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upper tail-coverts, and tail clear, bright green (nearly emerald green) ; 

 lesser and middle wing-coverts raw-umber brown (the feathers green- 

 ish below surface), passing into oil green on outermost (distal) coverts; 

 greater coverts yellowish green (between apple green and parrot 

 green); secondaries, except inner ones (tertials) darker green, the 

 primaries similar but sometimes more bluish, margined terminally 

 (more or less distinctly) with dusky, their shafts black; primary 

 coverts usually darker and more bluish green; a large spot of pure 

 orange or cadmium orange on lower chin and upper throat (the upper 

 chin being naked); rest of under parts clear light yellowish green 

 (nearly apple green), the posterior portions tinged, more or less, with 

 light emerald or paris green; smaller under wing-coverts clear chrome 

 yellow, tinged with green toward edge of wing, which is partly light 

 yellowish green;* under primary coverts and inner web of remiges 

 malachite green, the primaries with a broad mesial stripe of dusky; 

 bill pale buffy brownish (pale flesh color in life); cere, bare orbital 

 space, and bare chin space whitish; iris brown; legs and feet light 

 brownish (pale flesh color in life). 



Adult male.— hength (sldns), 158-180 (160); wing, 105-117 (110.9); 

 tail, 53-65 (63.6); culmen, 13-17 (15.6); tarsus, 12-14 (12.7); outer 

 anterior toe, 15.5-17 (16.4).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skms), 156-176 (167); wing, 101.5-114 

 (108.4); tail, 55-66 (61.1); culmeit, 13.5-17 (15.2); tarsus, 11.5-13 

 (12.3); outer anterior toe, 15-17 (15.7).<= 



a As a rule, females have the under wing-coverts somewhat less purely or less 

 extensively yellow than adult males, and some (perhaps younger birds) have them 

 yellowish green rather than yellow. 



b Eight specimens. 



c Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Cul- 

 men. 



Tarsus, 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Oaxaca, s. Mexico 



One adult male from Salvador 



Four adult males from Costa Rica (3) and vr. Panama (1). 



Ten adult males from Panama (Canal Zone) 



Two adult males from Santa Marta, Colombia 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Oaxaca 



Three adult females from Costa Rica 



Ten adult females from Panama 



One adult female (type of Psittovius subcaruleus Lawrence) 



from Panama , 



One adult female from Darien (Rio Atrato) 



Two adult females from Santa Marta, Colombia 



114 

 112 



no. 7 



109.6 

 114.2 



109.5 

 111.2 

 106.4 



113 

 104 

 113.2 



58 



62 



59.5 



60.9 



63.7 



60 

 62 

 59.5 



64.5 

 62.5 

 64.5 



16.5 



15 



16.4 



15.2 



15.7 



15 



16.3 



14.6 



16.5 

 15.5 

 15.5 



12.5 

 12.5 

 12.9 

 12.6 

 12.5 



13 



12.7 

 12 



17 



16.5 



16.6 



16.3 



16.2 



16 



15.8 



15.5 



17 



12.7 



The series from' southern Mexico, Guatemala, etc., is much too small to show whether 

 there is any difference from those from more southern localities. The very few speci- 

 mens of the former show differences, which may or may not prove constant. 



