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tively less of cinnamon-rufous on lateral rectrices, and next to middle 

 pair mostly (sometimes wholly) green. 



Adult male. — Forehead metallic reddish purple, varying to violet; 

 rest of upper parts, including middle pair of rectrices, rather dull 

 metallic green or bronze green; remiges dull brownish slate or 

 dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; outermost rectrix entirely 

 purphsh black, the next with outer web purplish black, inner web 

 cinnamon-rufous; third with most of inner web and basal portion 

 of outer web cinnamon-rufous, the remainder purplish black; 

 fourth purplish black (usually glossed with or passing into dull 

 metallic bronze-green terminally), the outer web edged basally 

 with cinnamon-rufous; a small postocular (sometimes also a rictal) 

 spot of white; chin and throat bright metallic solferino purple, passing 

 into violet or violet-blue posteriorly, the chin and anterior portion of 

 throat more decidedly reddish purple or purplish red; chest grayish 

 white, more decidedly grayish posteriorly; rest of under parts cinna- 

 mon-rufous, paler medially, this overlaid, more or less strongly, by 

 metallic bronze or greenish bronze; under tail-coverts light cinnamon- 

 rufous, sometimes partly white especially at base); femoral tufts 

 white; bill dull black; iris dark brown ; feet grayish brown or dusky ; 

 length (skins), 83-92 (SS); wing, 37-38.5 (37.9); tail, 36-40 (38.4); 

 middle rectrices, 12.5-14 (13.2); exposed culmen, 13.5-16 (15.4). « 



Adult female. — ^Above dull metalhc bronze-green or greenish bronze, 

 still duller on pileum, where becoming dull grayish brown or brownish 

 gray on forehead; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green, the 

 next pair similar but with basal portion of outer web (sometimes of 

 both webs) cinnamon-rufous, the terminal portion sometimes blackish; 

 two outer rectrices (on each side) with basal half, or more, light 

 grayish brown, the inner web tinged with light cinnamon-rufous or 

 partly of that color, the tip broadly light grayish brown, brownish 

 gray, or grayish cinnamon, the subterminal portion (broadly) black; 

 third rectrix similar, but with terminal spot smaller and more cinna- 

 momeous and basal area more decidedly cinnamomeous; auricular 

 region light brownish gray, fading gradually into dull grayish white, 

 pale buffy grayish, or cinnamon-buff on chin and throat; chest dull 

 grayish white; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous (more or less 

 deep), paler medially; femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult 

 male; length (skins), 77-78 (77.7); wing, 41-42 (41.4); tail, 27.5- 

 29.5 (28.5); middle rectrices, 23.5-26 (25); exposed culmen, 16-17 

 (16.6).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but lateral rectrices 

 longer and relatively narrower, with more black on outer webs and 

 less on inner webs. 



a Ten specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



