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sen, the under surface of primaries, for proximal portion greenish blue 

 erditer or dull cerulean), the distal portion, as well as a broad stripe 

 xt to shaft, dull blackish slate or slate-black; bill light yellowish 

 rn color, more or less suffused with dusky horn color, the maxillary 

 Lguis wholly of the latter color; feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 dns), 386-426 (406); wing, 250-263 (256.5); tail, 151-159 (155); 

 lmen, 31-34.5 (32.7); tarsus, 24.5-25 (24.7); outer anterior toe, 

 -34.5 (34.2).° . 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and probably not always 

 stinguishable, but usually slightly duller in coloration, sometimes 

 thout trace of red on foreneck; length (skins), 375-405 (393); 

 trig, 244-258 (251.8); tail, 147-156 (149.8); culmen, 30.5-34 (32.1); 

 rsus, 23-25 (23.8); outer anterior toe, 30.5-36 (32.6). 6 

 Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles. 



Psittacus arausiacus Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1766, 79 (Dominica; based onBlue- 

 faced Parrot Edwards, Birds, pi. 230; type in coll. "Mr. Lemman, of Bishops- 

 gate street, London"). 



[Chrysotis] arausiaca Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8339. 



[Psittacus autumnalis] /3 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 345 (based on Crick 

 a tite bleue Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 230; Blue-faced Green Parrot Edwards, 

 Gleanings, pi. 230).— Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 124. 



Psittacus houqueti Bechstein, Kurze Uebers., 1811, 99 (based on Le Perroquet 

 Bouquet Levaillant, ii, 104, pi. 135).— Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 76.— 

 Desmaeest, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1826, 101. — Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 

 pi. 54. 



Ps[ittacus] houqueti Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 593, 717. 



Cffirysotis] houqueti Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 422. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1881, 627 (Dominica). 



Chrysotis houqueti Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 151; Naumannia, 

 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 96).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidae, 1859, 

 81.— Pinsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 555.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 266, 

 footnote.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627; 1889, 326, 327; Ibis, 

 1881, 412, 414; 1889, 565.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 462 (synonymy; descr.); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 185.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 277; 

 Ibis, 1906, 643; 1907, 365, in text (not extinct, but still numerous). 



[Chrysotis] houqueti Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20. — 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 13. 



Androglossa houqueti Reichenow, Journ. fttr Orn., 1881, 370 (monogr.); Consp. 

 Psitt., 1882, 210; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 122. 



Amazona houqueti Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 101, 133.— Verrill 

 (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Ac. Arts and Sci., viii, 1892, 328 (habits; crit.).— 

 Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, xvi, 1905, 15.— Clark (A. H.), Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 344. 



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



Psittacus cxrulifrons Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, 1811, 515 ("Guiana"). — Cuvier, 

 Regne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 464, footnote.— Voigt, Cuv. Uebers., 1831, 741. 



(?) Psittacus autumnalis, var. Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 326. 



P[sittacus] cyaneocapillusViBiLLOT, Tabl. Enc. Mdth., iii, 1823, 1373, pi. 229, fig. 1 

 ("Guiana").— Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 186, footnote. 



« Two specimens. b Five specimens. 



