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part of outer web red or mixed red and yellow, the distal half of all 

 green passing through blue into black on terminal portion; proximal 

 portion of primaries green, the distal half, or more, blue and black; 

 four middle pairs of rectrices deep parrot green broadly tipped with 

 light yellowish green; other rectrices with a basal area of clear ver- 

 milion red passing into light salmon-orange on edge of inner web, the^ 

 middle area (broadly) deep parrot green, the terminal area (still 

 more broadly) light yellowish green, the outer web of outermost 

 rectrix deep blue for basal half or two-third3, pale greenish blue or 

 bluish green distally; under parts clear light yellowish green, glossed 

 with light bluish green (neuvieder to turquoise green) in certain 

 lights, each feather (except on under tail-coverts and, sometimes, on 

 lower abdomen and posterior part of flanks) margined terminally 

 with black; thighs chrome yellow; smaller under wing-coverts clear 

 light yellowish green, narrowly tipped with black; under primary 

 coverts and under surface of remiges dull light bluish green, the 

 narrowed distal portion of longer primaries and a broad stripe along 

 shaft dusky; bill dull buff; legs and feet dusky brownish (in dried 

 skins) . 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 325; wing, 210.5; tail, 123; tarsus, 

 22.5; outer anterior toe, 29. 5. a 



Venezuela, including Margarita Island; Aruba Island, Dutch West 

 Indies; Trinidad. 



[Psittacus] barbadensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 339 ("Barbados"; baaed 

 on Psittacus barbadensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 236; Perroguet des Barbades Albin, 

 pi. 11).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 120. 



[Psittacus] ochropterus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 341 ("America australi"; 

 based on Psittacus amazonicus gutture luteo Brisson, Orn., iv, 287; Crick a 

 tite et gorge jaune Buffon, Ois., vi, 222; Yellow-winged Parrot Latham, Synop- 

 sis Birds, i, 289; etc.). — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 123. 



Ps[ittacus] ochropterus Bechstein, Lathams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793, 243. 



Psittacus ochropterus Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 31 and note (app.), p. 8. — 

 Bechstein, Kurze Ueb., 1811, 97. 



Psittacus ochruptenus Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1855, pi. 70. 



Psittacus ocropterus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 327 (cites 

 "pi. 48 Ois. Frisch"); Tabl. Enc. Meth., iii, 1823, 1374. 



[Chrysotis] ochropterus Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 301. 



C[hrysotis] ochropterus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 422. 



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

 1856 (Oonsp. Psitt, no. 87).— Sotjance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 153 — 

 Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidee, 1859, 79.— Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 

 1868, 577.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 266, footnote.— Reichenow, Vogel- 

 bild., 1878, pi. 1, fig. 5.— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 288; 

 Ibis, 1906, 645.— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 301, 328, 329, pi. 9, fig. 1 (Aruba I., 

 Dutch West Indies; crit.; habits). 



One specimen, from Aruba. The type of Chrysotis lactifrons Lawrence, probably 

 also from Aruba, the sex being undetermined, measures as follows: Tail, 109.5; oil- 

 men, 26; tarsus, 20.5; outer anterior toe, 26. This has the primaries imperfect, while 

 the other specimen has the terminal portion of the maxilla broken off. 



