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basally; primaries narrowly margined terminally with black; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail clear light yellowish green, the feathers passing 

 into yellow basally, the inner webs of rectrices greenish yellow passing 

 into pure yellow basally; anterior under parts light apple green, pass- 

 ing into clear Hght yellowish green on posterior under parts, the 

 feathers (especially under taU-coverts) Ught yellow basally; central 

 smaller under wing-coverts intense hyacinth blue, those near edge of 

 wing light nile blue tinged with emerald green ; axillars light emerald 

 green broadly tipped with deep hyacinth blue; under primary coverts 

 dull bluish green narrowly margined at tips with bluish dusky; under 

 surface of wings much paler dull bluish green, the secondaries and 

 proximal primaries edged with pale yellow; bill wholly dull whitish; 

 legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skm); length (skins), 114-118 

 (117); wing, 75.5-85 (79.4); tail, 36-39 (37.1); culmen, 11.5-12.5 

 (12); tarsus, 10.5-11.5 (11.1); outer anterior toe, 12.5-13.5 (12.6). « 



Adult female. —Simiisir to adult male but without any blue; rump 

 and lower back vivid paris green, primary coverts and secondaries 

 deep grass green, edged with paler; forehead gamboge yellow; under 

 wmg-coverts and axillars light paris green; length (skins), 113-130 

 (122); wing, 79.5-80.5 (80); tail, 39-43.5 (41); culmen, 11-11.5 

 (11.3); tarsus, 10.5-11 (10.7); outer anterior toe, 12-13 (12.5).^ 



Immature female. — Similar to the adult female but forehead light 

 yellowish green or greenish yellow. 



Caribbean coast of Colombia (Cartagena; Cienega and Fundacion, 

 Santa Marta; Valle deUpare; Valencia; Barranquilla), and eastern 

 Panamd? 



(?) Psittacula cyanoptera (not Psittacus cyanopterus Boddaert?) Wyatt, Ibis, 



1871, 382 (Cienega, Colombia).— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 176 (Valle 



de Upare, 700 ft., and Valencia, Colombia). 

 Psittacula cyanoptera (not Psittacus cyanopterus Boddsert) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., vii, 1860, 137 (Cartagena, Colombia). 

 Psittacula spengeli Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 614 (Barranquilla, 



Colombia; coll. Bremen Mus.) — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 



250 (Barranquilla and Cartagena, Colombia; Panama?). 

 P[sittacula] spengeli Ridgway, Auk, v, 1888, 461, 462 (crit.). — Hartlaub, Ibis, 



1888, 493, in text (crit.). 

 Ps[ittacula] spengeli Hartlaub, Joiurn. fiir Orn., 1889, 113, 114, in text (crit.). 

 [Psittacula] spengeli Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 19. 



Psittacula spengleri [error] Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, pi. 38, fig. 1. 

 Psittacula exquisita Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 34, Aug. 6, 1888, 533, 



542 (Cartagena, Colombia; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Hartlaub, Join-n. fiir 



Orn., 1889, 114, in text (crit.). 

 Ps[ittacula] exquisita Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 113, in text. 

 P[sittacula] exquisita Ridgway, Auk, v, 1888, 461, 462 (crit.). — Hartlaub, 



Ibis, 1888, 493, in text (crit.). 



<^ Four specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



