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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



malar region, chin, throat, and chest plain brown (like color of 

 rump); rest of underparts as in adult male, but the yellow usually 

 less intense, and sides of breast washed or intermixed with brownish 

 gray; maxilla blackish, the lower basal portion and mandible light 

 grayish yellowish (in dried skins), the whole maxilla also sometimes 

 yellowish; length (sldns), 227-263 (242); wing, 105.5-115.5 (111.6); 

 tail, 129.5-152 (138.4); culmen, 15.5-17.5 (17.2); tarsus, 12-14 

 (12.8); inner anterior toe, 12-14 (13.2). « 



Immature Tnale. — Intermediate in coloration between the adult 

 male and adult female, the pileum, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 etc., being bright metallic golden green, as in the former, but sides 

 of head, throat, and chest, together with larger wing-coverts and 

 secondaries, brown, as in the latter; tad as in adult female but six 

 middle rectrices partly metallic green basally, the middle pair without 

 distinct black tip. (Older specimens have more or less of metallic 

 green on chest, chin and throat black, and wing-coverts and sec- 

 ondaries as in adult male.) 



Young male (nestling). — Pileum, hindneck, back, and scapulars 

 warm cinnamon or russet, passing on rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 into cinnamon-rufous, the middle rectrices chestnut abruptly tipped 

 with black; wing-coverts and secondaries light buffy brown or wood 

 brown, vermiculated with grayish dusky, most of the feathers with 

 a very large roundish or subcordate spot of buff, deeper buff on 

 lesser coverts, paler on tertials, these spots margined with a dusky 

 line; remiges, primary coverts, alula, and lateral rectrices as in adult 

 female; an interrupted white orbital ring, lores grayish dusky; 

 chin, throat, and chest uniform cinnamon-brown or russet; rest of 

 underparts light tawny, deeper on breast, paler posteriorly and on 

 upper margin of breast (where somewhat intermixed with whitish 

 tawny) . 



Panama (Lion Hill; Chepo; Panama; Chitra; Calov^vora; Bugaba; 

 Divala; Santiago de Veragua; Santa Fe de Veragua; Cordillera de 



a Nineteen specimens. 



