24. TTROCHROMA. 357 



Achilt male. Green, the underpays lighter and more yellowish ; 

 forehead blue, crown glaucous ; a small spot on the middle of the 

 frontal edge, between the nostrils, lores, and a streak under the 

 eyes scarlet ; anterior and lower part of the cheeks and chin yellow ; 

 cubital edge black ; beud of the wing, upper and under wing-coverts, 

 bastard-wing, and innermost primary-coverts scarlet ; outermost 

 primary-coverts black ; quills black, edged with green on the outer 

 webs ; innermost under wing-coverts yellow ; the outermost greater 

 ones, and inner webs of the quills below, dull green ; tail-feathers 

 yellow, on the outer webs edged with green, all, except the two 

 outer ones, tipped with black, the black tip increasing towards the 

 central feathers, which have a green portion between the yellow base 

 and the black tips : bill yellowish at the tip, lead-colour at the 

 base; feet dark lead-colour : "iris pale yellow-brown "( Goering). 

 Total length G-6 inches, wing 4-5, tail 1-8, bill 0-7, tarsus 0*45. 



Female. Differs from the male in having very little red on the 

 bend of the wing ; the bastard-wing black, like the primary- coverts, 

 and the outer wing-coverts green like the inner ones : " iris pale 

 brown " {Goering). 



Hub. Venezuela. 



a. <$ ad. sk. South of Merida, Venezuela (H. Goering). Sclater Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. 5 ad. sk. Esquuque, Trujillo, Venezuela {H. Goering). Sclater Coll. 



7. Urochroma stictoptera. 



Urochroma stictoptera, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 112, pi. xi. • id Cat 

 Am. B. p. 357, n. 2133 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p 167 

 n. 8365 (1870) ; Sclat. 8f Salv. Nomend. Av. Neotrop. p 114 

 n. 1 (1873). l ' 



Psittacula stictoptera, Finsch, Papag. ii. 2, p. 671 (1868) • Gieb 

 Th&s. Orn. iii. p. 330 (1877). 



Eucliroura stictoptera, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p 358 (Corup 

 Psitt. p. 198) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 113 (1883). 



Adult. Green ; wings brown ; two of the outermost greater upper 

 wing-coverts orange, the remaining upper wing-coverts brown with 

 light tips ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills edged with 

 green on the outer webs ; greater under wing- coverts and inner webs 

 of the quills below dull green ; tail green, the inner webs of the 

 lateral tail-feathers towards the base above reddish brown, below 

 golden yellow-brown : bill pale ; feet dusky. Total length about 6*8 

 inches, wing 5*1, tail 2*1, bill 0-7, tarsus 0*45. 



Hdb. Bogota. 



". Ad.sk. (Bogota make.) Sclater Coll. (Type of species.) 



8. Urochroma emmae. 



Urochroma emma?, Berl. Jmirn. f. <>r». l>8i>, p. 202 (Colombia) 

 (descr. nulla). 



(Type.) Green, the underparts lighter, with n yellowish tinge : 



