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on outermost rectrix, the yellow prevailing (sometimes wholly 

 replacing the red) on the innermost one;" outer web of outermost 

 rectrix darker green, edged (in part at least) with dark blue; sides of 

 head and neck and under parts light yellowish green, sometimes 

 tmged with light bluish green; under wing-coverts light yellowish 

 green, paler and more yellowish along carpo-metacarpal margin, the 

 humoral edge, including bend, usually more or less intermixed with 

 red and yellow (except in younger individuals); larger under wing- 

 coverts dull bluish green passing into light dull yellowish green on 

 margins; under surface of remiges dull bluish green (chromium to 

 malachite), the primaries with distal portion and broad stripe along 

 shaft dull blackish slate; biU horn color (more or less dark) with a 

 light-colored (pale duU buffy) area on basal sides of maxilla; iris 

 orange-red;'' legs and feet dusky (grayish in life);^ length (skins), 

 310-357 (343); wing, 215-226 (221.1); tail, 120.5-125 (122.5); cul- 

 men, 34-35 (34.6); tarsus, 25-27 (26.2); outer anterior toe, 33.5-36 

 (34.4).<= 



Immature. — Similar to adults but without any yellow on head or 

 neck, the whole hindneck light green with feathers margined ter- 

 minally with black, especially those of lower portion; little if any 

 red or yellow on humeral margin of wing. 



Adult male. —l^Qngih (skins), 310-357 (343); wing, 215-226 (221.1); 

 tail, 120.5-125 (122.5); culmen, 34-35 (34.6); tarsus, 25-27 (26.2); 

 outer anterior toe, 33.5-36 (34.4).'= 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 315-345 (331); wing, 201.5-215.5 

 (211); tail, 114.5-123.5 (119.3); culmen, 31-35 (33.1); tarsus, 23- 

 25.5 (24.2); outer anterior toe, 31-35.5 (32.9).*= 



Southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Cacoprieto; 

 Santa Maria, Chimalapa) and Chiapas (Tonala; Tapachula; Hue- 

 huetan) and southward, through Guatemala (Huamachal; Retal- 

 huleu; La Grande; San Jose; Naranjo), Salvador (San Salvador), 



a The red and yellow usually encroach more or less on inner portion of outer web, 

 except on outermost rectrix. 

 & F. Sumichrast, on labels. 

 cFour specimens. 



