BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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feet purplish red to pale lake red; iris ocher yellow, orange, dusky 

 orange, brownish orange, or reddish brown; length (skins), 207-27S 

 (229); wing, 131-149.5 (139.7); tail, 64.5-89 (77); exposed culmen, 

 10-13.5 (12.3); tarsus, 26-31 (27.9); middle toe, 19-26 (23.8).° 



Adult female. — Very different in coloration from the adult male. 

 Upper parts light olive-brown or deep drab to dark brownish olive oi 

 deep sepia brown, becoming much paler and more rufescent (wood 

 brown to dull cinnamon) on forehead and superciliary region, the 

 back, etc., faintly glossed with greenish bronze (at least in fresh 

 plumage) ; suborbital and auricular regions and anterior portion 

 of malar region similar in color to forehead and superciliary region, 

 darkening below into darker cinnamon-brownish, forming a more oi 

 less distinct elongated patch; chin and throat buffy white to deep 

 pinkish buff or pale cinnamon-buff; foreneck and chest dull cinnamon 

 to deep cinnamon, buffy wood brown, dull snuff brown, or bister, 

 fading into buff (more or less deep) on abdomen, the flanks more oi 

 less suffused or intermixed with color of chest; under tail-coverts dull 

 buffy, passing into paler buff or buffy white on margins, often with a 

 deeper buff mesial streak; axillars and under wing-coverts mostly 

 light dull buff to oinnamon-buff , the under surface of remiges rufous- 

 cinnamon or light mikado brown, passing into light grayish brown 

 terminally; length (skins), 187-260 (229); wing, 127-145 (136.6): 

 tail, 65-84 (73.7); exposed culmen, 8-13.5 (11.2); tarsus, 25-29.5 

 (27.4); middle toe, 21-25.5 (23.2) . b 



" Eighty-six specimens. 



Fifty-five specimens. 



Locality. 



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MALES. 



Tenadult males from Cuba 



Three adult males from Isle oi Pines 



Nine adult males from Haiti 



Ten adult males from Jamaica 



Six adult males from Porto Rico 



Four adult males from Grenada 



One adult male from tierra caliente of Mexico (Vera Cruz?) 



One adult male from Tabasco 



One adult male from Siualoa 



Three adult males from Guatemala 



Seven adult males from British Honduras 



Four adult males from Nicaragua 



Six adult males from_Costa Rica 



Seven adult males from Panama 



Fiveadult males from Colombia 



Two adult males from Venezuela 



Fiveadultmalesfrom Brazil 



One adult male from western Ecuador 



Oneadult male from Bolivia 



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