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7. Psittacula cyanopygia. 



Psittacula cyanopygia, Souance, MS. ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zoo/ 



yll &aT ' l-J'V^- nulla ^ i Nuance, Rev. et Mag. de 

 tool. 1856, p. 15/ ; Bp Naumarmia, 1856, Camp. Psitt. n 134: 



ft^il P, fi -^i */r. 76/,, 1671, p. 100; Lawr. 



§?£ P W vY v ""* **?*>**■ P- 115, n. 8 (1878) 



Psittacula cyanopv^,^,^, jw a 2j p . 662 (1868) &fo- 76 - 



pt. 3, p 293 (1874 j Gfcfc m*. Om. iii. p. 327 (1877) • Rchnw 

 Jow-n.f. Orn 1881, p. 350 (Cto«p. B*tf. p. 190); il'toSSd 



pi£S P ' (U ° te (1887) ; Salv - * Godm - Ib ^> 1889, P. 242. 

 lsittaculus cvanopyguus, ScMeg. Mm. P.-B. Psittaci, p.' 33 (18G4) • 

 id. op. cit. Revue, p. 9 (1874). ' p ^ * j ' 



Psittacula insularis, J&Tfew. P/\ C.tf iVV 1/,,, v ™ kai /t 



Btt ii! 87) ; * ™> ltt89 > p - «S £* *tf/ S; 



P MS^). Cyan ° Pyga palHda ' A * ,Mt ' 4 "*' vi - P- 85 < 1889 ) CSonora, 



Adult male Light green; forehead, sides of the head, and under- 

 lets paler ; lower back, rump, under wing-coverts, 'and a^k s 

 turquoise-blue ; primary-coverts, secondaries, and base of the sho ter 

 primaries deeper blue ; edge of the wing green : inner web of the 

 quills underneath and greater under wing-coverts bluish green 

 narrow y edged with yellowish; upper tail-coverts and tail geen- 

 tal-teathers edged with yellow on the inner webs : « bill pale dSl 

 yellowish the basal half greyish horn-colour (wholly dull whS 

 in he ; feet dusky (whitish or flesh-coloured in life I » (bJ<Z%) 

 Tota length about o inches, wing 3-4, tail !•($, bill oi, tarsus 0-45 



Adult female .Green; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 lighter but brighter; forehead, sides of the headend unde pa 



n" s r . quiUs (excei,t terti ^ **- &™ *- «^S 



Young male Similar to the adult male, but blue of rump mixed 



nth green leathers; pnmary-coverts green, with bluish along the 



median line, and the under wing-coverts and axillars mixed green 



and turijuoise-blue. o lc ^" 



Hah. Western Mexico, and Tres Marias Islands 



1 have united to P. cyanopygia both P. insularis and P. cyano- 



Pyga r allul a . Of the first there are in the British Museum three 



specimens from Tres Marias Islands, which are a little darker but 



not larger, as stated by Mr. Ridgway, than the Mexican birds 



Of the second which .8 from Sonora, Mexico, two specimens are 



mentioned below; they only differ Horn typical P. ,•,,„„ W « in 



having a bluish huge, probably connected with the abraded con- 



dition of the feathers; the bill is not stouter, the green colour of 



ilT' 1 ' ^ I ^ ", ° 8 - V U " pe ' aml th6l0Wer P^ « »"tber 



lighter nor yellower than m typical P. cyanopygia. 



