BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 603 



adult female possibly not distinguishable from that of S. flammula, 

 but apparently less suffused with pale vinaceous-cinnamon beneath, 

 tips to lateral rectrices more whitish, and basal portion of lateral 

 rectrices less extensively cinnamon-rufous. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green, darker and duller on 

 pileum; middle pair of rectrices with outer web bronze-green, the 

 inner web dusky famtly glossed wdth bronze-green (sometimes mostly 

 bronze-green), both webs broadly edged, except terminally, with 

 cinnamon-rufous; other rectrices -purplish black, the two (on each 

 side) next to middle pair broadly edged (except terminally) with 

 cmnamon-rufous,'* the two outermost (sometimes second also) with 

 a spot of same on terminal portion of inner web; remiges and pri- 

 mary coverts purpUsh dusky or dull brownish slate fainth' glossed 

 with purpHsh, the inner secondaries glossed with bronze-green; lores 

 dark rusty or chestnut; gorget dull metallic graAdsh purple or helio- 

 trope purple, changing to dull grayish green (or the latter changing 

 to dull purphsh), the feathers crossed beneath surface wdth a broad 

 bar of cinnamon-buff, separated from the metalHc tip by a narrow 

 bar of dusky, the base dusky gray; chest dull white tinged wdth 

 cmnamon-buffy, the median portion of breast and abdomen similar 

 but darker (more gra\ash) ; sides and flanks similar but more suffused 

 with pale rusty or cmnamon and (especially on sides of breast) inter- 

 mixed with metallic bronze-green; under tail-coverts cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-buff margined with pale buff or buffy whitish; bill dull 

 black, the mandible paler basally; iris dark brown; feet grayish 

 brown or dusky; length (skins), 67-76 (72); ^^•ing, .39.5-42 (40.3); 

 tail, 27-28.5 (27.7); exposed culmen, 11.5-12.5 (12.1).^ 



Adult females — Similar in coloration of upper parts to the adult 

 male, but both webs of middle rectrices metallic bronze-green, the 

 next to middle pair bronze-green, passing into black terminally, the 

 outer web broadly edged for most of its length wdth cinnamon-rufous; 

 outermost rectrix very broadly tipped with white (the white some- 

 times tinged with cinnamon-rufous or buffy), the subterminal portion 



(e ^xisively) black, passmg into grayish browTi basally, the basal 



portion of shaft usually rufescent; second rectrix (from outside) 

 similar, but with basal half (more or less) of inner web cinnamon- 

 rufous, the corresponding part of outer web metalUc bronze-green; 

 tliird rectrix similar to second, but with basal half (more or less) of 

 outer w^eb broadly edged with cinnamon-rufous; chin and throat dull 



^The second and third (from outside) have the inner web also similarly edged. 



b Five specimens. 



c It is not absolutely certain that the females on which this description is based 

 are of this species. They agree, however, A\-ith Sahan's description, and certainly 

 are different in the coloration of the tail from an equal number of undoubted females 

 of S. flammula. 



