BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



479 



feet purplish red to pale lake red; iris ocher yellow, orange, dusky 

 orange, brownish, orange, or reddish brown; length (skins), 207-278 

 (229); wing, 131-149.5 (139.7); tail, 64.5-89 (77); exposed culmen, 

 10-13.5 (12.3); tarsus, 26-31 (27.9); middle toe, 19-26 (23.8).« 



Adult female. — Very different in coloration from the adult male. 

 Upper parts light oHve-brown or deep drab to dark brownish olive or 

 deep sepia brown, becoming much paler and more rufescent (wood 

 brown to dull cinnamon) on forehead and superciliary region, the 

 back, etc., faintly glossed with greenish bronze (at least in fresh 

 plumage) ; suborbital and auricular regions and anterior portion 

 of malar region similar in color to forehead and superciliary region, 

 darkening below into darker cinnamon-brownish, forming a more or 

 less distinct elongated patch; chin and throat buffy white to deep 

 pinkish buff or pale cinnamon-buff; foreneck and chest dull cinnamon 

 to deep cinnamon, buffy wood brown, dull snuff bro\vn, or bister, 

 fading into buff (more or less deep) on abdomen, the flanks more or 

 less suffused or intermixed with color of chest; under tail-coverts dull 

 buffy, passing into paler buff or buffy white on margins, often with a 

 deeper buff mesial streak; axillars and mider wing-coverts mostly 

 Hght dull buff to cinnamon-buff, the imder surface of remiges rufous- 

 cinnamon or light mikado browii, passing into light grayish brown 

 terminally; length (skins), 187-260 (229) ; wing, 127-145 (136.6); 

 tail, 65-84 (73.7); exposed culmen, 8-13.5 (11.2); tarsus, 25-29.5 

 (27.4); middle toe, 21-25.5 (23.2) .«> 



« Eighty-six specimens. 



b Fifty-five specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Cuba 



Three adult males from Isle of Pines 



Nine adult males from Haiti 



Ten adult males from Jamaica 



Six adult males from Porto Rico 



Four adult males from Grenada 



One adult male from tierra caliente of Mexico (Vera Cruz?) 



One adult male from Tabasco 



One adult male from Siaaloa 



Three adult males from Guatemala 



Seven adult males from British Honduras 



Four adult males from Nicaragua 



Six adult males from Costa Rica 



Seven adult males from Panama 



Five adult males from Colombia 



Two adult males from Venezuela 



Five adult males from Brazil 



One adult male from western Ecuador 



One adult male from Bolivia 



Wing. 



142.1 



143.2 



142.2 



142.2 



140.2 



143 



146 



141 



143 



140.7 



13S.6 



138.5 



137.2 



136.8 



135.2 



137.2 



135.8 



131 



136 



Tail. 



79.5 



78.3 



79.9 



77.9 



77.2 



75.1 



82 



73 



86 



76.7 



74.7 



74.9 



72.6 



72.1 



72.2 



72.5 



76.4 



70.5 



74.5 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus, 



11.6 



11.8 



11.1 



11.3 



11.5 



11.7 



11 



13 



11 



11.2 



11.4 



11.6 



11 



11.2 



11.9 



10.7 



10.5 



10.5 



27.7 



27.8 



29.1 



29.1 



27.9 



29.5 



26.5 



28.5 



29 



28 



27.9 



29 



28.5 



28 



27.4 



28 



27.4 



26 



27 



Middle 

 toe. 



23.9 



23.5 



23.9 



24.6 



24.2 



24.4 



22 



24 



26 



23.7 



23.2 



24.7 



23.8 



24 



23.3 



23.2 



23.1 



19 



23.5 



