594 PSITTACIDiE. 



In Western Mexico, Grayson says, it is found in the warmer regions, and is found in 

 the same localities as C.finscU, though each species keeps in distinct flocks. It is a 

 bird easily domesticated when young, and readily learns to pronounce words ; it is 

 therefore a great favourite with the natives. 



12. Chrysotis xantholora. 



Chrysotis xantholora, G. R. Gray, List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1859) ' ; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 354' ; 

 1871, p. 97'; 1874, p. 327*; 1885, pp. 186=, 192°; Lawr. Ibis, ]871,p. 251 '; Scl. P.Z.S. 

 1875, p. 157, t. 26'; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 455 '; Eidgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. 

 p. 577"; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 373"; 1890, p. 88"; Salvad. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 XX. p. 313". 



Viridia, plumis corporis omnibus nigro distincte marginatis, tectricibus supraoaudalibus luteo-viridibus, pileo 

 toto summo albo, postice ceeruleo limbato, loris luteis, oculorum ambitu reliquo coccineo, regione auriculari 

 nigro ; alis nigris, remigibus in pogonio extemo ad basin viridibus ad apicem cyaneis, secundariis cyaneis, 

 tectricibus majoribus et bumeris ooccineis ; cauda viridi, ad apicem lutescente, rectricibus externis ad 

 apicem coccineis; rostro flavo ; pedibus carneis. Long, tofca circa 10-0, alse 6-9, caud8e3*5, rostri culminis 

 1'25, taisi 0'6. (Descr. exempl. ex Cozumel I., Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



2 pileo summo cserulea, parte antica solum alba, tectrice majors terfcia tantum coccinea, reliquis viridibus, 

 bumeris viridibus et colore coccineo circum oculos vix obvio a mare differt. 



Bab. Mexico, N. Yucatan [Cahot^), Merida, Izamal, Cozumel I. {G. F. Gaumer^^ ^^) ; 

 British Hondukas {Dyson ^), Orange Walk ( G. F. Gaumer). 



Though this species has a general resemblance to C. albifrons, it has many points of 

 difference. The lores are yellow instead of scarlet, the ear-coverts black, the bastard- 

 wing green, the shoulders scarlet, and the black margins to the feathers of the body 

 more distinct. 



Though Kuhl seems to have seen a specimen of this bird as early as 1820, and 

 Dr. S. Cabot obtained one during his visit to Yucatan with Stephens in 1841-2 (which 

 Salvin saw in his collection in Boston in 1874), it was not until 1859 that G. K. Gray 

 named it from a specimen obtained by Dyson in Honduras. When the ornithology of 

 Yucatan became better known, chiefly through the exertions of Dr. Gaumer, 

 C xantholora was found to be not uncommon in the northern part of that country, 

 where it occurs with C. albifrons, but in much smaller numbers ^. On the island of 

 Cozumel it is very abundant, judging from the series of skins Dr. Gaumer sent us 

 from there after his visit in 1887-8. The same collector afterwards secured a specimen 

 at Orange Walk in British Honduras. In Guatemala and the rest of Central America 

 C. xantholora seems quite unknown. 



PIONUS. 



Pionus, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. p. 497 (1832) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 321. 

 Pionias, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 366. 



The short, nearly even tail, and the invariably red under tail-coverts in all the 



