BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 227 



Chrysotis guildingi Bollb, Journ. fur Ora., 1856, 170.— Gray, List Birds Brit. 



Mus., Psitt., 1859, 80.— Pinsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 559.— Sclatbe, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 324; 1877, 683; 1879, 300; 1889, 327.— Lawrence, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 193 (St. Vincent; habits; descr.); i, 1879, 487 (St. 



Vincent).— Lester, Ibis, 1880, 42.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 462 (synonymy; 



descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 185.— Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55.— 



Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds, 1889, 79.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xx, 1891, 273; Ibis, 1906, 142.— Lowe, Ibis, 1909, 308. 

 C[hrysotis] guildingi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627. 

 Amazona guildingii Schlbgel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 49; no. 



33 (Revue), 1874, 26.— Clark (A. H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 



267 (St. Vincent; descr. of plumages; habits); Auk, xxii, 1905, 344. 

 Amazona guildingi Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 101, 134.— Rothschild, 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15 (nearly extinct). 

 [Amazona] guildingi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 20. 

 Androglossa guildingi Reichenow, Jour, fiir Orn., 1881, 380 (monogr.); Consp. 



Psitt., 1882, 220; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr. 127. 



AMAZONA VERSICOLOR (Mtiller). 



SANTA LT/CfA PARROT. 



Adult male. — Forehead, lores, and suborbital region light viola- 

 ceous blue (between azure and campanula — tending more to one or 

 the other in different specimens), passing into more greenish (tur- 

 quoise) blue on crown and posterior portion of suborbital region, the 

 former with feathers tipped with black, the latter with narrow shaft- 

 streaks of the same; occiput, nape, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, 

 and smaller wing-coverts yellowish parrot green, the feathers mar- 

 gined terminally with black, forming more or less distinct crescentic 

 bars, widest on hindneck; greater wing-coverts and proximal sec- 

 ondaries yellowish parrot green without black terminal margins, the 

 upper tail-coverts similar but much more yellowish green, approach- 

 ing bright greenish yellow; outer webs of three outer or distal secon- 

 daries scarlet vermilion with distal third (approximately) passing 

 through violaceous blue into black terminally, the fourth secondary 

 with a smaller red area margined with green; primary coverts and 

 basal portion of fifth to eighth primaries deep violet-blue edged with 

 green; proximal (shorter) primaries deep violet-blue passing into 

 black terminally, the longer primaries (fifth to eighth, inclusive) with 

 the basal green and blue passing through violet-blue into black on 

 terminal half (more or less), the outermost primary wholly black; 

 tail with basal two-thirds (approximately) green and blue (the green 

 largely predominating on middle rectrix, wholly absent from outer 

 web of outermost one, except terminal portion), the terminal third 

 (more or less) light yellowish green; basal portion of inner webs of 

 three outer rectrices red passing into yellow on edges; foreneck and 

 chest yellowish oil green, more or less suffused with red, especially 

 on center of foreneck, where the red predominates, sometimes forming 

 a conspicuous patch; breast and abdomen light brownish red; sides, 



