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more yellowish green ; secondaries (except innermost ones) , proximal 

 primaries, and distal half of longer primaries deep blue (nearest 

 hyacinth blue), the former edged (at least toward base) with light 

 greenish blue; outermost primary wholly dull slate-blackish or 

 dusky, the succeeding four or five primaries with basal half (approx- 

 imately) clear parrot green; alula, primary coverts, and small feathers 

 on outer side of carpo-metacarpal region pure poppy red or spectrum 

 red; middle pair of rectrices clear parrot green, passing into more 

 yellowish green terminally; next pair similar on outer web, but 

 inner webs greenish yellow passing into yellow basally, and with a 

 streak of red (more or less broad) next to shaft on sub-basal portion ; 

 third pair similar but with the red much wider and involving inner half 

 of outer web also ; fourth and fifth pairs with basal half (approxi- 

 mately) of both webs wholly red, the sixth (outermost) pair similar but 

 with outer web pale bluish green or greenish blue terminally and often 

 edged with green basally or sub-basally; rest of head, together with 

 neck, clear parrot green, immaculate anteriorly but posteriorly with 

 feathers more or. less distinctly tipped with black, these black ter- 

 minal bars very distinct only on foreneck and chest, however; under 

 parts clear light green (yellowish paris green), the under wing-coverts 

 similar or slightly more yellowish green; under primary coverts and 

 under surface of remiges malachite green, the longer primaries with 

 distal portion and a broad stripe next to shaft dusky; bill yellow; iris 

 pale yellow or yellov/ish white; ^ bare orbital space pale brownish (in 

 dried skins) ; legs and feet light brownish in dried skins, dull white "" 

 or putty color ^ in life; length (skins), 246-270 (260); wing, 175-192 

 (183.5); tail, 82.5-100 (94.9); culmen, 23.5-29 (26.1); tarsus, 18-20.5 

 (19.4); outer anterior toe, 23.5-26.5 (25. 2).^= 



Adult female.'^ — Similar to the adult male but with much less of red 

 on wing, frequently none; the alulae always ( ?) wholly green, and usu- 

 ally the primary coverts mostly green; otherwise exactly like the adult 

 male, the head being colored precisely the same; length (skins), 235- 



a Prof. A. Sumichraat. 



& M. A. Carriker, jr. 



" Nineteen specimenB. 



^ The circumstance that of eleven adult specimens which according to their respec- 

 tive collectors are females only two agree with adult males in the amount of red on 

 the wings, four of them having none whatever, leads me to believe that the two ex- 

 ceptions are cases of erroneous sex determination, and that there is a marked difference 

 between the sexes in this species. 



