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[Chrysotis] cyanocephalus Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301 (based on 1 

 Peroquet Bouquet Levaillant, pi. 135). 



Chrysotis nichollsi Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Sept. 4, 1880, 254 (islan 

 of Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 256 (habits).— Sclatei 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 627 (crit.); Ibis, 1881, 413 (crit.).— Reicheno 

 and Schalow, Journ. fur Orn., 1883, 417 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



AMAZONA MARTINICANA A. H. Clark. 



MARTINIQUE PARROT. 



Similar to A. arausiaca, but top of head slate color with a sligi 

 intermixture of red. 

 Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



Psittacus leucocephalus var. Viehaot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 33 

 (Martinique). 



Amazona martinicana Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, Oct., 1905, 343 (ex. Laba 

 Nouveau Voy. aux Isles de l'Amerique, ii, 1742, 214, 344).— Rothschhj 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15; Extinct Birds, 1907, 57, pi. 18.o 



Chrysotis martinicana Sai/vadori, Ibis, Oct., 1906, 643. 



AMAZONA AUROPALLIATA (Lesson). 



YELLOW-NAPED PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum light green (varying from clear ye! 

 lowish green to light oriental green), sometimes (in older individuals r i 

 with a spot or patch of chrome yellow on median portion of foreheac 

 sometimes extended to middle of crown, the green passing on occipu 

 and upper part of nape into deeper yellowish green; lower nape an 

 whole hindneck light cadmium yellow; general color of rest of uppe 

 parts clear bright yellowish parrot green, the scapulars and intei 

 scapulars with very indistinct broken black terminal margins, th 

 wing-coverts (especially greater ones) and proximal secondaries indis 

 tinctly edged with lighter yellowish green or greenish yellow, th 

 upper tail-coverts much lighter and brighter green (bright yellow 

 green, cosse green, or neva green); outer webs of four outermos 

 secondaries mostly pure poppy red (or between poppy and geraniur 

 red), passing into yellow on concealed basal portion, the distal poi 

 tion first green (narrowly) more or less intermixed or suffused wit] 

 yellow, then bluish black tinged with dark violet-blue; primarie 

 clear parrot green on proximal half, bluish black tinged with dari 

 violet-blue for distal half, their inner webs dull black or slate-black 

 basal two-thirds (approximately) of tail clear parrot green, the tei 

 minal third clear light yellow-green (bright cosse green changing t 

 nearly neva green) ; inner webs of five lateral rectrices (on each side 

 with basal third (more or less) red and yellow, the red predominating 



°The colored plate in "Extinct Birds" does not agree with, descriptions quoted 1 

 the text, the head and neck, all round, being slate colored, with a red patch on.cente 

 of the crown, and the two outermost rectrices with outer webs red for their entir 

 length. 



