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surface of remiges malachite green, the primaries with distal por- 

 tion and a broad stripe along inner edge of shaft blackish slate or 

 slate-black; bill pale dull brownish buffy (more j^ellowish or fleshy 

 in life), the maxilla with a dusky space occupying basal half of 

 tomial portion; iris orange or orange-yellow; legs and feet brownish 

 or horn color in dried skins, light greenish ash or ohvaceous in Hfe. 



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

 entire suborbital and lower part of loral region being yellowish green, 

 like auricular region, etc. ; red of forehead more restricted, sometimes 

 broken by admixture of green feathers; feathers of hindneck without 

 trace of sub terminal lilaceous bar;*^ inner webs of lateral rectrices 

 with the subbasal red spot much reduced (a mere trace, only, on next 

 to the outermost). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 296-326 (313); wing, 190.5-217 

 (206.9); tail, 97.5-123 (113.8); culmen, 27-33 (30.6); tarsus, 22.5-24 

 (23.5); outer anterior toe, 28-31.5 (29.5).'' 



Adult /fimaZe.— Length (skins), 300-320 (310); Vvdng, 205.5-210 

 (207.7); tail, 110.5-119 (114.7); culmen, 29.5-30.5 (30); tarsus, 

 23-24 (23.5); outer anterior toe, 27-31.5 (29.7).'' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; AltaMira; 

 Tautina; Tamesi), Vera Cruz (Mirador; Jalapa; Cordova; Potrero 

 near Cordova; Motzorongo; Tlalcotalpam ; Sierra de las Mistecas; 

 Playa Vicente; Plan del Rio; Colipa; San Jose Acateno; Vega de 

 Casadero), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Mexico (near City of Mexico), 

 Guanajuato, and Oaxaca (Tehuantepec ; Tuxtepec; Barrio), and 

 southward, through Guatemala (Choctum; Rio Polochic; Las Salinas; 



o- The last character, however, often present in adults. The immature plumage of 

 A. a. autumnalis is almost precisely similar to that of the adult A. a. salvini; in fact, 

 the only difference that I can detect consists in the absence, in the former, of bluish, 

 lavender, or lilaceous subtorminal bars to the feathers of the hindneck, these being 

 always present in the adult of ^. a. salvini, and in great reduction of red on subbasal 

 portion of lateral rectrices. 



^ Eleven specimens. 



c Two specimens. 



