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66. Primary coverts green or blue (no red whatever on wing). 

 c. Bill and feet blackish; primary coverts green. .Amazona agills, young (p. 262). 

 cc. Bill and feet pale brownish or buffy ; primary coverts blue. 

 d. Forehead red (no white on head). {Amazona vittata.) 

 e. Larger (adult male averaging: Wing, 189.9; tail, 102.9; culmen, 27.9; tarsus, 

 21.8; outer anterior toe, 28.4). (Porto Rico.) 



Amazona vittata vittata (p. 263). 

 . ee. Smaller (adult male averaging: Wing, 172.5; tail, 95.5; culmen, 26.7; 

 tarsus, 20; anterior toe, 25.2). (Culebra Island .) 



Amazona vittata gracilipes (p. 265). 

 dd. Forehead white, 

 e. White of forehead not involving crown; suborbital and rictal regions green. 

 /. Throat green; lower abdomen purplish red. (Haiti.) 



Amazona ventralis (p. 265). 

 ff. Throat pale wine red (the feathers margined with green); no red on 



abdomen. (Jamaica.) ....Amazona collaria (p. 267). 



ee. White of forehead extended over crown; suborbital and rictal regions 

 pinkish red or pink and white. {Amazona leucocephala.) ■ 

 f. Abdomen with a considerable area of purplish red; red of throat, etc., 

 deeper (especially that on cheeks), and less extended posteriorly. 

 g. General color parrot green; posterior crown and occiput more bluish 

 green. 

 h. Red of throat, etc., slightly paler, less extended posteriorly; 

 purplish red of abdomen more restricted; smaller (wing 184- 

 195.5, tail 99-115 mm.). (Cuba.) 



Amazona leucocephala leucocephala (p. 269). 

 Kh. Red of throat, etc., deeper, more extended posteriorly; purplish 

 red of abdomen more extended, often occupying whole of abdom- 

 inal region and lower breast; larger (wing 187-205, tail 96-119.5 

 mm.). (Isle of Pines, near Cuba.) 



Amazona leucocephala palmamm (p. 272.) 

 gg. General color yellowish green, including posterior crown and occi- 

 put. (Cayman Islands, near Cuba.) 



Amazona leucocephala caymanensis (p. 272.) 



ff. Abdomen with much less of purplish red, usually a mere trace, often 



with none; red of throat, etc., paler (especially on cheeks), and 



extended to sides of neck and upper chest; largest form (wing 196- 



220, tail 113-131 mm.). (Bahamas.) 



Amazona leucocephala bahamensis (p. 273). 



AMAZONA IMPERIALIS Richmond. 



IMPERIAL PARROT. 



Adult male. — Feathers of head dark sooty brown, or dark sepia, 

 basally, those of forehead tipped with light reddish brown, those of 

 crown tipped (more broadly) with light bluish green (malachite), 

 the nape uniform dull parrot green, narrowly margined at tip with 

 black; feathers of cheeks tipped with light brownish red, those of the 

 auricular region and posterior portion of malar region (hinder cheeks) 

 with pale brownish red and pale bluish green; neck black, forming a 

 conspicuous collar, the feathers barred subterminally (mostly beneath 

 surface though exposed on foreneck) with green and dark violet-blue 



