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narrowly tipped with black, producing distinct bars, the occiput, 

 posterior part of crown, scapulars, and interscapulars similarly but 

 less distinctly barred, the rump and upper tail-coverts (which are 

 sometimes decidedly more yellowish green, especially the latter) 

 much more broadly barred, or transversely spotted, with black; 

 lesser wing-coverts mostly black, the middle coverts broadly tipped 

 with black; primaries grass green, becoming black next to shaft and 

 on terminal margin, the primary coverts similar but darker and 

 duller green; middle rectrices black medially, the black occupying 

 whole of the terminal portion, the other rectrices dusky medially; 

 under parts light green (javel green to apple green), the sides and 

 flanks more or less distinctly barred with black, the under tail-coverts 

 with more or less distinct small terminal spots of the same; under 

 wing-coverts clear light green, usually more or less (but never very 

 distinctly) narrowly barred or mottled with blackish toward edge of 

 wing, the carpo-metacarpal edge clear light yellowish green; under 

 primary coverts and under surface of remiges dull bluish green (deep 

 malachite or french green), the latter dusky toward shafts; bill pale 

 dull brownish yellow or buff; legs and feet pale brownish. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 157-165 (161); wing, 104.5-111 

 (107.7); tail, 59-62 (60.5); culmen, 12-12.5 (12.2); tarsus, 12-13 

 (12.5); outer anterior toe, 15.5-16 (15.7) .'^ 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 156-165 (161); wing, 103-109 

 ;i05.7); tail, 57-62.5 (59.1); cuhnen, 12-13 (12.7); tarsus, 11.5- 

 12.5 (12); outer anterior toe, 15-16 (15.6).« 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Puente Nacional; Cor- 

 dova; Coatepec), Mexico (near city of Mexico), and southward, 

 through Guatemala (Duenas; Chiquimula; Volcan de Fuego), and 

 Costa Rica (^^olcan de Irazii; Los Cuadros de Irazu; Naranjo de 

 Cartago; Escazu; Angostura), to western Panama (Chitra, Veragua; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui and Boquete, Chiriqui); Cozumel Island, Yuca- 

 tan? Venezuela? 



