  We investigate the decays eta, eta-prime --> pi^+ pi^- gamma up to
next-to-leading order in the framework of the combined 1/N_c and chiral
expansions. Counter terms of unnatural parity at next-to-leading order with
unknown couplings are important to acommodate the results both to the
experimental decay width and the photon spectrum. The presence of these
coefficients does not allow for a determination of the number of colors from
these decays.
