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DROCHROMA DILECTISSIMA Sclater and Salvin. 



BLITE-FROITTED PARROTLET. 



Adult male. — General color bright parrot green, lighter and more 

 yellowish green on under parts; forehead and crown greenish blue 

 (verditer blue), gradually passing into green of hindneck, etc.; a 

 supraloral streak of dull vermilion or poppy red, and another of same 

 color along lower edge of bare orbital space; chin and lower portion 

 of malar region wax yellow or dull gamboge yellow; innermost 

 anterior lesser wing-coverts black; lower or outermost lesser middle, 

 and greater wing-coverts, together with alula and innermost primary 

 coverts, pure poppy red (the greater coverts narrowly tipped with 

 yellow), forming a very conspicuous elongated patch on wing; outer- 

 most primary coverts, secondaries (except proximal ones), and pri- 

 maries black, the last (except outermost and proximal quills) edged 

 (rather broadly) with bluish green; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 rich chrome yellow, the coverts along margin of wing red, slightly 

 intermixed with yellow; under primary coverts dusky, tipped with 

 green or yellowish, the outermost ones mostly dull bluish green; under 

 surface of remiges bluish green (deep malachite), the primaries with 

 a broad stripe of dusky next to shaft; tail clear canary yellow on 

 inner webs, light yellowish green or greenish yellow edged with green 

 on outer webs, and crossed by a terminal or subterminal band of 

 black (narrow and subterminal, the tip being green, on lateral rectrices, 

 very broad and terminal, or with only a very narrow green tip, on 

 middle rectrices), this margined anteriorly on outer webs with green; 

 bill pale brownish buffy, the basal portion horn color; feet horn 

 color (in dried skins); length (skin), 142; wing, 112; tail, 42; cul- 

 men (chord), 15.5; tarsus, 12; outer anterior toe, 16.*^ 



Adult female . — Similar to the adult male but without red on outer 

 sm-face of the wing, the coverts being wholly green, the black edge 

 to humeral region continued to and involving the bend ; alulae black, 

 suffused with bluish green, primary coverts all black with outer 

 webs partly bluish green, outer webs of distal secondaries mostly 

 green, and outer webs of primaries wholly green; black tail-band 

 much restricted, wanting on outermost rectrix, reduced to a spot 

 on each web on middle rectrices; length (skin), 138; wing, 107; tail, 

 42; culmen, 15; tarsus, 10; outer anterior toe, 15." 



Eastern Panamd (near head of Rio Limon, Mt. Pirri, 5,200 ft.); 

 Venezuela (Merida; Esquuque, Trujillo). 



Urochroma dilectissiTna Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870 (pub. 



April, 1871), 788, pi. 47 (south of Merida, Venezuela; coll. P. L. Sclater).— 



Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 356 (Merida and Esquuque, 



Trujillo, Venezuela). 

 [Urochroma] dilectissima Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr, 1873, 115. 

 Euchroura dilectissima Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., Oct., 1881, 361 (monogr.); 



Consp. Psitt., 1882, 201); Vogelbild., 1883, Naclitr., 116. 



« One specimen, from Mt. Pirri, eastern Panama. 



