266 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



bluish green (bluish gray-green) with indistinct tenninal margins of 

 black to the feathers; hindneck, back, and scapulars bright parrot 

 green, the feathers margined terminally with black, these heavier on 

 neck, narrower elsewhere; wing-coverts slightly more olivaceous 

 green (approaching oil green); rump lighter green (between parrot 

 green and calliste green), passing into more yellowish green (cosse 

 green to javel green) on upper tail-coverts; primary coverts, prima- 

 ries, and distal secondaries deep violet-blue, passing into light green- 

 ish blue or bluish green on edges of feathers — the secondaries more 

 greenish on basal or subbasal portion, the primaries more blackish 

 distally; middle rectrices parrot green, tinged with blue at extreme 

 base; next pair with outer web mostly parrot green, the inner web 

 greenish yellow, tinged with green toward shaft, the basal or sub- 

 basal third usually with a red median streak (more or less broad), 

 occupying a portion of each web along both sides of shaft; other 

 rectrices similar to the second but with the red (dull spectrum red or 

 Chinese vermilion) space much larger, occupying full width of inner 

 web (which sometimes is more or less yellowish on edge) and greater 

 part of that of outer web, the outer web of lateral rectrix mostly (some- 

 times wholly) light blue or greenish blue; general color of under 

 parts light parrot green (changing to emerald or cendre green in 

 certain lights), the feathers narrowly tipped with blackish; center of 

 throat usually tinged or suffused with pale red, and lower abdomen 

 with a more or less extensive area of brownish red (eugenia red to 

 nearly dragon's-blood red), this sometimes occupying nearly whole of 

 abdomen ; under tail-coverts light greenish yellow or yellowish green 

 (green-yellow or yellowish viridine yellow to yellowish apple green) ; 

 smaller under wing-coverts light parrot green, those along edge of 

 wing (beneath basal half of alulae) pale greenish yeUow; larger under 

 wing-coverts light bluish green, margined distally with pale yellow- 

 ish green ; under surface of remiges light greenish blue (nearly glau- 

 cous-blue), with a broad blackish slaty stripe next to shaft, this 

 occupying full width of the primaries beyond their emarginations ; 

 bill, cere, and bare orbital space dull brownish yellow (duU cream- 

 buff) in dried skins; legs and feet duU light brownish (in dried skins) ; 

 length (skins), 270-293 (281); wmg, 182-196 (190.7); tail, 96-108.5 

 (103); culmen, 25-28.5 (26.5); tarsus, 18.5-22 (20.4); outer anterior 

 toe, 24-31.5 (28.2).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and probably not always 

 distinguishable, but usually (?) with crown more greenish (some- 

 times quite green), and auricular region less extensively blackish 

 (sometimes merely streaked with black, on upper portion); length 

 (skins), 270-287 (279); wing, 183-198 (190.2); tail, 94-108 (91.1); 



o Ten specimens. 



