542 REVIEW OF GENUS PSITTACULA. 



warrant the naming? of a separate Tres Marias form. He says (Proc. 

 Bost. Soc, XIV, 1872, 271) : 



''There are but two specimens from the Tres Marias, both females;* 

 these ditfer from those of the main-land, of which there are eight of botli 

 sexes before me, in being of a darker green, as pointed out by Colonel 

 Grayson; they are notably darker on the rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 in the others there is a greater prevalence of a yellow shade throughout 

 the plumage; in size and color of the bills they do not differ materially 

 from the two localities ; t perhaps the Marias bird may be considered a 

 darker local race." 



9. Psittacula exquisita, sp. nov. 



(Cartagena Passerine Parrot.) 



Fsitlaciila cyanoptcra (Bodd.) Cass., Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., vii, 1860, 137; Cartagena 

 (iicc Psittacus ctjanoiHerus Bodd.). 



Sr. CHAR. — Similar to P. guianensis (Sw.), but male with entire lower 

 back and rump fine light turquoise-blue or Nile-blue (paler and greeuer 

 than in P. cyanopyqia Souance), upper tail-coverts and tail more yel- 

 lowish green, front and side of head also more yellowish green, and an- 

 terior lower parts decidedly lighter and duller green ; the female with 

 the general color of a yellower tone, the forehead much more exten- 

 sively yellow, and the greater wing-coverts light parrot-green, edged 

 with paler, more yellowish green. 



Ilabitai. — Atlantic coast of Colombia (Cartagena). 



Adult male {Jso. 70993, Cartagena, Colombia; A. Schott): Above 

 plain light green, or bright apple-green, paler and somewhat tinged 

 with grayish on hind-neck, brightening into vivid j^ellowish Paris-green 

 on fore i)art and sides of head; entire lower back and rump and greater 

 wing-coverts exquisite Nile-blue or pale turquoise-blue; upper tail 

 coverts and tail rich light yellowish green, the concealed portion 

 of the feathers inclining decidedly toward yellow; innermost primary- 

 coverts and adjacent sub-basal portion of secondaries dark blue; the 

 remaining portion of secondaries lighter greenish-blue, edged with 

 light yellowish green; outer surface of primaries vivid light green, 

 margined terminally with dusky. Anterior lower parts light apple- 

 green, the posterior portions clearer, more yellowish, green; central 

 portion of lining of wing intense hyacinth-blue, the exterior portion 

 (broadly) light green strongly tinged with Nile blue ; axillars pale emer- 

 ald-green, tinged with Nile-blue, the longer feathers broadly tipped 

 with deep hyacinth-blue; under primary-coverts bluish green, indis- 



*■ These are both ill the National Museum collection, and are the ones described 

 above. 



t This observation, as regards color of the bill, is of course based on dried skins, in 

 which diflereuccs which are very obvious in tlio living or freshly-killod birds are 

 lost. As to size the series cxauiiucd l»y nio (two adult feuiales froui Tres Marias and 

 three — besides live males — from the main-laud) supports Colonel Grayson's statement- 



