620 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



purplish red), hindneck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump 

 metallic bronze-green, the upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rec- 

 trices similar but usually less bronzy, or more bluish, green; tail 

 (except middle pair of rectrices) dark grayish, faintly glossed with 

 greenish bronze, the rectrices blackish terminally and medially; 

 remiges brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish ; chest 

 pale brownish gray or dull grayish white, the feathers darker brown- 

 ish gray beneath surface; rest of under parts deeper grajdsh, strongly 

 glossed with metallic bronze-green laterally, the feathers more or less 

 distinctly margined with paler grayish; femoral tufts and conspicuous 

 tuft on each side of rump white; under tail-coverts brownish gray 

 glossed with bronze-green or greenish bronze (especially on shorter 

 coverts) and broadly margined with pale gray or grayish white; bill 

 dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 90-102 (96); 

 wing, 48.5-51 (49.7); tail, 30.5-32.5 (31.3); middle rectrices, 23.5- 

 25.5 (24.4); exposed culmen, 17.5-20 (18.2).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, duller on 

 pileum, the forehead sometimes dull grayish bro^VIl; middle pair of 

 rectrices metallic green or bronze-green, sometimes dusky terminally, 

 the next pair similar, but with terminal portion (broadly) blackish; 

 third pair similar to second, but more extensively blackish terminally 

 and narrowly tipped with white; two outer pairs with basal half 

 (more or less) brownish gray, the tip pale bro^vnish gray or dull 

 grayish white (broader on outermost rectrix), the intermediate (sub- 

 terminal) portion black; remiges brownish slate or dusky, faintly 

 glossed with purplish; chin and throat pale brownish gray or dull 

 grayish white, the center of throat usually with an admixture of 

 metallic red or purplish red feathers, sometimes wdth a considerable 

 patch of metalhc reddish; the lower throat, at least, with mesial 

 guttate spots or broad streaks of dusky grayish brown or dull bronz}"; 

 rest of under parts as in the adult male, but sHghtly paler and less 

 extensively glossed with metallic greenish; bill, etc., as in adult 

 male; length (skins), 84-99 (91); wing, 48-51 (49.6); tail, 25-28.5 

 (27.2); exposed culmen, 17-22 (18.8).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but tail ' rounded, 

 lateral rectrices with dark subterminal portion duller blackish and 

 less sharply contrasted with dull grayish of basal portion, feathers of 

 upper parts veiy narrowly and indistinctly margined "with pale 

 buffy grayish and (at least older individuals) mth metallic purplish 

 red feathers on crown as well as on throat. 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female, but feathers of upper 

 parts narrowl}'" margined with pale brownish or dull buffy and throat 

 without metallic red feathers. 



o Ten epecimens. 



