BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 89-109 (99); wing, 

 52.5-59 (55.7); tail, 36-45.5 (40); culmen, 17.5-20 (19).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic green, duller and more bronzy on 

 pileum (where feathers show more or less of the dusky grayish of 

 basal portion), brighter and more bluish green posteriorly; middle 

 pair of rectrices darker metallic green or bluish green, sometimes 

 passing into blackish terminally; other rectrices glossy blue-black, or 

 black glossed with steel blue (sometimes slightly violaceous), the 

 passing into metallic green basally, two outermost broadly tipped 

 with pale brownish gray or dull grayish white ; remiges dusky brownish 

 slate, faintly glossed with violaceous; malar region, chin, throat, and 

 chest very pale brownish gray; ^ breast and abdomen deeper brown- 

 ish gray, the sides and flanks spotted with metallic green; under tail- 

 coverts, anal region, and femoral tufts white; bill dull black, the 

 mandible sometimes more brownish; iris dark brown; feet grayish 

 brown or dusky; length (skins), 78-101 (92); wing, 50-53.5 (51.9); 

 tail, 29-33 (30.8); culmen, 17.5-21 (18.1).'= 



Immature male. — Above similar to the adult female, but tail as in 

 adult male; chin, throat, and chest sooty grayish, glossed with bronze- 

 green, paler gray feathers, with a terminal spot of metallic yellowish 

 emerald green, indicating the adult plumage, appearing along the 

 median line ; breast and abdomen darker sooty gray, varying to nearly 

 sooty brown, the metallic violet-blue feathers of the adult dress 

 appearing first on anterior or median portions; under tail-coverts as 

 in adult male. 



Colombia (Bogota; Valparaiso, Oftaca, El Libano, Don Amo, Las 

 Nubes, Minca, San Jose, Pueblo Viejo, Chinchicua Valley, San Miguel, 

 Bonda, Palomina, and Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta; Herradura; Buca- 



o Twenty-two specimens. 



^ About no. 9 or no. 10 in tone, but much browner, approaching drab-gray in hue. 



c Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from central Colombia (Bogot^) 



Ten adult males from northeastern Colombia (Santa Marta) 



Two adult males from Panamd, 



Two adult males of T. c. vcnusta from Pananid. 



Ten adult males of T. c. venusta from Costa Kica 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from BogotA 



Eight adult females from Santa Marta 



Three adult females of T. c. vcnusta from Panama 



Ten adult females of T. c. venusta from Costa Rica 



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posed 

 lulmen. 



18.3 

 18.5 

 19.5 

 18.2 

 19.9 



18.7 

 18.9 

 20.8 

 20.8 



