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Adult female. —SunilsiT to the adult male but gular area tawny-buff 

 instead of white, and fourth rectrLx (from outer side) usually with 

 outer web edged for part of its length with metallic green or bronze- 

 green; length (skins), 205-238 (224); wing, 79-87 (83.1); tail, 90- 

 100 (96.8); exposed culmen, 40.5-55.5 (48.9); outer anterior toe, 

 10.5-12.5 (11.3).'^ 



Young waZe.— Similar in coloration to the adult male, but chin 

 mostly white medially. 



Southeastern Mexico in States of Vera Cruz (Buena Vista; Tolosa; 

 Playa Vicente) and Chiapas (Palenque) and southward through Gua- 

 temala (Teleman; sources of Rio de la Pasion; Choctum; Chisec 

 Coban; Las Salinas; Los Amates, Ysabal), British Honduras (Belize 

 Toledo District), Honduras (Omoa; San Pedro; Chaloma; Julian 

 Rio Blanco; Rio Segovia; Ceiba; Yaruca), Nicaragua (Chontales 

 Rio Escondido; Los Sabalos; Matagalpa; Uluce; La Libertad 

 Lavala; Pena Blanca), Costa Rica (Bebedero; Angostura; San 

 Carlos; Turrialba; La Palma de Nicoya; Las Trojas; Jhnenez; 

 San Mateo; El Pozo de Terraba; Pozo del Rio Grande; El Gen- 

 eral; Pozo Aziil de Pirris; Palmar; Lagarto; Boruca; Buenos 

 Aires; Guayabo; Bonilla; Guapiles; Carrillo; Guachno; Cuabre; 

 Pacuare; El Hogar; Talamanca; Juan Vinas; Bolson), Panama' 

 (Divala; David, Boqueron, Bugaba, Mina de Chorcha, and Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, Chiriqui), and Colombia (Rio Nercua) to western 



"^ Thirty-four specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Vera Cruz 



Three adult males from Chiapas , 



Eight adult males from Guatemala 



Seven adult males from Honduras 



Five adult males from Nicaragua 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica 



Ten adult males from western Panama . 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from Vera Cruz 



Two adult females from Chiapas 



Three adult females from Guatemala 



One adult female from British Honduras. 



One adult female from Honduras 



Three adult females from Nicaragua 



Ten adult females from Costa Rica 



Ten adult females from western Panama. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



86.3 

 86.5 

 85.3 

 85.4 

 84.5 

 83.7 

 84.6 



86.2 



85.2 



81.7 



83 



88 



83.3 



82 



82.1 



106.7 

 106.2 

 105.9 

 104.3 

 102.2 

 99 

 101.8 



101.5 

 100.7 

 94.7 

 100.5 

 100.5 

 97.8 

 95.2 

 94.9 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen 



52.2 

 55.2 

 53.9 

 53.8 

 51.1 

 48.9 

 52.2 



50.1 



48.5 



49.7 



53 



48 



45. 5 



47.6 



50.1 



Tarsus. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



12.8 

 13.3 

 12.7 

 12.8 

 13.1 

 12.9 

 12.5 



12.7 

 12.2 

 12.2 

 12.5 



11.3 



11.5 



11.6 



11.4 



11.1 



11 



11.2 



11.6 

 11.2 

 10.8 

 11.5 



12.8 

 12.7 

 12.4 



11.3 

 11.6 

 11.2 



I am not able to detect any color differences between specimens from different 

 geographic areas. Specimens from western Ecuador have not been seen by me. 



