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DROCHROMA DILECTISSIMA Sclater and Salvia. 



BLUE-FRONTED PARROTLET. 



Adult male. — General color bright parrot green, lighter .and more 

 yellowish green on under parts; forehead and crown greenish blue 

 (verditer blue); gradually passing into green of hindneck, etc.; a 

 supraloral streak of dull vermilion or poppy red, and another of same 

 color along lower edge of bare orbital space ; chin and lower portion 

 of malar region wax yellow or dull gamboge yellow; innermost 

 anterior lesser wing-coverts black; lower or outermost lesser middle, 

 and greater wing-coverts, together with alula and innermost primary 

 coverts, pure poppy red (the greater coverts narrowly tipped with 

 yellow), forming a very conspicuous elongated patch on wing; outer- 

 most primary coverts, secondaries (except proximal ones), and. pri- 

 maries black, the last (except outermost and proximal quills) edged 

 (rather broadly) with bluish green; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 rich chrome yellow, the coverts along margin of wing red, slightly 

 intermixed with yellow; under primary coverts dusky, tipped with 

 green or yellowish, the outermost ones mostly dull bluish green; under 

 surface of remiges bluish green (deep malachite), the primaries with 

 a broad stripe of dusky next to shaft; tail clear canary yellow on 

 inner webs, light yellowish green or greenish yellow edged with green 

 on outer webs, and crossed by a terminal or subterminal band of 

 black (narrow and subterminal, the tip being green, on lateral rectrices, 

 very broad and terminal, or with only a very narrow green tip, on 

 middle rectrices), this margined anteriorly on outer webs with green; 

 bill pale brownish buffy, the basal portion horn color; feet horn 

 color (in dried skins); length (skin), 142; wing, 112; tail, 42; cul- 

 men (chord), 15.5; tarsus, 12; outer anterior toe, 16.° 



K Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without red on outer 

 surface of the wing, the coverts being wholly green, the black edge 

 to humeral region continued to and involving the bend; alulae black, 

 suffused with bluish green, primary coverts all black with outer 

 webs partly bluish green, outer webs of distal secondaries mostly 

 green, and outer webs of primaries wholly green; black tail-band 

 much restricted, wanting on outermost rectrix, reduced to a spot 

 on each web on middle rectrices; length (skin), 138; wing, 107; tail, 

 42; culmen, 15; tarsus, 10; outer anterior toe, 15.° 



Eastern Panama (near head of Rio Limon, Mt. Pirri, 5,200 ft.); 

 Venezuela (Merida; Esquuque, Trujillo). 



Urochroma dilectissima Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870 (pub. 



April, 1871), 788, pi. 47 (south of Merida, Venezuela; coll. P. L. Sclater).— 



Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 356 (Merida and Esquuque, 



Trujillo, Venezuela). 

 [Urochroma] dilectissima Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr, 1873, 115. 

 Euchroura dilectissima Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., Oct., 1881, 361 (monogr.); 



Consp. Psitt., 1882, 201); Vogelbild., 1883, Naehtr., 116. 



° One specimen, from Mt. Pirri, eastern Panama. 



