156 BULLETIN 50,. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ARATINGA RUBRITORQU1S (Sclater). 

 RED-THROATED PAROQUET. 



Adults (sexes alike).— Whole throat and foreneck, together with 

 lower portion of malar region, red or reddish orange (grenadine red 

 to orange chrome), the feathers yellow "beneath surface; rest of 

 plumage clear light parrot green above, becoming brighter and more 

 yellowish green (deeper than apple green) on sides of head, the 

 primaries and primary coverts slightly more bluish green; primaries, 

 rectrices, etc., with black shafts, the first with tip of inner webs nar- 

 rowly margined with blackish ; a few red or reddish orange feathers on 

 sides of neck and across hindneck, forming indication of a broken 

 collar; under parts, posterior to red or orange of foreneck, clear yel- 

 lowish apple green, passing into apple green on under tail-coverts; 

 smaller under wing-coverts wholly clear apple green, the under 

 primary coverts and under surface of remiges and rectrices light 

 yellowish olive or deep olive-yellowish; bill light brownish buffy; 

 naked orbital space pale brownish (whitish or pale flesh color in 

 life?); legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but with the red (or reddish 

 orange) and yellow of throat, foreneck, etc., replaced by light green, 

 the green of under parts of body slightly darker or duller. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 250-265 (257); wing, 156-164 (161.4); 

 tail, 115-124.5 (120.7); culmen, 24.5-26 (25.1); tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); 

 outer anterior toe, 20.5-21.5 (21).° 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 257-275 (264); wing, 154-162 (159); 

 tail, 112-119.5 (116.8); culmen, 23-24.5 (23.7); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 (17); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-22 (21). 6 



Guatemala (Iguana; Gualan) and Salvad6r (Volcan de San Miguel 

 to Nicaragua (San Rafael del Norte; Matagalpa). 6 



Conurus rubritorquis Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886 (pt. iv, April 1, 1887), 



539, pi. 56 ("South America or West Indies "; coll. Zool. Soc. Lond.).— Sal vni 



and Godman, Ibis, 1892, 328 (centr. Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 



1897, 573 (Volcan de San Miguel, Salvador; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 



[Conurus] rubritorquis Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 11. 



3 Four specimens. 

 b Three specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Cul- 

 men. 



Tarsus. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Guatemala 



One adult male from Nicaragua 



Two adult females from Guatemala (tarsus and toe of only one 



measured) 



One adult female from Nicaragua 



163.2 

 156 



157.5 

 162 



121.2 

 119.5 



119.2 

 112 



25.2 

 25 



23.7 

 23.5 



17 

 16.5 



17.5 

 16.5 



21 

 21 



22 

 20 



« Not yet recorded from Honduras. 



