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Clark Description of a New Euphonia. 



more yellowish, especially on the abdomen and under tail coverts. The 

 rump is also considerably brighter, inclining to wax yellow, and not dull 

 olive, as in the Dominica bird. 



Color. Adult male: Forehead gamboge yellow, margined posteriorly by 

 a transverse line or bar of black ; crown, occiput, and hind neck uniform 

 light turquoise blue, this color extending down behind the auriculars 

 to the upper breast; back, scapulars, wing coverts, and upper tail coverts 

 uniform olive green ; rump bright olive yellowish ; primaries, secondaries 

 and rectrices dusky, margined with olive green ; lores black ; suborbital, 

 auricular and malar regions dark olive green, becoming lighter toward 

 throat ; chin and throat lemon yellow, brightest on chin, and shading into 

 the green of the breast posteriorly ; underparts yellowish olive green, be 

 coming more yellowish on abdomen and under tail coverts; under wing 

 coverts yellowish white ; bill black, with basal portion of mandible grayish. 

 Iris brown. Feet brownish gray. 



Adult female : Similar, but paler and duller throughout ; forehead lemon 

 yellow, bordered posteriorly with a line of dark olive green ; chin and 

 throat paler and slightly greenish ; sides of head yellowish olive green ; 

 crown and occiput slightly paler than in the male. 



One specimen, apparently immature, has the blue of the head mixed 

 with olive green. A male from Martinique and another from St. Lucia 

 agree in color with the St. Vincent birds. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



* Taken from Ridgway, Birds North and Middle Am., II, p. 16, 1902. 



