254 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. UE SCRIP TIOiV OF A NE^V SPECIES OF PARROT OF THE OEIVITS CHRYSOTIS, FROM THE ISI>A1>I> OF DOIUIIVICA. By OEOROE N. I.A\f^REWCE. Chrysotis nichollsi. Male ! — The general color of the plumage is grass-green, darker above and on the breast and abdomen tinged with yellow; the feathers of the hind neck and back are bordered rather narrowly with black, those of the wing coverts are without the black borders; the feathers of the lower i)art of the throat, of the upper part of the breast, and of the sides of the neck change to verditer-green on a side view and are edged with black ; the bases of some of the feathers of the breast and abdomen are dull red, and they are just perceptibly edged with black; the sides are dark green ; the fore part of the head as far as upon a line with the an-terior angle of the eye, lores, sides of the head, and the throat are of a medium shade of ultramarine-blue, lighter in color on the throat; in some lights the blue Color has a grayish cast; the feathers of the top of the head are varied with bright green and azure blue and are narrowly bordered with black ; the primaries have their inner webs black, the first primary is entirely black, the second and third have their outer webs dark blue for three-quarters their length, terminating with black, the other primaries have their outer webs green for most of their length, passing into dark blue for a short space, and ending with black; the ex-treme ends are narrowly margined with whitish ash ; the wing speculum is of a bright scarlet red, occupying a space on the outer webs of the first three secondaries of about three inches; there is a small yellow mark where the red joins the terminal dark blue of these feathers, which have the outer webs green at their bases ; the other secondaries have their outer webs green, with a subterminal blue spot, and ending with black; the fourth secondary has an elongated yellow mark on the mid-dle of the outer web ; all the secondaries have their inner webs black ; the outer webs of the tertiaries are green, the inner are black with their ends green; the wing coverts are of the same color as the back, but the concealed portions of the inner webs of the greater coverts are black ; the outer edge of the wing is dull light yellow; the quills underneath have the basal two-thirds of their length dull verditer-blue, the terminal portion is black; the under wing coverts are green; the first outer tail feather has the outer web dark blue for two-thirds its length, the ter-minal third is greenish yellow ; the inner web is scarlet at the base for nearly half its length, which color is seiiarated from the yellowish end by a space of dull green ; the second, third, and fourth feathers differ jfrom the first only in having the basal parts of their outer webs green ; the central tail feathers are dark green, ending with dark yellowish green ; upper tail coverts dark green, with their ends yellowish ; the under tail coverts are yellowish green; the upper mandible is whitish-
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