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middle rectrices exceeding lateral pair by about length of tarsus from 

 distinctly rounded tips ; tarsus about one-third as long as wing, stout, the 

 spur on lower part of planta tarsi (in adult males) usually long and 

 very acute ; middle toe nearly half as long as tarsus, the outer toe reach- 

 ing decidedly beyond penultimate articulation of middle toe, the inner 

 toe slightly shorter ; hallux much shorter than basal phalanx of middle toe. 



Plumage and coloration. — Feathers of lower neck, back, rump, chest, 

 breast, sides and flanks, together with scapulars and smaller wing coverts 

 very broad, with truncate or subtruncate tips, those of lower abdomen 

 and anal region soft and somewhat downy, those of thighs short, soft, 

 and rounded ; secondaries moderately broad, with rounded tips, the 

 primaries rigid. General color brilliant green with golden and bluish 

 reflections, the greater wing coverts brilliant coppery bronze, the upper 

 tail coverts and tail broadly tipped with brilliant coppery bronze preceded 

 by a broad band or ocellus of brilliant coppery bronze, the secondaries 

 extensively white on outer webs; bare skin of head and upper neck bright 

 blue in life, the wartlike excrescences orange or orange-red. 



Range. — Yucatan and adjacent parts of Guatemala and British Hon- 

 duras. ( Monotypic. ) 



AGRIOCHARIS OCELLATA (Cuvier) 



OCELLATED TURKEY 



Adult male. — Basal half or more of the neck greenish bronze or bronze- 

 green, each feather tipped with bright metallic green or bronze-green and 

 with a subterminal bar, more or less complete, of velvety black ; upper 

 breast similar, but the terminal bars more bronzy, the lower breast, sides, 

 and flanks with the terminal bars becoming gradually broader and more 

 coppery posteriorly, with remainder of each feather more blackish ; ab- 

 domen, anal region, and thighs plain sooty or dusky, the longer under 

 tail coverts metallic bluish green or greenish blue subterminally and 

 broadly tipped with brilliant metallic copper-bronze; feathers of back 

 metallic bronze-green, blackish on concealed portion, broadly tipped with 

 bright greenish bronze (becoming bright coppery isabelline in certain 

 lights), and with a narrow subterminal bar of black, the scapulars similar 

 but with terminal bars broader and more brassy bronze; smaller wing 

 coverts bright metallic green, more bluish toward bend of wing, more 

 bronzy posteriorly, each with a narrow subterminal bar of black ; greater 

 wing coverts brilliant metallic coppery bronze ; inner secondaries grayish 

 brown with irregular, broken oblique bars of white, the distal secondaries 

 with outer webs white with concealed spots of grayish brown next to 

 shaft, corresponding with larger spots or imperfect bands on middle 

 secondaries ; primaries, primary coverts, and alula grayish dusky with 

 irregular oblique bars of white on both webs ; feathers of rump bright 

 metallic blue, broadly tipped with bronze and crossed by a broad bar of 



