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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Secondaries ami outer vanes of prima- 

 ries near base, dark blue ; primaries with 

 outer vanes along distal half and at tips 

 edged with dark green; inner webs of 

 primaries brown. 



Exposed under surface of primaries 

 and secondaries dull blue. 



Lower parts, back to crissum, dingy 

 blue with a dull greenish wash; blue 

 brightest on abdomen, and contrasting 

 abruptly with green of crissnm. 



Crissuin rich dark green. 



Secondaries and outer vanes of inner 

 primaries dark blue ; rest of outer vanes 

 and tips of primaries dark green ; inner 

 webs of primaries brown. 



Exposed under surface of primaries 

 and secondaries dull bluish green. 



Lower parts, back to crissum, dull 

 green, richest on abdomen and shading 

 insensibly into color of crissum. 



Crissum brighter green. 



Description of Psittacula insularis, 9 ad., 

 Maria Madre, May, 1897. 



Description of Psittacula cyanopyga, 9 ad., 

 from Tepic, Mexico, April, 1S97. 



Entire dorsal surface dingy green; Dorsal surface dark green; brightest 



brightest on sides of head, forehead, on forehead, rump, and upper tail coverts, 



rump, and upper tail coverts, with a dull with an olive shade on middle of back 



bluish shade on middle of back and and wings. 

 wings. 



Lower surface dull green, back to Lower surface nearly uniform light 



crissum; the latter brighter green. green, with a yellowish shade; crissum 



nearly the same. 



Areruye measurements of Psitlacnla insularis and P. cyanopyya. 



Coccyzus minor (Gmel.) Mangrove Cuckoo. 



This bird is rather common among the mangroves and other trees 

 bordering the salt lagoons near San Bias. A single specimen was 

 taken on May 8 near the shore of Maria Madre, bnt no others were 

 seen, and it probably occurs there only as a straggler. 



Trogon ambiguus goldmani Nelson. Goldman's Trogon. 



Trogon ambiguus Grayson Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, p. 272, 1871; Lawr., 



Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 290, 1874 (part). 

 Trogon ambiyuiis goldmani Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, p. 8, 1898. 



Goldman's trogon was common in the more heavily wooded parts of 

 Maria Madre and Maria Magdalena, and occurs no doubt on the less 

 heavily wooded Cleofa. On .Maria Madre they were found from the coast 

 up nearly to the summit in suitable timber and especially along the sides 

 and bottoms of heavily wooded canyons. Their habits were similar 

 to those of the mainland bird. They sit quietly for a time on a branch 



