AMAZOXA. 325 



Mr. J. J. Qiielcli, writino- on the X.itive Birds o£ Geovgoto\Yn, 

 remuvks (Timehri (2) v. p. 107) : — '' The common Screecher Parrot 

 (C/irf/sntis oclirocepluda) may at times be seen, but at rare 

 intervals." 



209. Amazona dufresniana. 

 Dl'fresne's Amazox. 



Psitfacns ihifresnianns Shaw, Gen. ZooL viii. 2, p. 513, 1811 (Cayenne) ; 



Cab. in Sehomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 721^, 1818. 

 Chri/sofis eoeligena Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 68 (Camacusa, Bartica Grove). 

 Chri/sotis dufresniana Salvacl. Cat. B. Brit. JNfus. xx. p. 295, 1891 ; 



Lloyd, Timehri (2) ix. p. 271, 1895. 

 Amazona dafretiniana Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 90, no. 811, 



1912. 



Adult nude. General colour above and belo\v o-reen with dark 

 edges to thi ft-atliers on the hind-neck and an inclination to yellow 

 on the throat and under surface, these parts as well as the nnder 

 wing-coverts being tinged with blue ; top of head yellow tinged with 

 green ; an orange spot in front of the eye ; sides of face and sides 

 of neck lavender-blue ; Aving-speculum bright orange fading in- 

 wardly to yellow ; tips of flight-quills bluish black, the innermost 

 secondaries green, becoming yellowish green at the tips of the 

 outer feathers, with a tinge of red at the base and on the sub- 

 terminal portion of the feathers, as well as a bluish tinge on tlie 

 outer web of the outermost feather. " Bill dusky with the base 

 of the u))per mandible red ; feet grey." 



Total length 370 mm., culmen 3'J, wing 200, tail 105, tarsus 22. 



The dt!sci iption of the male is taken from a bird collected on the 

 Demerara Ixiver in April 1871. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wins ] 08 mm. 



The description of the female is taken from a specimen in the 

 British Museum collected at Bartica on the lOth of October, 1880, 

 by H. Whitely — Salvin-Godman collection. 



We notice iu the series at the British Museum, as well as in that 

 in the McConnell collection, that the amount of blue which pervades 

 the face and underparts varies in each individual. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Kesl. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J''flf/s. Undoscribed from British Guiana. 



L'amie In /Jrill.^h (Jaidini. Bartici, Bonasika River. D(Miie- 



