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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



a collar of dark chestnut; wings and tail plain dark and dull olive- 

 greenish; rump and upper tail-coverts bright poppy red or carmme; 

 under parts of body sharply divided mto tliree differently colored 

 areas, of which the anterior one, covering chest or breast, is canary 

 yellow, much mtermixed with bright red (especially next to black of 

 foreneck), the chest with a central spot of black; the next one a broad 

 band across upper abdomen of bright red margined anteriorly with 

 black, or a line of black spots; the third, covering whole of lower 

 abdomen, immaculate canary yellow; thighs chestnut or deep cin- 

 namon-rufous; under tail-coverts mixed yellow and light chestnut; 

 under wing-coverts pale smoky yellowish, the inner webs of remiges 

 largely pale wood brownish; maxilla with greater part bright orange, 

 paling into orange-yellow (on sides) proximally, the subbasal inch, 

 more or less, clear olive, the tomial serrations grayish white with 

 detached streaks of dusky immediately above, the proximal two- 

 thirds, more or less, of culmen black (this forming a wedge-shaped 

 area), the base of the maxilla margined by an embossed, more or less 

 distinctly sulcate, lamina of pale buffy yellow or yellowish white; 

 mandible black, becoming brownish terminally, margined basally 

 and around angle of chin by an embossed pale yellowish or whitish 

 lamina, like that of maxilla; bare orbital space dusky in front of and 

 immediately around eye; otherwise deep orange-red or vermiUon; 

 iris lemon yellow; legs and feet yellowish olive-green." 



Young. — Similar to adults but coloration duller, without distinct, 

 if, any, black anterior margui to the red abdominal band and with 

 the bill brownish and dull yellowish, without the sharply defined 

 "pattern" of adults. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 395-478 (432); wmg, 147-159 (154.8); 

 tail, 147-163.5 (158.1); culmen, 96.5-123 (115.6); tarsus, 35-38 

 (36.4); inner anterior toe, 31-34 (32.3).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 393-412 (402); wing, 139-153 

 (147.7); tail, 152.5-158 (155); culmen, 101-107 (104.3); tarsus, 

 34-37 (35.9); mner anterior toe, 31-33.5 (32.1).'' 



o Fresh colore of specimens shot by the author near Pigres, Costa Rica. 



& Eleven specimens. i 



c Four specimens. 



