226 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



orange-yellow, tinged or suffused with brownish orange and light 

 olive-greenish; smaller under wing-coverts orange-tawny, those near 

 edge of wing pale greenish, except on carpo-metacarpal edge, where 

 pure orange, all (except the pure orange ones) very narrowly and 

 indistinctly tipped with blackish; under primary coverts light yellow 

 tinged with orange distally, the shafts and a terminal edging (broader 

 and more extensive on outer web) dusky; under surface (inner webs) 

 of remiges with an extensive proximal area of clear lemon or empire 

 yellow, the remaining portion dull black, with a much smaller area 

 of dull dark green interposed between the black and the yellow; bill 

 dull light pinkish buffy, passing into pale horn color on maxillary 

 unguis (in life, "light bluish gray at base, becoming ivory white at 

 tip")" iris orange;" bare orbital space grayish anteriorly, bright 

 blue posteriorly (in life) ; ° legs and feet dull pale grayish olive (light 

 bluish gray in life). 



Immature ? b — Head and neck as in the plumage described above 

 but with more of blue on sides of head; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform green, instead of orange- 

 brown, the upper back, however, more or less washed with olive- 

 brown, the feathers without black terminal margins, except, some- 

 times, the scapulars and interscapulars; basal portion of primaries 

 (on both webs) green, instead of orange-yellow; under parts more or 

 less washed with green, especially posterior to chest, the under 

 tail-coverts, however, essentially as in the orange-brown plumage. 



Adult male.— -Length (skins), 395-418 (406); "wing, 258-270 (265); 

 tail, 154.5-166 (160.7); culmen, 34-36.5 (35.3); tarsus, 26-27.5 

 (26.7); outer anterior toe, 30.5-36 (33.6). c 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 427-460 (443); wing, 257-282 (268); 

 tail, 156-181 (168.2) ; culmen, 34.5-37 (35.7) ; tarsus, 24.5-27 (25.7) ; 

 outer anterior toe, 33.5-38 (35.7). d 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (Wallilibo; Barrovallie; 

 Peters Hope). 



Psittacus gwildingii Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., pt. iv, no. xlv, Jan. 16, 1837, 

 80 (St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles; coll. Zool. Soc. Lond.). — Bourjot, Perr., 

 1837-'38, pi. 64— Fraser, Zool. Typ., 1849, pi. 57. 



[Chrysotis] guildingi Bonaparte, Eev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151 (Consp. Psitt, 

 p. 8); Naumannia, 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 86).— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 

 164, no. 8319.— Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 113.— Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20.— Forbes and Eobinson, 

 Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 13 (type in Liverpool Mus.). 



o- A. H. Clark. 



6 Mr. Austin H. Clark (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., Vol. 32, .1905, 268, 269) considers this 

 an immature plumage; but I strongly suspect that in reality it represents a dichro- 

 matic phase, my reasons for this being that none of five specimens examined shows the 

 slightest evidence of immaturity in texture of the plumage or any other character. 



" Six specimens. 



6 Three specimens. 



