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ee. Inner webs of rectrices without red near base." 

 /. Larger (wing 233-268 mm.); no red on forehead, and no black terminal 

 margins to feathers of under parts. {Amazona farinosa.) 

 g. Pileum green (sometimes more or less tinged with blue or \'iolet). 

 h. Carpo-metacarpal edge of wing with distinct red line. 

 i. Forehead visually (?) with more or less of yellow. (Guianas to 



eastern Brazil.) Amazona farinosa farinosa (extralimital).& 



a. Forehead wholly green. (Eastern Panama to eastern Ecuador, 

 and eastern Peru; Bolivia ?) 



Amazona farinosa inornata (p. 239). 

 hh. Carpo-metacarpal edge of wing without more than a trace of red 

 (usually with none). (Western Panama to Nicaragua.) 



Amazona farinosa virenticeps (p. 240). 

 gg. Pileum blue, in conspicuous contrast with the general green color. 

 (Guatemala to southern Mexico.) 



Amazona farinosa guatemalae (p. 241). 

 ff. Smaller (wing 192-224 mm.); forehead red; under parts with black 

 terminal margins to feathers. 

 g. Forehead and crown bright red. (Northeastern Mexico.) 



Amazona viridigenalis (p. 242). 

 gg. Forehead (only) red; crown green, or green and lilac. 

 h. Feathers of crown without lilac or pale violet-blue margins; forehead 



brighter red Amazona viridigenalis, young (p. 243). 



lih. Feathers of crown (also occiput and nape) margined with lilac or 

 pale bluish; forehead darker red. (Western Mexico.) 



Amazona finschi (p. 244). 

 hh. Bend of wing conspicuously red or yellow, 

 c. Bend of wing red. 

 d. Superciliary region yellow (whole head and neck yellow in adults). {Ama- 

 zona oratrix.) 

 c. Green of under parts more yellowish ; bill narrower (transversely) , especially 

 the mandible. (Mexico to southern Honduras.) 



Amazona oratrix oratrix (p. 246). 

 ee. Green of vmder parts less yellowish; bill broader (transversely), especially 

 the mandible. (Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico.) 



Amazona oratrix tresmariae (p. 249). 



o Sometimes there is a little red (usually a mere touch) beyond the middle portion, 

 or on the proximal portion of the lighter green distal half; its position being thus 

 essentially different from that in species of the foregoing group. 



^ Psittacus farinosus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., Dec. 1, 1783, 52 (Cayenne; based on 

 Le Perroquet Meunier de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 861). — C[hrysotis] farinosus 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 422. — Chrysotis farinosa Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., 

 Psittacidse, 1859, 77; Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 565; Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1881, 

 pi. 19, fig. 1; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 280. — Amazona farinosa 

 Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 52; Revue, 1874, 27. — Androglossa farinosa 

 Reichenow, Joum. fiir Orn., 1881, 368 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 20?,.— {Psittacus] 

 pulverulentus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 341 (Cayenne; based on Meunier ou 

 Crick poudre Buff on. Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 225; Meunier de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. 

 Enl., pl. 861; Meally Green Parrot Latham, Synopsis Birds, i, pt. i, 291); Latham, 

 Index Orn., i, 1790, 123. — Psittacus pulverulentus Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 81; 

 Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 34, pl. 45. — [Chrysotis] pulverulentus Swainson, Classif. 

 Birds, ii, 1837, 301. — [Chrysotis] pulverulenta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 

 1854, 151. 



