BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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the chest, uniting the two lateral areas; length (sldns), 265-303 (282) ; 

 wmg, 126-146 (136.1); tail, 74.5-85.5 (80); exposed cuhnen, 65-77.5 

 (69.7); tarsus, 11-14 (12.6); middle toe, 15.5-19 (17.3)° 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male but white of chest more or 

 less suffused with pale brownish buffy, dark metalhc greenish areas 

 on sides of chest broken by streaks of brownish buffy, and wing- 

 coverts more or less speckled with white. 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Mirador; Mi- 

 santla; La Antigua; Vega de Casadero; Santa Ana; Plan del Rio; 

 Catemaco; Tlalcotalpam), Puebli (Puente Nacional), Sinaloa (Ma- 

 zatlan; Escuinapa), Colima (Rio Tupila), Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia), 

 Tabasco (Teapa), Yucatan, and Chiapas (Huehuetan) and Territory 

 of Tepic (San Bias), and southward through Guatemala (San Ge- 

 ronimo; Vera Paz; San Jose; Huamuchal; Naranjo; Rio Chocan; 

 Los Amates, Yzab&l), British Honduras (Cayo; Manatee District), 

 Honduras (Lago de Yojoa; Omoa; Ceiba), Nicaragua (Omotepe; 

 Rio Escondido), and Costa Rica (Agua Caliente; Orosi; Navarro de 

 Cartago ; Jimenez ; Pacuare; Sipiirio, Talamanca; La Junta; Bebedero; 



"Twenty-seven specimens. 



Locality. 



Tarsus 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Very Cruz 



One adult male from Sinaloa 



One adult male from Colima 



One adult male from Chiapas 



One adult male from Brit. Honduras . . 



On e adult male from Nicaragua 



Three adult males from Costa Rica . . . 



Five adult males from Panama 



Three adult males from Colombia 



One adult male from British Guiana. . 



Four adult males from s.e. Brazil 



Two adult males from Uruguay 



One adult male from Paraguay 



Two adult males from e. Peru 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Vera Cruz 



One adult female from Oaxaca 



One adult female from Guatemala 



One adult female from Brit. Honduras 



One adult female from Honduras , 



One adult female from Nicaragua , 



Five adult females from Costa Rica 



Three adult females from Panama 



Four adult females from Colombia 



Two adult females from Brit. Guiana . . 

 Six adult females from Brazil 



12.1 



13.5 



12 



13 



12.5 



13.5 



12.7 



12.2 



11.8 



12 



12 



12 



13.5 



12 



13.7 



12.5 



12.5 



12.5 



12 



14 



13.2 



12.7 



12.4 



11.5 



11. S 



17.6 



18.5 



18 



17 



18 



19 



17.3 



17.2 



16.3 



16.5 



15.9 



16 



18 



16 



18.2 



18 



19 



17.5 



17 



17.5 



18.4 



17.7 



17.1 



16 



15.8 



