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under parts; smaller wing-coverts, tail-coverts, and thighs uniform 

 black, or with indistinct bluish violet margins; larger wing-coverts, 

 remiges, and rectrices faintly glossed with bluish; bill, legs, and feet 

 black; iris yellow or 3^ellowish white; length (skins), 303.5-355.6 

 (344.2); wing, 179.3-208.3 (201.2); tail, 135.4-159.3 (152.4); culmen, 

 from base, 36.6-39.9 (37.8); depth of bill at base, 17-18.5 (17.8); 

 tarsus, 45-48 (44.2); middle toe, 33.5-36.6 (35.6).^ 



Adult female. — Much smaller and duller colored than adult male. 

 Black, with tips of the feathers of head, neck, and body indistinctly 

 tipped with more glossy violaceous- black; bill, legs, and feet black; 

 length (skins), 275.6-308.6 (284.2); wing, 154.2-161.3 (157.5); tail, 

 112.5-122.4 (117.3); culmen, from base, 31.2-34 (40.9); depth of bill 

 at base, 15.2-15.7 (15.5); tarsus, 39.9^0.9 (40.4); middle toe, 27.^ 

 31.2 (29.5).' 



Immature male. — Similar in coloration to adult female, but larger, 

 slightly more glossy, and with neck-ruffs better developed. 



Colombia (Bogota; Manuare, Minca, Pueblo Viejo, La Concepcion, 

 and Palomina, province of Santa Marta; Remedios, province of 

 Antioquia), north to the Isthmus of Panama (Lion Hill, Panama, etc.*); 

 Costa Rica ? ; Nicaragua ? * 



Cassidix oryzivora (not Oriolus oryzivorus Gmelin) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 142, part (Bogota, Colombia); Ibis, 1884, 165, part (monogr. ); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 329, part (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.; Minca, Manuare, 

 Bogota, and Remedies, Colombia). — Sclater and Salvin, Proe. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1864, 354 (Isthmus of Panama); 1879, 510 (Remedios, Colombia). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 201 (Manuare, Prov. Santa Marta, Colom- 

 bia, 2,700 ft.); 1880, 123 (Santa Marta); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 444, 

 part (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ; Colombia). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xii, 1898, 159, 178 (Pueblo Viejo, 8,000 ft., and Palomina, prov. Santa Marta, 

 Colombia). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 163 (Valparaiso, prov. 

 Santa Marta) . 



^ Twelve specimens. 



■^ Four specimens. 



^ Panama specimens are not typical, but incline more or less toward C. o. mexicana. 

 Their average measurements, compared witli those of specimens from Santa INIarta, 

 Bogota, etc., are as follows: 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Colombia (Santa Marta, Bo- 

 gota, etc. ) 



Two adult Taales from Isthmus of Panama 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Santa Marta, Colombia ... 

 Two adult females from Isthmus of Panama 



35.6 

 35.8 



29.2 

 29.7 



' I have not seen specimens from Chiricjui, Veragua, Costa Rica, or Nicaragua. 



