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tertials) darker greenish blue (nearly cerulean blue) edged distally 

 with light yellowish green; inner (proximal) primaries greenish 

 blue passing into green distally; under primary coverts and under 

 surface of remiges dull glaucous-green, the primaries dusky toward 

 shaft; sides of head and under parts light yellowish green (apple 

 green); bill dull whitish terminally, abruptly grayish horn color or 

 dusky basally (wholly light colored in life?); iris yellow; legs and 

 feet deep brownish or dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 129-140 

 (133); wing, 88.5-92 (90.6); tail, 42.5-51.5 (47); culmen, 12.5-13 

 (12.8); tarsus, 11.5-13.5 (12.1); outer toe, 13-14 (13.6).« 



Young mole in transition plumage. — Similar to the adult male but 

 blue of rump and under wing-coverts intermixed with green, and 

 greater wing-coverts bluish green instead of blue. 



Young male, first plumage. — Lower back and rump, and under 

 wing-coverts wholly green (nearly paris green); otherwise like the 

 transition plumage described above. 



Adult female. — Similar to the young male but greater wing-coverts 

 green, concolor with back, etc., the secondaries darker green; length 

 (skins), 129-142 (133.5); wing, 86-93 (88.6); tail, 38.5-43 (41.6); 

 culmen, 11.5-13 (12.6); tarsus, 11.5-13 (12.1); outer anterior toe, 

 13.5-14 (13.9).^ 



Northwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio de 

 Mazatlan; Escuinapa; Cosala), Durango (Chacala), Zacatecas 

 (Hacienda San Juan Capistrano), Jalisco (Ixtapa), Colima (Man- 

 zaniUo Bay), and Territory of Tepic (Tepic). 



Psittacula cyanopygia Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856, 157 (no locality 

 mentioned); Icon. Perr., 1857-'58, pi. 42. — Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856 

 (Consp. Psitt., no. 134).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 570 

 (monogr.). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 249, part (Presidio 

 de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Manzillo Bay, Colima); Ibis, 1906, 464 (additional 

 references). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1897, 581, 

 part (Mazatlan and Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Manzanillo Bay; Jalisco), 



