13IKDS OF NOKTII AND MIDDLE AMEIUCA. 



577 



with white; bill, etc., as in adult male; lenfi;th (skins), 94-109 (100); 

 win<,^ G2-70 (65.2); tail, 31-37 (34.1); ciilmcn, 17.5-22 (19).« 



Immature male. — Essentially like atlult male but coloration (lullcr; 

 middle rectrices with only basal ))ortion white, the terminal liait" or 

 more being dusky dull metallic greenish or bronzy broadly ti|)j)ed 

 with black; rictal region (more or less extensively) light buil'y 

 brown or cinnamon.^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba) and Oaxaca 

 (Lana, Choapam) and southward through Guatemala (Guatemala 

 City; Choctiim; near Peten), British Honduras (Belize; forest near 

 Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (San Pedro), Nicaragua (Greytown; 

 Rio San Juan; Chontales), Costa Rica (San Pedro; Guapiles; Bonilla; 

 El Hogiir; Turrialba; Carrillo; La Vijagua; El General; Bebedero; 

 Pozo del Pital; Pozo Aziil de Pirris; Boruca), Panama (Divala; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui; Cordillera de Tole; Cordillera del Chucu; Santiago 

 de Veragua; Lion Hill; Paraiso), Colombia (Don Diego, Sierra Nevada, 

 Cacagualito, Bonda, Don Anio, and Minca, Santa Marta; Bogota; 



^ Younger specimens have the dark dull metallic blue of throat and chest con- 

 fined to a median stripe, margined along each side by a narrower, ill-defined stripe 

 of pale brownish, and there is a stripe of pale buff or cinnamon along middle of back 

 and rump. 



(^ Florisuga mellivorn tobacjensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 

 1910, 55 (Tobago; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

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