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green (near montpellier green), passing into parrot green on hindneck, 

 the feathers broadly tipped mth dull black; general color of remain- 

 ing upper parts parrot green, the scapulars, interscapulars, and rump 

 broadly, the wing-coverts (except greater) more narrowly, tipped or 

 terminally margined with black, passing into bright yellowish green 

 (cosse green to javel green) on upper tail-coverts; alula?, primary- 

 coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries light greenish blue (cendre 

 to light cerulean), passing into deeper, more violaceous, blue on 

 inner portion of outer webs, the exposed portion of inner webs dull 

 black, except at tip; middle pair of rectrices parrot green, the next 

 pair with outer web parrot green but inner web light yellowish green 

 or greenish yellow; remaining rectrices with inner web light yellov/ish 

 green or greenish yellow, with an extensive subbasal area of deep 

 red (spectrum red), this red area narrow and sometimes broken on 

 third rectrix, becoming gradually broader toward the outermost, on 

 which it occupies more than half the width of the inner web, the 

 outer web being light greenish blue; whole throat, malar region, 

 suborbital region, and rictal region pinkish red (rose doree), the 

 feathers white basally and with indistinct whitish termmal margins 

 and shaft-streaks, the upper margin of the feathered area beneath 

 lores and eyes mostly (sometimes wholly) white ; rest of under parts, 

 except abdomen, imder taU-coverts, and thighs, parrot green," the 

 feathers broadly tipped with black; abdomen (more or loss exten- 

 sively) dull purplish red (eugenia red to daphne red), some of the 

 feathers green basally and tipped with blackish; thighs pale grayish 

 blue or light glaucous-blue; under tail-coverts clear light yellowish 

 green or green-yellow tmged with viridian yellow; smaller under 

 wing-coverts light bluish green (dull light cendr6 green to light 

 oriental green), the feathers narrowly tipped with black — those 

 coverts on edge of wing beneath basal half of alula, whitish; greater 

 under wing-coverts and under surface of remiges light dull bluish 

 green or greenish glaucous-blue, the primaries with»a broad stripe 

 of dull blackish slate along shaft and with the naiTowed distal portion 

 wholly of the latter color; bill dull light brownish yellow (dull cream- 

 buffy) or ivory whitish; iris yellow or gTayish yellow; legs and feet 

 (in dried skins) light buffy brownish, yellowish in life. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 280-298 (291); wmg, 185-195.5 

 (191.8); tail, 99-115 (107.7); culmen, 23.5-26.5 (25); tai-sus, 19-21 

 (20.3); outer anterior toe, 28-31 (29.6).^ 



« Sometimea there are a few red feathers on median line of chest or breast. 

 ^ Five specirnens. 



