BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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lores pale cinnamon or dull whitish; malar region dull white to pale 

 hrownish gray or pale brown, forming a more or less conspicuous 

 stripe; suborbital and auricular regions and patch on upper portion 

 of side of neck rich dark metallic violet-blue or bluish violet ; general 

 color of under parts dull grayish brown, the feathers usually more 

 or less distinctly edged or margined with paler (forming a somewhat 

 streaked appearance), the throat mostly (sometimes wholly) covered 

 by a patch of metallic green, this often passing at lower extremity 

 into blue or violet-blue; under tail-coverts cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 buff, with a subbasai or central spot of light grayish brown or olive; 

 femoral tufts (inconspicuous) dull white, tinged with cinnamon; bill 

 dull black, the mandible somewhat more brownish, at least basally; 

 iris dark brown; feet dusk}' grayish brown. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but feathers of back, scapulars, hind- 

 neck and pileuin broadly tipped or terminally margined with rusty 

 brown or dull cinnamon, wing-coverts narrowly tipped with the same, 

 and (in earlier stage) without any blue on side of head or neck." 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 99-114 (106); wing, 67.5-76.5 (71.9); 

 tail, 36.5-47 (41.6); culmen, 16-20 (17.5).'' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 93-116 (105); wing, 66-76 (69.3); 

 tail, 37-45 (40); culmen, 16-lS (16. 9). '^ 



Guatemala (Coban, Vera Paz), British Honduras (forest near 

 Manatee Lagoon) and southward through Honduras (San Pedro), 

 Nicaragua (Chontales), Costa Rica (Escazii; San Pedro de Mojon; 

 Bonilla; Miravalles; Boruca), Panama (Calovevera, Veragua), Colom- 

 bia (Bogota; Bonda and Minca, Santa Marta; Rio Dagua; Bucara- 



« In what are apparently younger birds there is no metallic blue whatever on sides 

 of neck, the auricular region being dusky (nonmetallic) ; in apparently older indi- 

 viduals there is a patch of metallic violet-blue on upper side of neck, immediately 

 behind the auricular region. 



b Twenty-three specimens. 



c Eleven specimens. 



