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KEY TO THE SPECIES OF UROOHEOMA. 



a. Scapulars green (like general color of upper parts). 

 6. Rectrices 'without red or purple (more or less yellowish, in part), 

 c. Head entirely green; under wing-coverts green. 

 d. Wing-coverts brown with paler tips, the distal greater coverts orange. (Cen- 

 tral Colombia.) Urochroma stlctoptera (extralimital).a 



dd. Wing-coverts, including distal greater coverts, green with black centers. 



(Central Colombia.1 TTrochroma emms (extralimital).& 



cc. Head partly blue or red; under wing-coverts red and yellow. 

 d. Forehead (broadly) dull blue. (Venezuela to eastern Panama.) 



Urochroma dilectissima (p. 199). 

 dd. Forehead and more or less of crown red. (Eastern Costa Rica.) 



Urochroma costaricensis (p. 200). 

 65. Rectrices purplish red tipped with green. (Trinidad, Venezuela, and 



Guianas to eastern Ecuador and Peru.) Urochroma hu'etii (extralimital). c 



aa. Scapulars brown or black. 

 6. Scapulars dull black or dark sooty brown (also interscapulars, lesser and middle 

 wing-coverts, and rump), 

 c. Greater wing-coverts greenish yellow tipped with dull blue. (Venezuela and 

 Trinidad.) Urochroma batavica (extralimital). <* 



" Urochroma stictoptera Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 112, pi. 11 (interior 

 of Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 357 

 (Bogota). — Psittacula stictoptera Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 2, 1868, 330. — Euchroura 

 stictoptera Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 358 (Consp. Psitt., p. 198). 



& Urochroma emmse Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 357 (Bogota, Colombia; 

 ex Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1889, 202=nomen nudum). 



* Psittacus huetii Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 83, Feb., 1830, pi. 491 and text (Peru?).— 

 Psittacula hueti Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 619; Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 1868, 684.— 

 Pyrrhulopsis hueti Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 152. — Urochroma hueti 

 Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt., no. 124; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xx, 1891, 355. — Euchroura hueti Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, 360 (Consp. Psitt., 

 p. 200). 



d Psittacus batavica Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., Dec, 1783, 49 ("Batavia"; based on 

 Petit Perruche de Batavia Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 791, fig. 1). — P[sittacula] batavica 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 423. — Psittacula batavica L^otaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 

 331. — [Urochroma] batavica Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 167, no. 8359. — Psittacus (cin- 

 gulatus) Scopoli, Delic. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., ii, 1786, 86 ("Luzon"; based on La 

 Petite Perruche de I'Isle de Lucon Sonnerat, Voy.'Nouv. Guin6e, p. 78, pi. 41). — Psit- 

 tacula cingulata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Psittaci, 1864, 69; Finsch, Die Papag., ii, 

 1868, 678. — [Urochroma] cingulata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 115. — 

 Urochroma cingulata Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 351. — Eucinetus 

 cingulatus 'Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1881, pi 24, fig. 2. — Euchroura cingulata Reiche- 

 now, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 360 (Consp. Psitt., p. 200). — [Psittacus] melanopterus 

 (not of Scopoli) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 350. — Psittacus micropterus Kuhl, Consp. 

 Psitt., 1820, 67 ("Lucon"; based on Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin^e, pi. 41). — Loriculus 

 (Cyclopsittal) micropterus von Martius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, 22. — Psittacula melanop- 

 tera Stephens, Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 142; Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 

 197. — Ps[ittacula]melanoptera Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 619. — [Pyrrhulopsis] melanop- 

 terus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 152. — Urochroma melanoptera Bonaparte, 

 Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt., no. 129; Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 356. 



