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bronzy shade, becoming rather more bluish green on the rump 

 aud mixed with piu'ple on the upper tail-coverts ; on each side of the 

 rump a white patch ; scapulars green like the back ; wing-coverts 

 black, the lesser and median series tipped with bluish green ; 

 greater coverts, bastard-wing, primarj'-covcrts, and quills black, 

 externallj' glossed with deep indigo ; tail-feathers also black with a 

 bluish gloss ; crown of head bronzy green : occiput and nape purple, 

 with a concealed narrow collar of ashy round the hind neck, caused 

 simply by the grey bases of the feathers ; lores dusky ; feathers 

 over the eye extending down behind the latter, ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 sides of face, and entire i;nder surface of body silky white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries smoky brown with whitish edgings, the 

 coverts near the edge of the wing and the lower greater coverts 

 darker ; quiUs dusky brown below, rather more ashy on their inner 

 edge ; " bill black ; feet brownish black ; iris brown ; mouth pale 

 yellow" (Co»es). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4-3, 

 tail 1-65, tarsus 0-45. 



After breeding the plumage gets much worn and the colours 

 consequently duller, the throat and breast being particularly abraded 

 aud more ashy. As the purplish lustre disappears from the back, 

 the latter becomes greener aud the head more oily green, the 

 last remains of purple being on the nape and hind neck. 



Adult female. Distinguished from the male by the colour of tbe 

 ear-coverts, which, with the spot behind the eye, are dusky brown 

 with a purplish gloss ; the entire head is likewise bronzy brown with 

 a purplish gloss, without the oil-green lustre seen in the adult male ; 

 the checks, throat, and fore neck are also washed with dingy brown. 

 Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 4-25, tail 0-6, tarsus 0-4. 

 Adult male in winter plumage (DvLena.s, ; 0. Salvin). Differs from 

 the breeding-plumage in being entirely bronzy or oil-brown washed 

 with purple. This purple shade is much more strongly pronounced 

 than in summer, and the remains of it are noticeable in the descrip- 

 tion of the breeding-dress, where the purple occiput and hind neck 

 are alluded to as coutrasting with the crown. The green and purple 

 shades on the rump and upper tail-coverts are the same in both 

 seasons, and the under surface and facial markings do not differ. 



Young birds are easily recognizable by the broad white tips to 

 the inner secondaries, and by the general oily-green colour of the 

 upper parts, with only a slight purplish gloss ; the blue and purple 

 lustre on the rump and upper tail-coverts is also less developed. 

 The white on the underparts is somewhat more dingy than in the 

 adults. 



The young male resembles the old female at first as regards the 

 facial markings, and the white eye-spot and ear-coverts are gradually 

 assumed. The white tips to the inner secondaries are gradually worn 

 off, and by March of the succeediug year have nearly disappeared. 



Hah. Middle and Western North America, wintering in Central 

 America as far as Guatemala. 



a, h. iS ad. ; c, d. West side of Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Juv. sk. Mountains. 



