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KEY TO THE SPECIES OP UROCHROMA. 



a. Scapulars green (like general color of upper parts). 

 b. Rectrices without red or purple (more or less yellowish, in part), 

 c. Head entirely green; under wing-coverts green. 

 d. Wing-coverts brown with paler tips, the distal greater coverts orange. (Cen- 

 tral Colombia.) TJrochroma stictoptera (extralimital).o 



dd. Wing-coverts, including distal greater coverts, green with black centers. 



(Central Colombia.") Urochroma emmae (extralimital).^ 



cc. Head partly blue or red; under ^Ting-covert8 red and yellow. 

 d. Forehead (broadly) dull blue. (Venezuela to eastern Panama.) 



Urochroma dllectissima (p. 199). 

 dd. Forehead and more or less of crown red. (Eastern Costa Rica.) 



Urochroma costaricensis (p. 200). 



bb. Rectrices purplish red tipped with green. (Trinidad, Venezuela, and 



Guianas to eastern Ecuador and Peru.). . . .Urochroma huetii (extralimital).c 



aa. Scapulars brown or black. 



b. Scapulars dull black or dark sooty brown (also interscapulars, lesser and middle 



wing-coverts, and rump). 



c. Greater wing-coverts greenish yellow tipped with dull blue. (Venezuela and 



Trinidad.) Urochroma batavica (extralimital).*^ 



o Urochroma stictoptera Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 112, pi. 11 (interior 

 of Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 357 

 (Bogota). — Psittacula stictoptera Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 2, 1868, 330. — Eiichroura 

 stictoptera Reichenow, Journ. fiir Om., 1881, 358 (Consp. Psitt., p. 198). 



& Urochroma emmse Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 357 (Bogota, Colombia; 

 ex Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1889, 202=nomen nudum). 



c Psittacus huetii Temminck, PI. Col., li\T. 83, Feb., 1830, pi. 491 and text (Peru?).— 

 Psittacula hueti Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 619; Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 684.— 

 Pyrrhulopsis hueti Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 152. — Urochromn hueti 

 Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt., no. 124; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XX, 1891, 355. — Euchroura hueti Reichenow, Journ. fiir Om., 1881, 360 (Consp. Psitt., 

 p. 200). 



^Psittacus batavica Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., Dec, 1783, 49 ("Batavia"; based on 

 Petit Perruche de Batavia Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 791, fig. 1). — P[sittacula] batavica 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 423. — Psittacula batavica L^otaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 

 331. — [Urochrorrm] batavica Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 167, no. 8359. — Psittacus (cin- 

 gulatus) Scopoli, Delic. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., ii, 1786, 86 ("Luzon"; based on La 

 Petite Perruche de V Isle de Lufon Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin^e, p. 78, pi. 41). — Psit- 

 tacula cingulata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 69; Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 

 1868, 678. — [Urochroma] cingulata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 115. — 

 Urochroma cingulata Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 351. — Eucinetus 

 cingulatus Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1881, pi 24, fig. 2. — Euchroura cingulata Reiche- 

 now, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 360 (Consp. Psitt., p. 200). — [Psittacusl melanopterus 

 (not of Scopoli) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 350. — Psittacus microptei-us Kuhl, Consp. 

 Psitt., 1820, 67 ("Lufon"; based on Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin^e, pi. 41). — Loriculus 

 (Cyclopsitta?) micropterus von Martins, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, 22. — Psittacula melanop- 

 tera Stephens, Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 142; Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 

 197. — Ps[ittacula]melanopteraV^Sigler, Mon. Psitt., 1832,619. — [Pyrrhulopsis] melanop- 

 terus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 152. — Urochroma. melanoptera Bonaparte, 

 Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt., no. 129; Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 356. 



