BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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rectrix) on greater part of outer web, a broad terminal area immacu- 

 late, the remainder of wliite portion, except middle portion of outer 

 web of outermost rectrix, more or less broadly and irregularly barred 

 with blackish or dark slaty, the basal portion of these rectrices uni- 

 formly of the latter color; loral and suborbital regions dark slaty or 

 blackish; auricular region crossed obliquely by a broad bar of pale 

 brownish buff or brownish white antl tipped by an oblique bar of 

 black; a broad brownish white orbital ring, interrupted on upper and 

 lower eyelids; malar region, chin, and throat brownish slate to grayish 

 brown (hair brown), passing into brown (like color of back) on chest; 

 breast much paler brown, fading posteriorly into brownish white, 

 and crossed anteriorly (immediately behind brown jugular area) by 

 a crescentic band of brownish wliite or pale brownish buff; lower 

 abdomen, flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts light geranium 

 red; thighs slate color, the longer feathers broadly tipped with 

 whitish; bill yellow (duller than in adult male), the maxilla some- 

 times tinged with brownish; iris and feet as in adult male; length 

 (skins), 275-302 (290); wing, 124-137 (132); tail, 165-185 (176.5); 

 culmen, 16.5-lS (17.2); tarsus, 14.5-15.5 (15.1); inner anterior toe, 

 14-15.5 (14.7).^^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but tail (except middle 

 rectrices) as in adult female, the middle rectrices greenish bronze or 

 bronze-green, passing into light russet-brown or cinnamon at tip. 

 (Younger individuals have the breast, below the wliite post-jugular 

 band, pale buffy grayish narrowly barred or vermiculated with darker, 

 passing into buffy white posteriorly, and secondaries with a terminal 

 spot of whitish.) 



« Thirteen specimens. 



The variation in color of the back, etc., from nearly pure metallic green to golden 

 bronze and in the hue of the middle rectrices occurs in both series of the mainland 

 birds, the extremes sometimes being shown in specimens from one locality. 

 81255°— Bull. 50—11 49 



