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BULLETIN 50_, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ARATINGA RUBRITORQUIS (Sclater). 



RED-THROATED PAROQUET. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Whole tliroat and foreneck, together with 

 lower portion of malar region, rod or reddish orange (grenadine red 

 to orange chrome), the feathers yellow beneath sm*faco; rest of 

 plumage clear light parrot green above, becoming brighter and more 

 yellowish green (deeper than apple green) on sides of head, the 

 primaries and primary coverts slightly more bluish green; primaries, 

 rectrices, etc., with black shafts, the first with tip of inner webs nar- 

 rowly margined with blackish; a few red or reddish orange feathers on 

 sides of neck and across hindneck, forming indication of a broken 

 collar; under parts, posterior to red or orange of foreneck, clear yel- 

 lowish apple green, passing into apple green on under tail-coverts; 

 smaller under wing-coverts wholly clear apple green, the under 

 primary coverts and under surface of remiges and rectrices light 

 yellowish olive or deep olive-yellowish; bill light bro%vnish buffy; 

 naked orbital space pale brownish (whitish or pale flesh color in 

 life?); legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially hke adults but with the red (or reddish 

 orange) and yellow of throat, foreneck, etc., replaced by hght green, 

 the green of under parts of body slightly darker or duller. 



Adult male. —LQngili (skins), 250-265 (257); wing, 156-164 (161.4); 

 tail, 115-124.5 (120.7); culmen, 24.5-26 (25.1); tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); 

 outer anterior toe, 20.5-21.5 (21).« 



Adult female. —'LQngi\x (skins), 257-275 (264); wing, 154-162 (159); 

 tail, 112-119.5 (116.8); culmen, 23-24.5 (23.7); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 (17); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-22 (21).^ 



Guatemala (Iguana; Gualan) and Salvador (Volcan do San Miguel 

 to Nicaragua (San Rafael del Norte; Matagalpa) .'^ 



Conunis rubritorquis Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1886 (pt. iv, April 1, 1887), 

 539, pL 56 ("South America or AVest Indies"; coll. Zool. Soc. Lond.). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Ibis, 1892, 328 (centr. Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1897, 573 (Volcan de San Miguel, Salvador; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 



[Conurus] rubritorquis Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 11. 



c Not yet recorded from Honduras. 



