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greater coverts dusky blackish edged with glaucous green ; remiges 
black, broadly edged on outer webs, on tertials and secondaries 
with glaucous green which changes to a beryl green on primaries. 
Centre pair of tail feathers bice green, brightest on outer webs, remain- 
ing rectrices with outer webs bice green, inner webs blackish. 
First nuptial plumage. Above and below greenish grey; back and 
scapulars heavily washed with bice green ; rump a bluish beryl green ; 
head and neck all around, and under parts washed with glaucous 
green. Median and lesser wing coverts nearly a cobalt blue ; greater 
coverts and outer webs of remiges dark bice green with the extreme 
outer edges between a glaucous and beryl green ; inner webs of wing 
quills black. Tail above dusky with greenish wash ; outer webs of 
rectrices edged with beryl green. Under surface of tail greyish blue 
or greenish, varying in color when seen at dififerent angles. 
Adult nuptial plumage. Similar to the first nuptial, but with the 
glaucous green wash of the under parts replaced by a decided violet 
or bluish wash; the greater wing coverts and remiges with edges of 
outer webs bright nile blue, and the median and lesser wing coverts 
nearer an azure than a cobalt blue. Only about ten per cent, of the 
specimens collected will be in adult nuptial plumage. 
Thr.\upis c.\n.\ c.\na Swainson. 
T[anagra] cana Sw. Ornith. Drawings, PI. XXXVII. 1836. 
This is found with T. c. nesopliihis on the upper Orinoco from above 
the falls, and is there the more common of the two forms. 
Thraupis palm arum melanoptera (Sclater). 
Tanagra melanoptera Scl., P. Z. S. 1856. p. 235. 
Tanagra palmarum melanoptera Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 20. 
The Azulejo ordinario as this species is known to the Venezuelans 
is eciually common and often in company with T. e. nesophilus. 
In fresh birds the eye is seal brown ; bill black ; feet slate grey. 
Specimens from above the falls of Atures' are heavily washed 
with violet both above and below, and the tarsus averages shorter 
than in specimens from Trinidad and points on the middle and lower 
Orinoco. In the American Museum are specimens collected by 
Klages at Ciudad Bolivar, in June. July, August and December, and 
at Maripa on the Caura River in May. 
' Four specimens, two males and two females examined, collected in December. January and March. 
