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A[mazona] salvini Ridgway, Condor, vii, 1905, 155, 156, in text (Pigrea and Bonilla, 



Costa Rica). 

 Amazona autumnalis salvini Careiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 487 (Bonilla, 



Pigres, Guayabal, GuapUes, and El PozodeTerraba, Costa Rica; crit.; habits). 



AMAZONA FARINOSA INORNATA (Salvadori). 



PLAIN-COLORED PARROT. 



Similar to A.f.Jarinosa "■ but averaging smaller, and without any 

 yellow on pileum. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color parrot green, including wliole 

 head and neck, the hindneck, back, and scapulars more grayish green, 

 the under parts hghter and often more yellowish green, the occiput 

 or nape frequently suffused with a darker, more bluish or dull vio- 

 laceous hue; feathers of pileum, hindneck, and upper back margined 

 terminally with blackish, these blacldsh margins much broader and 

 always conspicuous on lower hindneck, sometimes obsolete elsewhere ; 

 tail deep parrot green for proximal half or more, the distal half 

 (approximately) much lighter and more yellowish green, especially 

 on inner webs, which are dark green proximally; outer webs of three 

 distal secondaries clear poppy red or dull spectrum, red except termi- 

 nally, where dark blue or bluish black, sometimes with more or less of 

 green between the red and blue; distal half (more or less) of primaries 

 black, passing into bluish black proximall}^; carpo-metacarpal edge 

 of wing with more or less of red; maxilla horn color or dusky, usually 

 with the lower basal portion paler, sometimes, together with mandi- 

 ble, dull ivory-yellowish or brownish buffy ; iris yellow to orange-red ; 

 bare orbital space whitish (in life) ; legs and feet horn color or dusky 

 (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 380-425 (393); wing, 233-268 

 (246.7); tail, 121.5-149 (134.8); culmen, 37-41 (39.8); tarsus, 26.5- 

 29.5 (28.1); outer anterior toe, 34.5-39.5 (37.4).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 380; wing, 240-255 (247.5); tail, 

 127.5-139 (133.2); culmen, 35-38.5 (36.7); tarsus, 26; outer anterior 

 toe, 35.5-36 (35.7).'' 



«Seep. 220. 



^ Six specimens. 



c Two specimens. 



Intergradation between this form and A. f. farinosa on the one hand and A./, viren- 

 ticeps on the other is complete, the latter also grading gradually into A./, guatemalse. 



