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portion black, for the most part barred M'ith white, the outermost 

 rectrix with the outer web barred for wliole len<]:;th (but basally the 

 w^hite bars not reaching to shaft), the inner web also barred for 

 greater part, but the white bars becoming gradually narrower and 

 shorter (from edge of web) proximally, the third rectrix (from out- 

 side) with outer wel) barred for more than half its length but the 

 inner web with not more than one or two complete bars (often with 

 none at all) — the white bars continuous (involving the shaft) on the 

 subterminal portion of two outer rectrices and there nearly (some- 

 times quite) equal in width to the ])lack int(>rs|)aces; wing-coverts 

 and secondaries minuteh'' vermiculated with black and white; 

 primaries dull black, tho longer ones edged with white for basal half 

 or more; chest metallic bluish green, blue, or violet-blue, rarely l)lack, 

 glossed, more or less, with metallic l)luish green or ))lue; rest of luider 

 parts rich pure orange-yellow or yellowish orange (cadmium yellow 

 to orange)," paler, sometimes slightly intermixed with A\hitish, along 

 anterior margin (next to metallic blue of chest), the outer portion of 

 sides and flanks gray, tinged or washed with ()range-3^ellow, the 

 thighs and tarsal feathers black; bill pale yellowish or grayish in 

 dried skins, pale olive-gray or dull glaucous * or ashy blue '' in life; 

 naked orbital ring orange-yellow,^ like color of abdomen; iris dark 

 brown;'' feet gray '' or plumbeous;^ length (skins), 214-254 (229); 

 wing, 110-134 (121.1); tail, 112-135 (122.6); culmen, 15-18.5 (16.6); 

 tarsus, 12.5-15 (13.4); inner anterior toe, 12-15 (13.5).'^ 



Adult female. — Upper parts (cxt'('])t wings) plain slate color, darker 

 (blackish slate) on pilcum, the middle rectrices abrui)tly and rather 

 broadly tipped with black; a broad white orbital ring, interrupted 

 on upper and low^er eyelids; wings black, or slate-black, the wing- 

 coverts and secondaries narrowly barred M'ith white transverse lines 

 (these several times narrower than the broad black interspaces), the 

 longer primaries edged with white; three lateral rectrices with inner 

 web black tipped with wdiite, the latter extending, wedge-like, for a 

 greater or less distance next to shaft, the outer web broadly barred 

 with wdiite (for nearly entire length of outermost, for about one-third 

 the length of third rectrix) ; sides of head and neck, chin, throat, and 

 chest plain slate color or blackish slate; outer portion of sides and 

 flanks lighter slate color or slate-gray, tinged with orange-yellow; 

 tibial and tarsal feathers black; rest of under parts orange-yellow, 

 paler (usuall}' somewhat intermixed with white) along anterior 

 margin; bill light grayish or buffy in dried skins, the maxilla some- 

 times partly blackish; iris dark brown; feet dusky horn color or 

 brownish in dried skins, grayish in hfe; length (skins), 213-247 (231); 



» Of the author's "Nomenclature of Colors." 



b Fresh colors of specimens shot by the writer in Costa Rica. 



c Accordin'j: to Sumichrast. 



d Fifty-three spcciineu.s. 



