BIRDS OP KOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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blue) terminally; outer (distal) secondaries and inner (proximal) 

 primaries deep blue (nearest cyanine), the secondaries narrowly 

 edged with light greenish blue, the primaries rather broadly margined 

 terminally with blackish; outer primaries green passing into greenish 

 blue dis tally; auricular region and sides of neck dull yellowish green, 

 Hke hindneck; loral region dusky or mixed dull greenish and dusky; 

 suborbital and malar regions, chin, throat, and chest dull light 

 grayish green or pale olive-green, the feathers (some, at least), with 

 darker narrow shaft-streaks; rest of under parts, together with 

 smaller under wing-coverts, clear light yellowish apple green; under 

 primary coverts dull slate-gra}^ narrowly margined with light yellowish 

 green; under surf ace of primaries dull slate-grayish ; under surface of 

 tail light yellowish olive, changing to deep olive-yellow ; maxilla dull 

 ivory whitish ; mandible dusky laterally with median portion (broadly) 

 ivory whitish; iris and bare orbital space yellow (naples yellow or 

 kings yellow) in life; legs and feet grayish dusky (in dried skins). 



Immature. — Similar to adults but with the orange-buff of forehead 

 more restricted, sometimes confined to median anterior portion, the 

 sides of forehead being dull greenish blue, like crown. 



Adult waZe.— Length (skins), 211-252 (226); wing, 130-143 

 (136.4); tail, 96-117.5 (106); culmen, 17.5-19.5 (18.7); tarsus, 13- 

 14.5 (13.8); outer anterior toe, 16.5-19.5 (18.1).« 



Adult fem<Lle.—Lexigi\i (skins), 206-231 (220); wing, 125.5-141.5 

 (133.1); tail, 100-112.5 (105.2); culmen, 17-19.5 (18.2); tarsus, 

 13-14 (13.7); outer anterior toe, 16.5-18.5 (17.7).^ 



Western Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Escuinapa), 

 Jalisco (Barranca Beltran; Hacienda de San Marcos), Durango 



o Tliirteen si)ecimeiis. 



^ Eleven specimens. 



