584 PSITTACID^. 



Twelve species are found in our region, of which no less than eight occur in Mexico, 

 no other of the divisions of the country possessing more than four. 



The species of Chrysotis found within our limits may readily be divided into two 

 groups by the presence or absence of a scarlet speculum on the wing. Ten species 

 have this speculum, but it is wanting in the two small species, C. albifrons and 

 C. albilora. 



We continue to use the name Chrysotis for these Parrots, and in doing so we have 

 the high authority of Count Salvadori. Mr. Eidgway, in employing Amazona of 

 Lesson in a generic sense, gives it a value not originally intended by its author, and 

 not used by him as a full genus title until ten years after Chrysotis had been 

 introduced. 



As is the case in Pionus, Chrysotis has no tufted oil-gland, which is present in 

 Pionopsittacus, the only other genus of Pioninse found in our region. Its members 

 may be distinguished from those of Pionus by their longer, wider tails and by the 

 under tail-coverts being always green. 



a. Species majores, speculo alari coccineo ornati. 



1. Chrysotis guatemalae. 



Psittacus, sp. n. ex Guatemalaj Hartl. Verz. Brem. Samml. p. 87 ^ 



Chrysotis, sp. ?, Moore, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 59^ Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 138'. 



Chrysotis guatemalce, Hartl. Mus. Brem.; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 44"; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837 '; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 253 = -, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 562, t. 4'; Salv. Ibis, 1871, p. 98 

 (partim) " ; Lawr. Ibis, 1871, p. 250 ' ; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 279 ". 



Chrysotis farinosa, Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238". 



Viridis, pileo toto cseruleo, plumis singulis partis posticse et cervicis nigro tenninatis, genis et corpore subtus 

 viridibus vix flavescente tinctis ; speculo alari coccineo, remige primo nigro, reliquis in pogonio externo 

 ad basin saturate viridibus, secundariis cyaneo terminatis : alis subtus saturate viridibus, remigibus extus 

 nigris ; cauda viridi, fascia lata terminali pallide viridi-ilava ; rostro corneo ; pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 

 circa 15-0, alee 9-5, caudse 5-5, rostri culminis 1-8, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex E. de la Pasion, Guate- 

 mala. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis. 



Hah. Mexico ^ ^, Orizaba {Salle % Potrero near Cordova, Chimalapa {Sumichrast ") ; 

 Guatemala {Mus. Bremen i), R. de la Pasion, Choctum {0. S. & F. I) G )'• 

 HoNBVRks, Omoa, {Leyland^^% San Yedio {G. M. Whitely^). 



A supposed young bird in Mr. Sclater's collection obtained by Leyland at Omoa 2 but 

 which Count Salvadori considers adult, was the first indication we had of the existence 

 of this species 2. On a second example being seen by Mr. Sclater in the Bremen 

 Museum with Dr. Hartlaub's name C. guatemalce attached to it \ the bird was described 

 under that title in 1860^. 



The species belongs to a section of large green Parrots of which C. farinosa is the 

 oldest known form ; from this it differs in having the metacarpal edge of the wino- 

 green instead of red. The next species (C. virenticeps) is its nearest ally, and the two 



