BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



485 



150 (142); tail, 72-92 (79.9); exposed culmen, 14-15.5 (14.8); 

 tarsus, 25-27 (26); middle toe, 21.5-23 (22.1).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but coloration much duller; 

 scapulars, greater wing-coverts, alulse, primary coverts, and terminal 

 portion of primaries olive-brown instead of chestnut; metallic gloss 

 on back much less distinct, sometimes coppery bronze instead of 

 purple or violet ; crown, occiput, and hindneck decidedly brown, with 

 metallic gloss very faint or altogether absent; foreneck and chest dull 

 buffy grayish, with little if any vinaceous tinge, and distal under wing- 

 coverts brown instead of vinaceous-russet; length (skins), 210-245 

 (227) ; wing, 135-146 (139.7) ; tail, 73.5-85 (79.5) ; exposed culmen, 

 13.5-14.5 (14); tarsus, 25-26.5 (25.8); middle toe, 21-21.5 (21.2).^ 



Young. — Above olive-brown, passing into dull chestnut on upper 

 tail-coverts and tail, the interscapulars, scapulars, at least some of 

 the wing-coverts, and proximal secondaries, rather broadly tipped or 

 terminally margined with russet or cinnamon and with a subterminal 

 bar of dusky; crown, occiput, and nape dusky brown, the first, at 

 least, with rusty brown tips to the feathers; foreneck and chest 

 grayish brown or brownish gray, the feathers broadly tipped with 

 cinnamon and with a rather broad subterminal bar of darker grayish 

 brown, or dusky; otherwise, much as in adult female; bill brownish; 

 iris brown.*^ 



Nicaragua (Pena Blanca), Costa Rica (Tenorio; Volcan de Mira- 

 valles; Angostura, in valley of Rio Reventazon, 2,000 ft.), Panam^ 

 (Lion HiU; Cerro Azul, 1,000 ft), and Colombia (Cacagualito and 

 Don Diego, Santa Marta) . 



Geotrygon violacea? (not Coluraha violacea Temminck and Knip, 1808-11) Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1872, 477 (Lion Hill Panama; crit.; descr. 

 adnlt male). 



Geotrygon violacea Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis., xxi, 1893, 565, part 

 (Panama). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 447 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica; 

 habits). 



a Five specimens. 



b Three specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Nicaragua (Pena Blanca) 



Three adult males from Costa Rica 



One adult male from Panama (Lion Hill?) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Costa Rica 



One adult female from middle Panama (Cerro Azul) 



One adult female from Colombia (Don Diego, Santa Marta) 



Middle 

 toe. 



22.5 



22 



22 



21 



21.5 



21 



c Mrs. H. H. Smith. 



