3.50 



rSITTACIB.r. 



a. Ad. st. S. America (A. R. Wallace?). Purchased. 



b. Juv. sk. Para (A. R. Wallace). Sclater Coll. 

 c.cTimm.sk. Amazons (Ortun). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



24. UR0CHR0MA. 



Type. 



Pyrrhulopsis, Bp. (nee Rchnb.) Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool. 1854, p. 152 U. hueti. 



Touit, G. R. Gr. List Gim. 8f Subg. B. p. 89, n. 



1508 (1855) U. hueti. 



Urockroma, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. 



gen. 30 U. kueti. 



Urockroa, Sund. Meth. nat. A v. disp. Tent. p. 70 



(1872) (nom. emend.) (nee Gould, 1856) U. purpurata. 



Euckroura, Rchnw. Jown. f. Orn. 1881, p. 351 . . U. purpurata. 



Range. From Colombia and Guiana to the Amazon Valley, and 

 South-eastern Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Scapulars black or brown. 

 a'. Back aud scapulars blackish brown ; under- 

 pays glaucous, or greyish green. 

 a". Wing -with a broad gi eenish-yellow band 

 on the greater upper wing-coverts ; smaller 

 and median upper wing-coverts black .... cingtdata, p. 351. 

 b". No yellow band on the wing ; rump black ; 

 upper wing-coverts green ; lateral tail- 

 feathers red, with a broad black band near 



the tips icierli, p. 352. 



b'. Back green, contrasting with tke black or 

 brown scapulars. 

 c''. Rump blue ; tail purple-red ; female witk 



a green band at tke tip of tke tail purpurata, p. 353. 



d" . Rump with no distinct blue patch, only 

 with a slight bluish tinge ; tail ochre- 

 yellow surda, p. 354. 



b. Scapulars green, like the back. 



c'. Forehead and anterior part of the cheeks, or 

 forehead alone, blue. 

 e". Under wing-coverts, except the greater ones, 

 and axillaries red ; tail in the male purple- 

 red, green in tke female hueti, p. 355. 



/"''. Outermost under wing-coverts red, the 



innermost ones and axillaries yellow ; tail 



mostly yellow, witk a black band at the tip. dilectissima, p. 356. 



d'. Head entirely green, with no blue whatever ; 



under wing-coverts green ; tail green, with a 



brown-yellow tinge on the inner webs of the 



lateral tail-feathers and below. 



g" . Upper wing-coverts brown, with lighter 



tips ; outermost upper greater wing-coverts 



orange ._ stictoptera, p. 357. 



h". Upper wing-coverts green, black in the 



middle, none of them orange emmep, p. 357. 



