228 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



flanks, and thighs bright yellowish green, passing into still m< 

 yellowish green on under tail-coverts — all the feathers of the unc 

 parts (except under tail-coverts and thighs) margined termina 

 with black, forming rather broad bars; under wing-coverts brig 

 yellowish green (often suffused with light brownish red), narrow 

 tipped with black; under primary coverts and under surface 

 remiges bright light bluish green (verdigris to beryl green), 1 

 primaries, however, with distal portion (extensively) and a bro 

 space next to shaft blackish slate or dusky; bill dark horn col 

 more yellowish on sides of maxilla (beneath nostrils) ; iris reddisl 

 legs and feet brown;" length (skins), 415-432 (426); wing, 272-2 

 (277.7); tail, 163.5-176 (170.5); culmen, 32.5-36 (34.2); tars 

 25.5-28 (27); outer anterior toe, 35-36 (35.7). 5 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and perhaps not alwa 

 distinguishable, but apparently averaging decidedly duller in coloi 

 tion; length (skins), 415-445 (428.3); wing, 269-283 (274); tail, 17 

 172 (170.7); culmen, 32-34.5 (33.2); tarsus, 25-27 (26.2); ou 

 anterior toe, 35.5-36 (35.8). 6 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



Psittacus versicolor MtJixeh, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 78 ("Havana"; based 

 Perroquet, de la Havane Daubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 360). — Bechstein, Laths 

 Uebers. Vog., i, 1793, 209, 701.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 23 and n 

 (app.), p. 6.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 365.— Kit 

 Consp. Psitt., 1820, 22.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1864, 240 (c 

 nomencl.). 



Ps[ittacus] versicolor Bechstein, Kurze Uebers., 1811, 78. 



[Chrysotis] versicolor Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8344. — Cory, List Bi 

 West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20 (Santa Lucia). — Forbes and Rob 

 son, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 13. 



C[hrysotis] versicolor Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627 (Santa Lucia). 



Chrysotis versicolor Sclater, Ibis, 1881, 414; 1889, 565; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lor 

 1889, 327, 395.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 463 (synonymy; descr.); Birds ^ 

 Ind., 1889, 186.— Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55. — Salvadori, Cat. Bi 

 Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 276; Ibis, 1906, 643. 



Androglossa versicolor Reichenow, Journ, flir Orn., 1881, 369 (monogr.); Con 

 Psitt., 1882, 209; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 121. 



Amazona versicolor Cory, Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 11, 101, 133. — Cla 

 (A. H.), Auk xxii, 1905, 344; West Ind. Bull., xi, no. 3, 1911, 183.— Rot 

 child, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15. 



[Amazona] versicolor Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 20. 



Psittacus cyano rynchus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 22 (based on Perroq 

 de la Eavane Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 360). 



C[hrysotis] cyanorhynchus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 20. 



Chrysotis cyanorhyncha Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 84. 



Amazona cyanorhyncha Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 

 no. 38 (Revue), 1874, 26. 



a H. Selwyn Branch, on labels of specimens. 

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•6 Three specimens 



