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mandible,"'^ in life; iris with inner ring "brown ocher, central portion 

 chrome [yellow], outer edge orange"; ° bare orbital space dusky lead 

 color; ^ toes lead color "• or Ught gray. ^ 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 280-340 (311); wing, 196-223.5 

 (209.5); tail, 113.5-127 (121); cuhnen, 28-32 (29.9); tarsus, 20-23.5 

 (22.1); outer anterior toe, 26.5-31.5 (28. 7). '^ 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 300-311 (305); wing, 189-200 (195); 

 tail, 110.5-116 (114.2); culmen, 27.5-29 (28.2); tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); 

 outer anterior toe, 25-27 (26). <* 



Western Mexico, in States of Chihuahua (La Trompa; Mna Abun- 

 dancia), Sonora (Alamos), Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio de Mazatlan; 

 Escuinapa; Cosala; Culebra; Puntade Mita; Choix), Mchoacan (Vol- 

 can de Jorulla), Jalisco (Las Palmas; Barranca Ibarra; Barranca 

 Veltran), Durango (Chacala) , Colima (Rio de la Armeria; Cohma), and 

 Oaxaca (Putla; Ventosa; Zandtepec; Tehuantepec) , and Territory of 

 Tepio (San Bias). 



Chrysotis viridigenalis (not of Cassin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1857, 230, 

 in text (Mexico); 1874, 206 (living specimens in Zool. Garden). — Souance, 

 Icon. Perr., 1857, part, pi. 31, upper fig. ("California"). 



Chrysotis viridigenalis var. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidse, 1859, 82 

 (spec. b). 



{2)[Chrysotis] glaudceps Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 368, in text, under 

 C viridigenalis (ex Hartlaub, manuscript, fide Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., 

 Peittacidae, 1859, 82). 



Chrysotis finschi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. Oct. 1), 298 (Mexico; 

 coll. Brit. Mus.); 1874, 206, pi. 34.— Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 543.— 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1871, 87, 97 (range; crit.). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 4, 1876, 37 (Tehuantepec City, Oaxaca). — Coues and Streets, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 12 (Mita Point, Sinaloa). — Reichenow, Vogel- 

 bild., 1881, in text to pi. 19, fig. 6.— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1889, 242, 

 in text (w. Mexico); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1897, 589 (Choix, Culebra, 

 Mazatlan, and Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic; Rio de Arme- 

 ria, Colima; Beltran, Jalisco; Putla, Ventosa, Zanatepec, and Tehuantepec, 

 Oaxaca).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 298; Ibis, 1906, 647. 



