174 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



C[onurus] aztec Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 270. 



Conurus astern Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliv, 1857, 538. 



[Conurus nanus.] Subspecies: frontalis Reichenow, Jour, fur Orn., July, 1881, 



281 (Mexico; ex Conurus frontalis Natterer, manuscript); Comp. Psitt., 1882, 



169; Vogelbild., 1883, pi. 33, fig. 5. 



EUPSITTULA NANA (Vigors). 



JAMAICAN PAROQUET. 



Adult (.sexes alike). — Above bright parrot green, the sides of bead 

 and neck similar but rather lighter and brighter (especially when 

 compared with color of pileum) ; distal secondaries and proximal pri- 

 maries deep dull blue (between indigo and cyanine), the secondaries 

 narrowly edged, especially toward base, with paler, more greenish 

 blue, the primaries becoming green on proximal portion of outer 

 webs; larger primaries tinged with blue terminally; rectrices, prima- 

 ries, etc., with black shafts; throat and foreneck smoky brown (vary- 

 ing from light sepia to olive), passing through olive or greenish olive 

 on chest into bright green on sides, flanks, and under. tail-coverts; 

 smaller under wing-coverts bright light green; under primary coverts 

 and under surface of primaries plain slate-gray; under surface of tail 

 yellowish olive changing to olive-yellowish; bill pale buffy brown- 

 ish or whitish; iris yellow or orange; naked orbital space pale brown- 

 ish (whitish in life ?); legs and feet deep brownish or dusky horn 

 color (in dried skins) or blackish. 



Young. — Essentially like adults but brown of under parts replaced 

 by dull green slightly suffused with brown or olive, the abdomen dull 

 light yellowish green with indistinct shaft-streaks of darker. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 240-251 (247); wing, 135-142.5 

 (139.6); tail, 112.5-129.5 (123.8); culmen, 2 1-22.5 (21.6); tarsus, 13.5- 

 14.5 (13.9); outer anterior toe, 17.5-19 (18.2).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 230-255 (240); wing, 135-143.5 

 (140.7) ; tail, 116-131 (126.8); culmen, 21-21.5 (21.2); tarsus, 14.5-15 

 (14.8); outer anterior toe, 18-19 (18.5).° 



Island of Jamaica (Spanishtown; Falmouth; Moneague; near Troy; 

 Bogwalk Bridge). 



Psittacara nana Vigors, Zool. Journ., v, no. xviii, June, 1830, 273 (Jamaica; 

 colL Zool. Gardens London). — Lear, Parrots, no. 5, 1831, pi. 12. — Bourjot, 

 Perr., 1837-'38, pi. 24.— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38. 



[Psittacara] nana Vigors, in Lear, Illustr. Psittacidse, 1832 (in list of plates). 



P[sittacara] nana Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 640, 741. 



C[onurus] nanus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 414. — Newton (A. and E.), Handb. 

 Jamaica, 1881, 110. 



[Conurus] nanus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 150 (Consp. Psitt., 7); 

 Naumannia, 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 70). — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 148, 

 no. 8117. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 112. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 

 15. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., i, 1897, 11. 



° Five specimens. 



