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BULLETIN 50; UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult fernale. — Above, including four middle rectrices, metallic 

 bronze, bronze-green, or golden green, the pileum duller (sometimes 

 dull grayish brown anteriorly) ; three outer rectrices (on each side) with 

 basal half (more or less) bronze-green, then black, the tip brownish 

 gray or grayish brown, this broadest on outermost rectrix, much 

 smaller on tliird ; "■ remiges as in adult male ; a postocular streak of 

 white and below this a dusky auricular area; under parts brown- 

 ish gray or buffy grayish, glossed laterally with metallic bronze or 

 bronze-green, the feathers of chin and tliroat margined with paler or 

 with dull grayish white, producmg a squamate appearance; femoral 

 and anal tufts white; under tail-coverts brownish gray (sometimes 

 glossed with bronze-green) margined with pale brownish gray or 

 dull wliitish ; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 110-125 (119); 

 wing, 66.5-70.5 (68.7); tail, 37.5-41.5 (39.4) ; culmen, 27-30.5 (29.1).^ 



Immature male. — Intermediate in coloration between the adult 

 male and adult female, the crown partly violet, the throat only 

 partly green, and chest slightly intermixed with black, the tail 

 exactly intermediate, both in form and color. 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female, but feathers of upper 

 parts narrowly margined terminally with pale grayish buffy and 

 under parts slightly darker and suffused, more or less, with pale 

 brownish buffy. 



Southern Arizona (Chiracahua, Santa Rita, Huachuca, Santa 

 Catalina, and San Luis Mountains; Mount Graham; Camp Grant; 

 Carr's Caiion) and southward tlu-ough higlilands of Mexico, in States 

 of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas (Miquihuana; Boque Negro), San Luis 

 Potosi (Sierra San Luis Potosi), Guanajuato, Durango (Rancho 

 Baillon; Arroyo del Buey), Jalisco (Sierra de Bolaiios; Sierra de 

 Valparaiso; Sierra de Nayarit), Michoacan (Patzcuaro; Mount 



a Sometimes the fourth rectrix also has a small grayish terminal spot, the subter- 

 minal portion being blackish. 

 6 Fourteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from southern Arizona 



Ten adult males from Vera Cruz and Puebia 



Five adult males from Oaxaca 



Six adult males from Guatemala 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from southern Arizona 



Two adult females from Mexico and Morelos 



Two adult females from Oaxaca 



One adult female from Guatemala 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



27.2 

 20.7 

 27 

 29.4 



29.7 

 29.1 



