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nape-feathers is not quite so pronounced as in more southern examples. On the whole, 

 it seems better to assign these intermediate specimens to C. salvini rather than to 

 C. autumnalis. 



Young birds of C. autumnalis show no yellow suborbital patch, and old birds often 

 have this patch of a nearly pure scarlet ; and scarlet feathers are often freely mixed 

 with the green ones surrounding the bare chin. The latter features are not observable 

 in the southern form. 



Mr. Eidgway, in writing to us on the birds of these forms in the United States 

 National Museum, describes the same intermediate characters between C. autumnalis 

 and C. salvini. Count Salvadori, when describing the latter bird, seems to have had 

 the true C. diademata more in view, as for a long time C. salvini was considered to 

 belong to that species. But C. diademata (apparently a rare bird) differs distinctly in 

 the colouring of the lores, which are of a " deep purple-red." 



C. autumnalis is a common species in the lowlands of the forest-region of Vera Paz, 

 where it may be seen in numerous flocks in the same districts as C. guatemaloe. 

 Domesticated birds of this Parrot are commonly seen about the houses of Vera Paz, as 

 its tameness and readiness in learning words render it a great favourite. 



10. Chrysotis salvini. 



Chrysotis viridigenalis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 298 (nee Cassin) ' ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 368 '; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 131 '; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 365 *. 

 Chrysotis autumnalis, Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 365 \ 

 Chrysotis diademata, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 214 ' ; Ibis, 1870, p. 113 ' ; 1871, pp. 97 ', 251 ' ; Lawr. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 250 " j Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 538 " ; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 407 ^\ 

 Amazona diademata, Zeledon, An. Mus. Nae. Costa Riea, 1887, p. 124 ". 

 Chrysotis salvini, Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 300, t. 7. f. 3 ". 

 Amazona salvini, Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 519 ". 



C. autumnali similis, sed genis plerumque omnino viridibus, fronte angustiore coccinea, plumis cervicis posticae 

 omnibuB lilacino subterminatis, recfcricibus lateralibus in pogonio interno ad basin plaga coccinea notatis. 

 (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Panama, Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. NiCAEAGtJA, Matagalpa, San Emilio (W. B. Bichardson), Grey town, R. Escondido 

 {Bichmond ^% Los Sabalos {Nutting 12) ; Costa Rica, San .Tose 3 {v. Frantzius ^ 

 Carmiol), Peje (Carmiol), Talamanca (Gabb, U. S. Nat. Mus.), Jimenez {Zeledon i3) ; 

 Panama, Calovevora, Bugaba {Arc6 ^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan 2}.— Colombia" ; Eio 

 Negeo Valley. 



As already stated under C. autumnalis, we restrict the title of G. salvini to the bird 

 found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, though specimens from the first-named 

 country nearly all have intermediate characters, and some of those from Costa Rica. 



We have many specimens of this bird from Nicaragua, sent us by Mr. Richardson 

 from Matagalpa and San Emilio at the southern end of the lake. Mr. Richmond says 

 it is common on the Escondido and at Greytown, and that the iris is orange. 



