BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



529 



CYANOPHAIA BICOLOR (Gmelin). 



WAGLER'S WOOD-NYMPH. 



Adult male. — Head, all round (including forehead, crown, loral and 

 malar regions, chin, and upper throat), dark metalUc violet-blue (hya- 

 cinth blue), the posterior portion of crown more greenish blue, passing 

 into bluish green on occiput, tliis into bronze-green on liindneck, back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and upper rump, the lower rump and shorter 

 upper tail-coverts more bluish green, the longer upper tail-coverts 

 dark greenish steel blue; tail wholly deep or dark steel blue; remiges 

 glossy bluish black, or black glossed with violet-blue; lower throat 

 and chest bright metalhc bluish green, passing into rather dark 

 bronze-green or more golden green on rest of under parts; femoral 

 tufts (small) pale gray or grayish white; maxilla dull black, mandible 

 dull black for terminal half (more or less), pale brownish (pinkish or 

 reddish in life?) basally; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 

 95-108 (102); wing, 58-62.5 (60.1); tail, 34.5-42.5 (38.1); culmen, 

 15.5-18.5 (17). « 



Adult female. — Pileuni metalhc green (varying from bluish green to 

 slightly bronzy green) ; hindneck, upper back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts golden bronze or golden green, passing through more greenish 

 bronze on lower back and rump into golden green on upper tail- 

 coverts; middle pair of rectrices metalhc bronze, passing into bluish 

 green or greenish blue terminally; second, tliird, and fourth pairs of 

 rectrices dark greenish steel blue, metalhc bronze basally, the tliird 

 slightly, the fourth broadly, tipped with pale brownish gray; fifth 

 (outermost) pair similar to fourth but pale grayish tip still broader 

 and basal portion brownish gray instead of bronzy; remiges dusky 

 slate glossed with violet or violet-blue; loral and auricular regions 

 dusky; malar region and under parts pale brownish gray, passing into 

 golden green or bronze on sides and flanks; bill, etc., as in adult male, 

 but mandible wholly dusky; length (sldns), 91-108 (101); wing, 

 55.5-58 (56.7); tail, 32.5-38 (35.6); culmen, 17-18 (17.7).^ 



a Fourteen specimens. 

 & Eight specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult malcc; from Dominica 



Two adult malca from Martinique 



Two adult malec said to be from Brazil (but probably not) 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Dominica 



One adult female from Martinique 



One adult female said to be from Brazil 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



16.6 



18 



17.7 



17.6 

 18.5 



81255°— Bull. 50—11- 



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