CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS. 
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wing, continuous with the orange wing speculum. Bend of wing 
brown, green, and orange. Distinct collar about neck, green. 
Pileum dirty white, tinged with grayish blue, becoming more 
strongly blue toward occiput. The bases of the feathers are 
orange, this color encroaching more and more on the feathers pos¬ 
teriorly. Feathers under eye, yellow at base, green and blue at 
tip. Occiput blue, the feathers being orange at the base, then 
green, tipped with blue and edged with black. Feathers of throat 
orange, tipped with blue. Basal portion of tail yellow, becoming 
distally deep orange red ; central band, the basal half green, the 
distal blue; tip orange, becoming greenish at the extremity. 
No. 4: In general brighter and browner than no. 3; the pileum 
is clearer white, becoming orange on occiput. Feathers under eyes 
orange, tipped with white. There is very little blue on the hind 
head and neck, but there is a distinct green collar. The rump is 
brighter than in no. 3, becoming orange brown on upper tail 
coverts. 
These are the most distinct color types represented. The main 
differences between the immature and the adult seem to be that the 
former are dull brownish green, brightest and greenest on the rump 
and abdomen, duller on the head, the pileum being suffused with 
gray, and with the primaries entirely green. In life the difference 
between these two types of plumage is very noticeable. The adults 
seen against a background of tropical foliage appear decidedly yel¬ 
low, with the middle third of the wing basally orange, and distally 
yellow, and the wing entirely yellow underneath. The young 
appear green, with only a small patch of orange on the wing. 
When a pair, one of the yellow type of coloration and the other of 
the green, are seen flying together, as they often are, the difference 
is much more striking than in the prepared specimens; so much so, 
in fact, that it is a rather prevalent idea on St. Vincent that there 
are two species of parrots on the island. 
Measurements in Millimeters. 
? 1 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
Of 
Of 
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? 
272 
256 
254 
262 
260 
259 252 
257 
278 
163 
172 
172 
177 
186 
184 180 
195 
172 
1 From Cory, 
Birds W. 
I., p. 
185, 1889. 
