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next to middle pair usually glossed, more or less, with bronzy green 

 (sometimes mostly of this color), the outer web edged (except 

 terminally) with cinnamon-rufous, the next pair sometimes also 

 narrowly edged with the same; remiges dark brownish slate or 

 dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; chin and throat bright metallic 

 reddish purple (usually more reddish than solferino), the feathers 

 crossed by a broad subterminal (concealed) bar of dull white, their 

 basal portion dusky gray; chest grayish white, passing into very 

 pale gray on breast and abdomen; sides and flanks darker grayish, 

 tinged (especially the flanks) with pale cinnamon, the sides and 

 sides of breast overlaid by metallic bronze-green; femoral tutts 

 wliite; under tail-coverts white with a central area of pale cinna- 

 mon or cinnamon-bufl" (sometimes partly bronze-green); bill dull 

 black; iris dark brown ; feet dusky; length (skins), 83-96 (90); wing, 

 46.5-50.5 (48.4); tail, 30-35 (31.7); exposed culmen, 16-19 (17.6).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze-green, including middle pair 

 of rectrices, the latter sometimes blackish or dusky terminally; 

 second rectrix (from middle) metallic bronze-green with terminal 

 portion more or less extensively dusky; three outer rectrices, on 

 each side, broadly tipped with white, cinnamon-rufous basally (more 

 or less extensively), the remaining portion purplish or bronzy black 

 with more or less of metallic bronze-green between the blackish sub- 

 terminal and cinnamon-rufous basal areas; chin and throat dull 

 white, the feathers with small mesial streaks or guttate spots of 

 dusky or dusky bronze; chest dull brownish white or buffy grayish 

 white, the breast and abdomen similar but, usually, more decidedly 

 tinged with buffy; sides and flanks light cinnamon or pale cinnamon- 

 rufous; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon or cinnamon-buff (some- 

 times partly grayish) centrally, broadly margined with white; 

 femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 

 83-97 (91); wing, 45. .5-52 (49.9); tail, 27-32.5 (30.5); exposed cul- 

 men, 17-20 (18.6).^ 



