BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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A[mazona] salvini Ridgway, Condor, vii, 1905, 155, 156, in text (Pigres and Bonilla, 



Costa Rica). 

 Amazona autumnalis salvini Careikeb, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 487 (Bonilla, 



Pigres, Guayabal, Guapiles, and El PozodeTerraba, Costa Rica; crit.; habits). 



AMAZONA FARINOSA INORNATA (Salvadori). 



PLAIN-COLORED PAHB.OT. 



Similar to A.f.farinosa a but averaging smaller, and without any 

 yellow on pileum. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color parrot green, including whole 

 head and neck, the hindneck, back, and scapulars more grayish green, 

 the under parts lighter and often more yellowish green, the occiput 

 or nape frequently suffused with a darker, more bluish or dull vio- 

 laceous hue ; feathers of pileum, hindneck, and upper back margined 

 terminally with blackish, these blackish margins much broader and 

 always conspicuous on lower hindneck, sometimes obsolete elsewhere; 

 tail deep parrot green for proximal half or more, the distal half 

 (approximately) much lighter and more yellowish green, especially 

 on inner webs, which are dark green proximally; outer webs of three 

 distal secondaries clear poppy red or dull spectrum red except termi- 

 nally, where dark blue or bluish black, sometimes with more or less of 

 green between the red and blue; distal half (more or less) of primaries 

 black, passing into bluish black proximally; carpo-metacarpal edge 

 of wing with more or less of red; maxilla horn color or dusky, usually 

 with the lower basal portion paler, sometimes, together with mandi- 

 ble, dull ivory-yellowish or brownish buffy; iris yellow to orange-red; 

 bare orbital space whitish (in life) ; legs and feet horn color or dusky 

 (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— -Length (skins), 380-425 (393); wing, 233-268 

 (246.7); tail, 121.5-149 (134.8); culmen, 37-41 (39.8); tarsus, 26.5- 

 29.5 (28.1); outer anterior toe, 34.5-39.5 (37.4). 6 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 380; wing, 240-255 (247.5); tail, 

 127.5-139 (133.2); culmen, 35-38.5 (36.7); tarsus, 26; outer anterior 

 toe, 35.5-36 (35.7). ° 



Intergradation between this form and A.f.farinosa on the one hand andA.f. viren- 

 ticeps on the other is complete, the latter also grading gradually into A-f. guatemalse. 



