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under parts; smaller wing-coverts, tail-coverts, and thighs uniform 

 black, or with indistinct bluish violet margins; larger wing-coverts, 

 remiges, and rectrices faintly glossed with bluish; bill, legs, and feet 

 black; iris yellow or yellowish white; length (skins), 303.5-355.6 

 (344.2); wing, 179.3-208.3 (201.2); tail, 135.4^159.8 (152.4); culmen, 

 from base, 36.6-39.9 (37.8); depth of bill at base, 17-18.6 (17.8); 

 tarsus, 45-48 (44.2); middle toe, 33.5-36.6 (35.6).^ 



Adult female. — Much smaller and duller colored than adult male. 

 Black, with tips of the feathers of head, neck, and body indistinctly 

 tipped with more glossy violaceous-black; bill, legs, and feet black; 

 length (skins), 275.6-308.6 (284.2); wing, 154.2-161.3 (157.5); tail, 

 112.5-122.4 (117.3); culmen, from base, 31.2-34 (40.9); depth of bill 

 at base, 15.2-15.7 (15.5); tarsus, 39.9-40.9 (40.4); middle toe, 27.4r- 

 31.2 (29.5).' 



Immatwre male. — Similar in coloration to adult female, but larger, 

 slightly more glossy, and with neck-ruffs better developed. 



Colombia (Bogota; Manuare, Minca, Pueblo Viejo, La Concepcion, 

 and Palomina, province of Santa Marta; Remedies, province of 

 Antioquia), north to the Isthmus of Panama (Lion Hill, Panama, etc.'); 

 Costa Rica ?; Nicaragua? * 



Coisidix oryzivora (not Oriolus oryzivorus Gmelin) Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 142, part (Bogota, Colombia); Ibis, 1884, 165, part (monogr.); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 329, part (Lion Hill, Panama E,. R.; Minca, Manuare, 

 Bogota, and Remedios, Colombia). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. See. 

 Lond., 1864, 354 (Isthmus of Panama); 1879, 510 (Remedios, Colombia).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 201 (Manuare, Prov. Santa Marta, Colom- 

 bia, 2,700 ft. ) ; 1880, 123 (Santa Marta) ; Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 444, 

 part (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ; Colombia). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xii, 1898, 159,' 178 (Pueblo Viejo, 8,000 ft, and Palomina, prov. Santa Marta, 

 Colombia). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 163 (Valparaiso, prov. 

 Santa Marta) . 



' Twelve specimens. 



^ Four specimens. 



' Panama specimens are not typical, but incline more or less toward C. o. mexicana. 

 Their average measurements, compared with those of specimens from Santa Marta, 

 Bogota, etc., are as follows: 



* I have not seen specimens from Chiriqui, Veragua, Costa Rica, or Nicaragua. 



