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Chrysotis viridigenalis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 371 ("S. Am."; 

 coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.); Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., iii, 1855, 153, pi. 13.— Bona- 

 parte, Naumamiia, 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 93).— Soijance, Icon. Perr., 1857, 

 pi. 31, lower fig.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidae, 1859, 82.— Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1889, 241 (n. e. Mexico, from Misantla, Vera Cruz, n. to lat. 25° 15' in 

 Sierra Madre). 



[Chrysotis] viridigenalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 164, no. 8327, part. 



A[mazona] viridigenalis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 595. 



Amazona viridigenalis Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 628 (Alta 

 Mira, s. Tamaulipas). 



Chrysotis viridigena Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 297 (Monte 

 Morelos and Rio Comacho, Nuevo Leon; Sierra Madre above Victoria, Tam- 

 pico, and Tamesi and Tautina near Tampico, Tamaulipas; Colipa, Vera Cruz); 

 Ibis, 1906, 647.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1897, 590.— 

 Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Rio Martinez, Rio Cruz, and Santa Leonor, 

 s. Tamaulipas). 



[Chrysotis] viridigena Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, no. 1, 

 1897, 13. 



[Amazona] viridigena Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 21. 



Chrysotis coceineifrons Sotjance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 154 ("Colombia?. ") — 

 Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856 (Consp. Psitt., no. 98, part). — Ftnsch, Die 

 Papag., ii, 1868, 540, part.— Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1881, pi. 19, fig. 3. 



AMAZONA FINSCHI (Sclater). 



FINSCH'S PARROT. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Forehead and lores dull lake red; crown and 

 occiput deep lavender, the feathers green beneath surface and (unless 

 abraded) narrowly tipped with black, the nape similarly colored, but 

 black terminal bar more distinct, subterminal lavender area narrower, 

 and basal green area more extended; hindneck bright parrot green, 

 the feathers broadly tipped with Wack, forming conspicuous crescentic 

 bars; distal secondaries with basal two-thirds (approximately) of 

 outer webs red (between poppy red and carmine), the terminal por- 

 tion dark blue, edged proximally with green; distal third (approxi- 

 mately) of primaries black on inner web, dark blue on outer web; rest 

 of upper parts clear parrot green, the scapulars, interscapulars, lesser 

 and middle wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts margined ter- 

 minally with black, the greater wing-coverts edged with light yellowish 

 green; terminal half (approximately) of tail light yellowish green 

 (except middle pair of rectrics, which are wholly parrot green), the 

 inner webs becoming greenish yellow toward edge ; outer web of outer- 

 most rectrix edged with black or dusky; suborbital, auricular and 

 malar regions and lower portion of loral region clear light yellowish 

 green, sometimes with narrow bars of black on posterior portion of 

 auricular and malar regions; under parts clear light yellowish green, 

 the feathers rather broadly margined terminally with black (except 

 under tail-coverts), the bars thus formed less distinct on abdomen; 

 bill dull buffy in dried skins, "pale yellow, brightest on sides of upper 



