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parts, and chest green with bronze and blue reflexions ; a white 

 pectoral band separates the chest from the rest of the underparts 

 ■which are blood-red ; thighs black ; wings black ; quills with white 

 bases, the outer webs of the primaries margined and those of the 

 secondaries vermiculated with white ; greater primary-coverts black, 

 rest of the coverts vermiculated like the oufer webs of the second- 

 aries : middle pair of tail-feathers green glossed with purplish blue 

 and with a terminal black band ; second and third pairs the same 

 but with the inner web black, fourth pair black with the basal half 

 of the outer web glossed with green ; two outer pairs black, some- 

 times slightly freckled with white on the margin of the outer web • 

 bill orange. Total length 11-8 inches, wing 6-2, tail 6, tarsus 0-6* 

 An immature male differs from the adult in having the second- 

 aries and greater secondary-coverts margined and marked on the 

 outer web with white and buff, the chest grey slightly mixed with 

 green, and the three outer pairs of tail-feathers tipped and irregu- 

 larly barred on the terminal part of the outer web with white ; 

 the centre tail-feathers also are blackish slightly glossed with green' 

 and without the terminal black bar of the adult. 



Adult female. Head and upper parts dark grey, breast and chest 

 lighter ; rest of underparts blood-red ; thighs blackish grey : wings 

 as m the adult male but browner, and the white vermiculations on 

 the wing-coverts and outer webs of the secondaries are much finer 

 and further apart, often fainter, sometimes absent; tail blackish: 

 bill with the culmen black, rest orange. Total length 11-7 inches" 

 wing 6-2, tail 6, tarsus 0-6. 



An immature female differs from the adult in having the outer 

 webs of the secondaries margined with white, the two outer pairs 

 of tail-feathers slightly tipped, and irregularly barred on the ter- 

 minal half of the outer web, with white, and the fourth pair 

 margined with white at the tip. 



Bab. S. America north of about lat. 5° South. 



