24. UROCHROMA. 



353 



Adult ^ Green j back, scapulars, and rump brownish black- 

 checks throat, flanks, and under tail-coverts light green • breast 

 and abdomen glaucous with a greenish tinge ; primary-coverts and 

 secondaries brown-black; primaries black, edged with green on the 

 outer webs ; along the metacarpal edge an obscure dull reddish 

 mark ; greater under wing-coverts and inner webs of the quills 

 below glaucous green ; two central tail-feathers green, the lateral 

 ones red at the base, and with a broad black band near the tip 

 which is green : the outer tail-feather purple on the outer web 



bill dusky yellowish, brownish grey on the edges and at the tip • 

 feet yellowish grey; iris brownish grey" (Wied). Total length 

 6-2 inches, wing 4-1, tail 1-6, bill 0-6, tarsus 0-42. 



Female. Like the, male, only a little duller. 



Huh. South-eastern Brazil." 



a. Ad. sk. S. America 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil 



Purchased. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Ad.sk. Bzhm (Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Urochroma purpurata. 



Purple-tailed Parrakeet, Lath. Syn. i. p. 315, n. 121 (1781); id, op 

 cit. Suppl. u. p. 95, n. 27 (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 268 (1822) 



p. 723 (1848). 

 Psittacus porphyrurus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. p. 547, pi. 16 (1790) • id 



Gen. Zool, viii. 2, p. 547 (1811). " 



Psittacus marginatum Vieill. {nee Lath.) N. D. xxv. p. 379 (1817) 

 Isittacula purpurata, Steph. Gen. Zoo/, xiv. p. 142 (1826)- Less Tr 



dOm .p. 203 (1831) ; Wagl, Mon. Psitt. p. 618 (1832) ; G R Gr 

 Is'vf' r VS' a ^( l ^)i^rm. 8yst. Ueb. ii. p.'l97 (notej 



(1856); G MGr List Psf Brit. Mm. p. 88 (1859); SchleJ. 



, £&i zS 1 ^ lttaC V. P " m (18G4 ) ; Fl ' nsch > P«P«ff-n. P- 680 

 (1868); Pelz. Orn Bras. pp. 261, 449, liv (1871) ; id. Ibis, 1873, 

 V 32; Schley. Mas P.-B p s ittaci, Reeue, p. 30 (1874); Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. m. p. 329 (1877). 

 ? V na^ X& mada 8- as cariensis, Schomb. (nee Briss.) Guian. iii. p. 723 



(184:8). 



Pyrrhulopsis purpuratus, Bp. Pee. et Mar/, de Zool. 18-54, p J 5 ' 

 n. 156; toruanet, Per. et Ma,,, de Zool. 1856, p. 156 ; Sousa, Mu7 

 Nac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 13 (1869). 



Pyrrhulopsis porphyrurus, Bp. Per. et May. de Zool. 1854, p 15-> 

 n. 128. r " ' 



Urochroma purpurata, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt n 125 • 

 Souancd, Icon. Pen: pi. xxvii. (1857) ; Sclat. Cat. Am B v 35o' 

 £2131(1862); Sclat £ Sale P Z. S. 1867, pp. 589, %&&$'■ 

 G. P. Gr. Iland-ltst, n. p. 167, u. 8362 (1870) ; Sclat. | Sale. 

 Nome, icl Av Nntrog p. 115. „ 5 (1873); Sale. Ibis, 1886, 

 p. /0; W. L. Sclat, Ibis, 188/, p. 317. 



Urochroma porphyrura, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt n 127 



Paittacula vindicauda, G. P. Gr. List Psitt, Brit. Mm v'h8(Q\ 

 (1859) ; Sehhg. Mm. P.-li. Psittaci, p. 68 ( 1864 1. ' " 1 ¥ ' 



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