90 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



of their present wide geographic separation it seems better to treat the 

 two as allied species. 



TOUIT DILECTISSIMA (Sclater and Salvin) : Blue-fronted 

 Parrotlet; Churiquita Frentiazul 



Urochroma dilcctisshna P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1870, (April 1871), p. 788, pi. 47. (South of Merida, Venezuela.) 



Like the preceding species, but with forehead blue. 



Description. — Length 145-155 mm. Adult male, forecrown dull 

 blue ; upper part of lores, extending back to above eye, and short streak 

 below eye red ; cheeks, side of neck, back of crown, hindneck, back, 

 inner secondaries, and inner wing coverts dark green ; rump and upper 

 tail coverts somewhat brighter green ; carpal edge of wing black ; outer 

 wing coverts, including central primary coverts, and outer under wing 

 coverts red ; primaries and outer secondaries black, the primaries, 

 except the outermost, edged with dark green ; tail feathers yellow, with 

 a broad band of black across the end, tipped and edged lightly with 

 dark green ; lower side of cheeks dull orange ; under surface, including 

 under tail coverts, light green; edge of wing and inner under wing 

 coverts bright yellow ; outer under primary coverts, and under surface 

 of wing, except black outer margin of outer primary and tips of all, 

 bluish green. 



Female, like male, but with little or no red in outer wing coverts. 



In the original description of the type, a male collected in the 

 Merida region of Venezuela by Anton Goering, it was noted that the 

 iris was "bright brownish yellow." A female specimen in the British 

 Museum from Trujillo, also taken by Goering, has a notation on the 

 label that the iris was light brown. In dried skins the cere is blackish 

 gray ; basal half of maxilla and mandible neutral gray, the rest, includ- 

 ing the line of the culmen, pale dull orange ; tarsus and toes blackish 

 brown ; claws dull brown at the base, blackish at the tip. 



Measurements. — Males (2 from Darien and Choco), wing 107.8, 

 114.2; tail 40.7, 42.4; culmen from cere 15.0, 15.1 ; tarsus 12.8, 13.5 

 mm. 



Females (3 from Darien, Choco, and western Venezuela), wing 

 107.9-115.0 (110.9), tail 39.5-44.9 (42.3), culmen from cere 13.9-16.0 

 (15.1), tarsus 11.4-12.7 (12.2) mm. 



Known in Panama from the upper Tropical and Subtropical Zones 

 on Cerro Pirre, Darien. 



E. A. Goldman collected a pair at 1 ,600 meters elevation at the head 

 of the Rio Limon on April 20, 1912. On February 6, 1961, I saw 



