BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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Subfamily, PSITTACIN^. 



Genus: CHRYSOTIS. Swainson. 



CHRYSOTIS: ''SWAINSON, ZOOL. JOURN, 1S37." 



CHRYSOTIS SALL/EI. Sclater. 



" Psittacus lencocephahts var.l Gm., Syst. Nat., I. p. 338." 

 Chrysotis sallcei. Scl., P. Z. S., 1857, p. 224; Cat. Am. Bcls., 

 p. 353 (i860). 



Psittacus {Chrysotis) sallcei. Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



XI. p. 96 (1866). 

 Chrysotis sallci. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 154 (18S1). 



Sp. Char., Male. — General plumage, green; forehead, white, 

 extending in front of the eye ; top of head, blue, narrowly tipped 

 with black ; a patch of black on the cheeks ; abdomen and basal 

 half of tail-feathers, crimson, wanting upon the outer web of the 

 outer tail-feather; thighs, pale blue in very adult birds, in most 

 specimens green, the blue being scarcely perceptible ; primaries 

 and secondaries, dark blue on the outer webs, inner webs dark 

 brown ; a small patch of red on the throat, which does not appear 

 to be constant. 



The sexes are apparently similar. 



Length 10.50; wing 8; tail 4.50; tarsus .60. 



This Parrot is common among the mountains of the interior, 

 and at some localities near the coast ; several specimens were seen 



