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black, more or less distinctly margined wdth grayish white; femoral 

 tufts and very inconspicuous (mostly concealed) tuft between sides 

 and upper rump grayish wliite; bill black; iris dark brown; feet 

 dusky; length (skins)V 113-127 (120); wing, 73.5-81 (77.2); tail, 

 45-51.5 (47.5); culmen, 15-19 (17.9).« 



Adult female. — Above similar to the adult male, but the green 

 slightly more bronzy, especially on pileum; rufous-chestnut of 

 remiges and greater wing-coverts more restricted, the dusky pur- 

 plish or bronzy brown proportionally more extended ; lateral rectrices 

 tipped, more or less broadly, with brownish gray, all the rectrices 

 except middle pair narrowly edged with the same; under parts deep 

 sooty brown (dark broccoH or hair brown), the chest usually tinged 

 with buffy brown or cinnamon, the sides and flanks glossed or 

 spotted with metallic green, the breast sometimes faintly glossed 

 with bluish green or greenish blue, the tliroat often with an admix- 

 ture of metallic reddisli purple feathers; femoral tufts white, as in 

 adult male; under tail-coverts grayish dusky or sooty, more or less 

 distinctly margined with whitish; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 

 (skins), '97-113 (109); wing, 64-67.5 (66.2); tail, 40-44 (41.7); 

 culmen, 15.5-18.5 (16.7).^ 



Highlands of southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; 

 Coatepec; Jico; Cordova; Orizaba; Mirador; Cofre de Perote), Mexico 

 ("near City of Mexico"), Guerrero (Chilpancingo; Omilteme), Oaxaca 

 (La Parada; Tonaguia; Totontepec; Mount Zempoaltepec; near 

 Oaxaca City) and Chiapas (San Cristobal) and Guatemala (Santa 

 Maria and San Martin, Quezaltenango; El Rincon, San Marcos; 

 Calderas, Volcan de Fuego; Volcan de Agua; Chilasco; Cob^n; 

 Cajabon; Guatemala City; above Tecpam). 



0[rnismya] rhami Lesson, Rev. ZooL, i, 1838, 315 (Mexico). 

 Ornysmia rhami Delattre and Lesson, Rev. ZooL, ii, 1839, 13. 

 M[ellisuga'\ rhami Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 112. 

 [Lampornis] rhami Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72 (Mexico). 

 [Delattria] rhami Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, 1854, 353. 



« Twenty-three specimens. 



b Nine specimens. 



Locality. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Seven adult males Iroin State of Vera (.'riiz 



Seven adult males from State of Oaxaca 



Nine adult males from State of Chiapas (1) and Guatemala (8). 



Five adult females from southern Mexico (Vera Cruz and Oaxaca). 

 Four adult females from Guatemala 



17.3 

 17.9 

 18.2 



16.5 

 16.9 



