540 REVIEW OF GENUS PSITTACULA. 



7. Psittacula cyanopygia Solanck. 

 (Mexican Passerine Parrot.) 



J'nillacula cyanopi/ijia Souanci':, Kev. et Mag., viii, Irtrui, 157 (hal). ignot.). 



J'siltacida cuanopj/fjn FiNSCii., Moii. Papag., ii, IHfiS, G()2 ("Boliva;" '•Upper Ama- 

 zons").— Lawk., Mem. Bo.st. Soc., ii, pt. iii. No. :i, 1H74, 297 (Mazatlan ; 

 Manzanillo Hay). 



Fsittaculus cudtiopiiijiHH SciiLKG., Mns. P. B., Psittaei, I8(i4, 33 (" Bolivia"). 



Psittacula passerina, iinhii])ec'wH ciianopyija Ekictiknow, Cousp. Psitt., 1882, 190. 



Ilabitaf. — Western Mexico, from Manzanillo Bay to Mazatlan. 



Sp. cuau. — Similar to /*. passcrina (Linn.), but larger and blue of the 

 rump, etc., light turquoise, instead of cobalt. 



Adult male (Xo. 514:.'3o, Mazatlan, Mexico, January, 18GS; F. Bi.sclioft') : 

 Above uniform light parrot green; beneath similar, but much paler, iu- 

 clining to apple-green ; lower back and rump, greater wing-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillars very bright light turquoise-blue ; sec- 

 ondaries (except tertials), shorter primaries (except toward tips), and 

 primary-coverts (except three outer feathers), deeper blue, inclining to 

 cerulean blue; under surface of remiges and under primary coverts, dull 

 glaucous-green, more yellowish along edges; bill [)ale dull yellowi.sh ; 

 the basal half grayish horn-color (wholly dull whitish in life); legs and 

 feet dusky (whitish or flesh-colored in lii'e ?). Length (before skinning) 

 4.50; stretch of wings 11, wing 3 GO, tail 1.75, culmen .50, dei)th of bill 

 at base .55, tarsus .48, inner toe .55. 



Young male transition plumage (No. 5143G, same locality and collector, 

 February, 1SG8) : Similar to the adult male, but blue of rump mixed 

 with bright green feathers, an<l not extended over lower back, greater 

 wing-coverts green (with bluish along the median line), and the under 

 Wing-coverts and axillars mixed green and turquoise-blue. Length (be. 

 fore skinning) 5; extent 11, wing 3.45, tail 1.80, culmen .50, tarsus. 47, 

 inner toe .55. 



Young male, {first jplumagef) (No. 37345, Mazatlan, Mexico; Col. A. 

 J, Grayson) : Lower back and fump entirely bright green (inclining to 

 Paiis-green); under wing-coverts and axillars similar but lighter; wing 

 exteriorly as in the preceding. Length (skin) 5.40, wing 3.50, tail 1.80, 

 culmen .50, tarsus .47, middle toe .57. 



Adult female {'So. 3734G, Mazatlan, Mexico; Col. A. J. Grayson): 

 Above entirely light parrot-green, the rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail brighter, inclining to Paris-green; remiges (except tertials) darker 

 green than coverts; fore part of head and lower parts, including under 

 wing-coverts and axillars, light ai)ple-green ; no blue whatever. Length 

 (skin) 5.C0, wing 3.50, tail 1.80, culmen .47, tarsus .47, inner toe .53. 



"The typical specimen described by Souance from the Mexican collec- 

 tion, was without locality. Another in the Leyden Museum is labeled 

 'River Amazon,' but without the name of the collector, while the third 

 specimen known to me in the British Museum is said to have been ob- 



