14 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Psittacusflavinuchus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1843 (pub. Dec), 104("Shores 

 of South America and the Pacific" ; coll. Zool. Soc. Loud.); Zool. Voy. "Sul- 

 phur," 1844, 45, pi. 27; Ann. and Mag. N. H., xiii, 1844, 475. 



C[hrysotis]flavinzichm Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 421. 



(?) Chrysotis farinosa (not Psittacus farinosus Boddaert) Lawrence, Bull. TJ. S. 

 Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 36 (Santa Maria, Chimalapa, Oaxaca). . 



AMAZONA AUTDMNALIS AUTUMNALIS (Linnseus). 



YELLOW-CHEEKED PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead (broadly) and greater part of 

 res dull vermilion or bright nopal red; lower portion of lores, rictal 

 gion, and suborbital region chrome yellow (rarely red, like forehead 

 id lores); crown and occiput with feathers banded with light 

 sllowish green (on middle portion) and lavender or light lavender- 

 olet (sub terminally), and narrowly margined at tip with black, 

 Le feathers sometimes pale purplish red or pinkish basally (this 

 mcealed) ; hindneck clear parrot green, the feathers rather broadly 

 argined terminally with black, this sometimes preceded by a narrow 

 ib terminal bar of lavender or light lavender- violet; general color 

 ' upper parts clear parrot green, the scapulars and interscapulars 

 distinctly margined terminally with black; four outer secondaries 

 ith outer webs pure poppy red for greater part, the distal portion 

 ue-black or black tinged with dark violet-blue, sometimes with a 

 irrow edging of green or lighter blue; basal half (approximately) 

 ! primaries clear parrot green, the distal portion blue-black or very 

 irk violet-blue, their inner webs black or slate-black; distal third 

 aore or less) of tail clear light yellowish green, the middle pair of 

 :ctrices mostly (sometimes wholly) green; inner webs of rectrices 

 ith the darker green proximal portion passing into dusky toward 

 ner edge, those of the two outermost rectrices becoming light yellow 

 isally and, usually, with a more or less distinct subbasal spot of 

 d;° suborbital region (broadly), lower part of loral region, and 

 ctal region yellow (chrome yellow to light cadmium); auricular 

 gion, malar region (except upper anterior portion), and sides of 

 Lroat (sometimes whole throat) clear bright yellowish green, the 

 Lroat often intermixed or suffused with pale red; under parts lighter 

 •een, or more yellowish green, than upper parts, the feathers of 

 Lest and breast more or less distinctly margined terminally with black 

 xcept in worn plumage), the throat sometimes more or less inter- 

 ixed with red; smaller under wing-coverts light yellowish green, 

 ose along carpo-metacarpal edge more yellowish (sometimes green- 

 i yellow); under primary coverts dull green (malachite), pass- 

 g into pale greenish yellow terminally and on edges (partly) ; under 



• There is great variation among specimens which do not otherwise differ materially 

 the coloration of the lateral rectrices. Sometimes the red is so much reduced in 

 tent as to amount to a mere trace, while, more rarely, it is wholly absent. Occa- 

 nally the red invades the outer web also. 



