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AMAZONA GUILDINGn (Vigors). 



ST. VINCENT PARROT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead, crowii, lores, rictal region and 

 suborbital region dull buffy white or cartridge buff, the posterior 

 portion of crown tinged with orange-yellow, the occiput usually 

 orange-yellow (between cadmium and light cadmium); nape ohve- 

 grayish glossed with blue, passing, through light olive-greenish, into 

 light brownish ohve tinged with orange-brown (snuff brown) on lower 

 hindneck, the feathers narrowly tipped with black and (except those 

 of extreme lower hindneck) with a concealed basal area of dull 

 orange-yellow or yellow ocher, the black tips (forming bars) becom- 

 ing gradually broader toward lower hindneck; back, scapulars, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and lesser and middle wing-coverts deep 

 orange-brown (nearly russet), narrowly margined terminally with 

 black and with blackish shafts, the smaller coverts near bend of 

 wing light grayish green; greater wing-coverts with outer webs dull 

 brownish orange or ochraceous-tawny, with distal half (approxi- 

 mately) dusky dull oHve-greenish, except along edge; primary-coverts 

 dusky ohve-greenish distally, dull orange proximally; five distal 

 secondaries with proximal hah of outer web pure cadmium orange, 

 forming a conspicuous "speculum," the distal half black, tinged with 

 blue and green next to the orange; proximal secondaries dusky bluish 

 passing into dark greenish olive on the innermost ones, all, except 

 the innermost ones, edged basally, more or less, with orange-yellowish; 

 primaries dull black, faintly tinged with violet-blue, the basal portion 

 of outer webs orange-yellow, forming a second brightly colored area; 

 middle pair of rectrices light yellow basally, dull olive-yellowish ter- 

 minally, the extensive middle area dusky violet-blue for distal half, 

 dusky ohve-green for proximal half, with yellowish olive between 

 the dusky and the yellow of basal portion; remaining rectrices with 

 basal third (approximately) deep cadmium orange, the middle third 

 dusky, faintly glossed with violet-blue and greenish ohve, the ter- 

 minal third dull orange passing into dull olive-yellow on edges 

 (broadly); cheeks (i. e,, malar region, lower portion of suborbital 

 region and anterior portion of auricular region) dull light orange- 

 yellow, the auricular region deeper yellow, usually with feathers 

 broadly tipped with pale grayish violet-blue, as are, usually, also 

 those of the lower part of malar region; upper throat dull wliitish, 

 the lower throat with feathers orange-yellow basally, pale grayish 

 violet-blue terminally, narrowly margined at tip with black; rest of 

 under parts deep orange-brown or russet (the abdomen more oliva- 

 ceous), each feather with a rather broad terminal margin of black, 

 producing distinct bars; thighs olive-yellowish; under tail-coverts 

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