 light-green ; two central tail feathers very dark green, the next of the 

 same color, except at the end, where it is light yellowish-green for the 

 space of about an inch ; the first lateral feather has the outer web blue for 

 three-quarters its length, the inner web scarlet for the same extent, and 

 terminating in yellowish-green, with a tinge of light-blue on the margin 

 of the outer web ; the next feather is scarlet for three-quarters its length, 

 with the outer half of the outer web dark-green for the same extent, and 

 a roundish spot of the same color on the inner web, just insid e the termi - 

 nation of the red color, the end yellowish-green ; the next two feathers are 

 red on their inner webs for half their length, then dark-green, the outer 

 webs also dark-green, both webs ending in yellowish -green : bend of wing 

 gamboge-yellow ; outer primary, black above and black underneath, ex- 

 cept on the inner web, for three-quarters its length, where it is broadly 

 margined with dull greenish-blue ; the other large quills have their outer 

 webs green above, with the inner webs, and the ends of some of the outer 

 webs, black ; underneath, they are colored much like the first primary ; a 

 speculum of scarlet occupies the central portion of the outer webs of the 

 first four secondaries ; the secondaries are dark-green above on their outer 

 webs, terminating in deep-blue, with their inner webs black ; underneath, 

 both webs are dull greenish-blue ; tertials dark-green on the upper 

 surface, and light verditer-blue on the lower: under tail coverts, pale 



