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scries dusky, externally ashy ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black, edged with dull slaty grey ; quills black, extci'nally edged 

 with slaty grey, hoary on the primaries, the inner secondaries 

 washed with steel-green ; tail-feathers black, externally glossed with 

 steel-green, all but the centre feathers with a spot of white on the 

 inner web, which increases in extent towards the outermost feather ; 

 head crested, dove-colour or lavender-grey ; base of forehead and 

 ej'elid white ; lores and feathers below the e)'e dusky ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of hinder crown lavender-brown, extending round the hind 

 neck ; sides of neck grey like the back ; fore part of cheeks and 

 chin white ; remainder of throat lavender-brown ; fore neck and 

 breast bluish grey like the back ; abdomen and thighs white ; lower 

 flanks deep olive-yellow ; under tail-coverts golden yellow ; axil- 

 laries ashy grey with whitish edges ; under wing-coverts ashy, more 

 or less broadly edged with white ; quills blackish below, white along 

 the inner webs : " bill and feet black " {Salvin) ; " ii'is carmine " 

 (Xantus). Total length 8"5 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3"65, tail 

 4-15, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Not so richly coloured as the male. Brown above, 

 somewhat more isabelline on the lower back and rump ; the head 

 lavender-brown ; upper tail-coverts slaty grey ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the greater series dusky, externally brown ; quills blackish, 

 externally edged with ashy brown, the primaries with grey ; tail- 

 feathers as in the male, but the centre ones washed with brown, 

 and the white marks on the others not so large, and scarcely visible 

 beyond the three outer ones ; sides of head and ear-coverts and 

 throat pale lavender-brown ; chin, base of forehead, and eyelid 

 white ; sides of body ruddy brown, the centre of the breast and 

 abdomen white ; thighs white ; under tail-coverts golden yellow ; 

 no olive-yellow on the flanks ; axillarics and under wing-coverts 

 ruddy brown, those near the edge of the wing edged with white ; 

 quills blackish below, ashy white along the inner web. Total 

 length 8-4 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3'75, tail 4, tarsus 0*65. 



Young. Like the old female but browner, the back reddish 

 brown ; under surface of body reddish brown, the throat grey, whiter 

 on the chin. 



The bird in first plumage is described by Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman as resembling the female ; " the belly is yellowish and the 

 same colour as the crissum, the wings and tail being coloured like 

 those of the adult." 



Hab. Mexico to Guatemala. 



«. [ 2 1 ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Collection. 



i. r$1ad. sk. Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



c.[c? Jad.sk. Mexico. Sclater Collection. 



d, e. (J 2 ftd. st. Mexico. Purchased. 



f.[d] ad. sk. Guatemala. Gould Collection. 



.</■ [ d 1 ad. sk. Guatemala. J. Gould, Esq. 



A. [$ 1juv.sk. Guatemala, (Co7ista»cia). Sclater Collection. 



i. (S ad. sk. Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala, Sclater Collection. 

 Sept. 4, 1873 (Salvin), 



