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and upper rump bright metallic green or bluish green, usually inter- 

 mixed with violet-blue, passing into rich violet-blue or bluish violet 

 on upper margin of back and on lower rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 middle rectrices rather dark metallic bluish green to violet-blue, 

 abruptly tipped with black, the inner web of second and third rec- 

 trices (from middle) wholly black; lateral rectrices extensively white 

 terminally, the white on third (fi'om outside) occupying about ter- 

 minal third to terminal half (the white area usually smaller on inner 

 than on outer web), the outermost rectrix with whole of the exposed 

 portion white, the black bemg confined to a small area, concealed by 

 under tail-coverts; wings (except anterior lesser coverts) uniform 

 black, the longer primaries edged with white basally; sides of head, 

 chin, throat, chest, and upper breast dull black or sooty black, the 

 lower chest and upper breast usually glossed, more or less, with 

 violet-blue, especially laterally; rest of under parts bright pure reddish 

 orange or orange-red (flame scarlet to between flame scarlet and 

 Saturn red), the tibial and tarsal feathers sooty black; bill (in dried 

 sldns) pale grayish yellow or glaucous-whitish, sometimes darker 

 (grayish) on mandible and lower basal portion of maxilla; feet horn 

 color (in dried skins); length (skins), 263-298 (282); wing, 142-153 

 (146.5); tail, 147-172.5 (155.9); culmen, 21.5-25 (23.4); tarsus, 

 12.5-15 (14.2); inner anterior toe, 13-16 (14.4).« 



Adult female. — Above plain slate color or dark slate-gray, the four 

 middle rectrices darker (blackish slate or sooty slate), narrowly tipped 

 with black; wings black, the wing-coverts and secondaries very nar- 

 rowly barred with white (these narrow white transverse lines many 

 times narrower than the black interspaces), the longer primaries 

 edged with white basally and, usually, specked or dotted with white 

 distally or sub terminally ; lateral rectrices black, tipped with white 

 (the white tip from about 2-9 mm. wide), the remaining portion 

 narrowly barred with white (white bars several times narrower than 

 the black interspaces) for distal portion and on greater part of outer 

 web; lores and orbital region blackish; sides of head and neck, chin, 

 throat, chest, whole breast, sides, and flanks unifomi slate-gray or 

 grayish slate, gradually darkening into the color of pileum, etc., 

 somewhat paler along posterior margin, where sometimes faintly 

 barred mth still paler grayish and tipped with orange-pinkish; 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts reddish orange (clear 

 orange-chrome to saturn red or light flame scarlet), the flanks more 

 or less strongly tinged or intermixed with the same, the feathers of 

 tibia and tarsus dark sooty slate; maxilla black, with lower basal 

 portion, together with mandible, grayish (in dried skins); feet as in 



a Eighteen specimens. 

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