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blue of upper throat and chin; chest, breast (except medially), sides, 

 and flanks metallic bronze or bronze-green, interrupted by grayish 

 margins to the feathers, the basal grayish also showing where feathers 

 are disarranged; median line of breast and abdomen dull grayish 

 white, sometimes tinged with brownish bufly; femoral tufts dull 

 white; under tail-coverts grayish brown, faintly glossed with bronze, 

 centrally, broadly margined with dull whitish; basal half (more or 

 less) of l)ill pale brownish (coral red in life), termmal portion dull 

 blackish; iris dark brown; feet dusk}- length (skins), S9-102 (92); 

 wing, 52.5-59.5 (55.3); tail, 30.5-35.5 (33); culmen, 14.5-18.5 

 (16.6).« 



Adult female. — Above shnilar to the adult male, but pileum dusk}^ 

 brown, the feathers (especially on forehead) sometimes margined 

 with pale rusty brown, and lateral pair of rect rices broadly tipped 

 with brownish gray; a broad black sid^orbital and auricidai- patch 

 and white postocular stripe, as hi adult male; under parts pale 

 brownish gray or dull grayish white, spotted with metallic bronze- 

 green, this predominating latei-ally; median line of l)reast and abdo- 

 men plain dull grayish white or })ale brownish gi'ay; under tail- 

 coverts grayish centrally (the shorter ones bronzy or bronze-green) 

 broadly mai-gined \\ith dull grayish white; maxilla dull black, man- 

 dible pale bro\\mish (reddish in life), witli termhial portion dusky; 

 iris and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 7S-9G (88); wing, 

 49-55 (51.9); tail, 30-33.5 (31.3); culmen, lG-18.5 (17.4).^ 



Young male, — Pattern of coloration as in adult, but no blue on 

 head, and brilliant emerald-green of throat merely indicated; pileum 

 dull dusky greenish, the feathei-s margined with dull tawny, this pre- 

 vailing on occiput; chin and u])})C]' tlu'oat dull grayish white spotted 

 with dusky; lower throat metallic emei-ald-green, the feathers dis- 

 tinctly margined wdth grayish white; prevailing color of rump, super- 

 ficially, dull tawaiy, the upper tail-coverts distinctly margined with 



o Seventeen Rpeeimcns. 



b Fifteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Arizona 



Ten adult males from Mexico 



Six adult males from Guatemala 



FEMALES 



Three adult females from Arizona 



Eight adult females from Mexico 



Four adult females from Guatemala 



Wing. 



59.5 

 50.1 

 53.2 



53.8 

 52.1 

 50.2 



34. 5 

 33.0 

 31.7 



33.2 

 31.1 

 30.4 



E.v- 



posed 



culmen. 



IS. 5 

 17.2 

 15.3 



17.7 

 17.7 

 10.0 



