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darkened on lower breast to dark crimson ; under wing coverts mixed 

 shining green and dull black. 



Female, feathers on side of head shorter, so that nostril is not 

 covered ; crest bushy, not compressed laterally ; upper tail coverts 

 in maximum development extending only slightly beyond tail ; middle 

 wing coverts long, but shorter than in male ; crown and side of head 

 metallic bronze-green ; rest of upper surface metallic golden green ; 

 tail slaty black, with the three outer feathers barred broadly with 

 white toward the tip ; wings, including greater coverts and the bases 

 of the lesser and middle coverts, black; primaries broadly edged with 

 buff ; chin and throat brownish gray ; lower foreneck and upper breast 

 metallic green ; lower breast, sides and upper abdomen brownish gray ; 

 lower abdomen, flanks and under tail coverts red. 



Nestling, above sooty brown, with scapulars and wing coverts 

 mottled heavily, and wing feathers edged, with buff to tawny ; breast 

 pale dull cinnamon-buff, edged with grayish brown; lower breast 

 and abdomen white, barred on the sides with grayish brown ; short, 

 stubby tail with outer feathers white, central pairs brownish black. 



Male, iris dark brown ; bill yellow ; tarsus and toes olive to dull 

 brown ; claws fuscous-black, with the lower margin dull yellow. 



An adult female taken at about 2,000 meters on Volcan Baru, 

 February 24, 1965, had the iris dark brown ; maxilla black ; mandible 

 dull yellow, tinged with dull green toward base; tarsus and toes dull 

 green ; claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui), wing 190-204 (193.4), 

 tail 157-175 (163.9), culmen from base 21.9-26.3 (23.5), tarsus 

 19.1-20.8 (19.9), longest upper tail coverts 512-698 (615) mm. 



Females (10 from Veraguas, Chiriqui, and Costa Rica), wing 

 185-195 (190.8), tail 156-184 (172.2), culmen from base 21.0-25.8 

 (23.3), tarsus 19.4-21.2 (20.1) mm. 



Resident. Locally fairly common in the Subtropical and lower 

 Temperate Zones in the mountains of Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro, and 

 Veraguas. 



The quetzal is an inhabitant of mountain forests, best known at 

 the present time from Chiriqui. P. L. Sclater published the first 

 account of it in Panama (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, p. 139), 

 when he listed it in a small collection of birds and mammals received 

 from Thomas Bridges. According to the collector, the bird was 

 found in "the dense forest on the Boqueti." Salvin (idem, 1870, pp. 

 202-203) reported specimens taken by Arce at Calobre and Calovevora 

 in Veraguas. Following this W. W. Brown, Jr., found the quetzal 



