588 PSITTACID^. 



Hah. Mexico (Deppe^), Tres Marias Is. {Oraysun'^^^^, Forrer), Rio Tupila, R. de 

 Coahuyana {Xantus ^^), Villa Grande in Nuevo Leon {F. B. Armstrong), Sierra 

 Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Aldama {W. B. Richardson), Tierra Caliente of 

 Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^*), Rio Grande, Playa Vicente [Boucard^), San tana ^^^ 

 Rio Rancho Nuevo, Alvarado [Ferrari-Perez], Barrio, Petapa (Sumichrast ^^) ; 

 British Honduras, Belize (6>. -5'.) ; Honduras, Ruatan I. (6. F. Gaumer ^^), Yojoa 

 (G. a Taylor^). 



The amount of yellow on the head and neck of different specimens of this Parrot 

 varies greatly, probably due to the age of each individual bird. A specimen from the 

 Tres Marias Islands has the entire head and neck yellow, and yellow feathers mixed 

 with red ones on the bend of the wing. Some specimens from Aldama in Tamaulipas 

 have yellow feathers irregularly scattered over the breast and abdomen. 



The range of Chrysotis levaillanti in Mexico is wide and extends along both the 

 Atlantic and Pacific coasts — on the lowlands bordering the former well into the frontier 

 States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, and on the latter to the Tres Marias Islands, 

 where the late Col. Grayson found it in considerable numbers when he first visited the 

 islands in 1865. But it was much less common in 1867, the woodcutters who frequented 

 the islands having in the meantime captured and transported for sale at Mazatlan and 

 elsewhere on the mainland large numbers of birds, which realized prices varying from 

 one to five dollars each ^<'- 



When first visited, the birds of the Marias were exceedingly tame, and they could be 

 easily caught by passing a string with running-noose attached to a slender pole over 

 their heads as they were feeding or sitting on the trees. They, however, soon became 

 shy and even difficult of approach. 



The nests of this Parrot seen by Grayson were all in the hollows of large trees and 

 he was only able to reach one in a tree known as " Palo prieto." The two eggs lay 

 upon the bare rotten wood in a slight depression. They were pure white, a good deal 

 larger than those of a tame pigeon and of an elliptical form. 



Xantus records ^^ this species from the Rio Tupila and the Rio de Coahuyana on the 

 mainland, but possibly these birds may have been brought from the Marias Islands 



On the east coast Mr. Armstrong obtained specimens for us near Villa Grande in 

 Nuevo Leon, and Mr. Richardson a good series from various parts of Southern 

 Tamaulipas, the bird being apparently especially common near Aldama, a little to the 

 northward of Tampico; thence it is found southwards throughout the hotter parts 

 of the State of Vera Cruz. 



Count Salvadori continues to use Gray's name, Chrysotis levaillanti, for this species 

 though the specific.title was previously applied to an African Pceocephalus by Lesson' 

 and placed with his American species of Amazona. For this reason Mr. Rido-way 

 renamed our bird Amazona oratrix ^^. ^ 



