264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



and breast margined terminally with black, the crescentic bars thus 

 formed broadest on lower hindneck and sides of neck;° forehead 

 (rather narrowly) and upper portion of loral region poppy red; 

 remiges (except proximal secondaries) and primary coverts light 

 greenish blue (greenish cerulean or turquoise), the secondaries passing 

 into green on edges; inner webs of primaries black, of secondaries 

 slate-blackish toward edge, passing into greenish blue next to shaft, 

 at least distally; alula green basally passing into greenish blue termi- 

 nally; tail green (without any red), the rectrices more yellowish green 

 terminally, the outer web of outermost rectrix tinged with greenish 

 blue distally; under surface of remiges beryl green, the longer pri- 

 maries with distal portion and a broad stripe next to shaft blackish 

 slate; bill pale grayish buffy suffused with horn color; legs and feet 

 pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 260-300 (287) ; wing, 184-196 (189.9) ; 

 tail, 96.5-108.5 (102.9); culmen, 27-28.5 (27.9); tarsus, 21-22 (21.8); 

 outer anterior toe, 27.5-29 (28.4). 6 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 270-283 (276); wing, 173-184.5 

 (180.7); tail, 93-103.5 (99.2); culmen, 27-28 (27.3); tarsus, 19-21 

 (20); outer anterior toe, 25-29 (27.1). 6 



Island of Porto Kico, Greater Antilles (El Yunque; Mameyes). 



Psittacus vittatus Boddaekt, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 49 (based on Paroquet de 

 St. Domingue Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 792). — Ktjhl, Consp. Psitt, 1820, 

 21.— Sundevall, CEfv. K. Vet.-Ak. For., 1869, 599 (Porto Rico). 



P[sittacus] vittatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 421. 



Chrysotis vittata Bolle, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 170 ("Antillen"). — Sclatee, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 224.— Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 377, in text 

 (Porto Rico). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 83. — Taylob, 

 Ibis, 1864, 171 (Porto Rico).— Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1866, 190, footnote.— 

 Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 515. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 458 (synonoiny; 

 descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 181— Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55 — 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 309. 



[Chrysotis] vittata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 165, no. 8336. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 113.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 

 1886), 20. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 14 

 ("Guiana"). 



a Sometimes feathers on the abdomen are tipped with brownish red. 

 6 Five specimens. 



