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bronze-green, tipped with dull white or pale buffy, the other rec- 
trices white for basal half (more or less), then dull black, glossed on 
outer web with bronze-green, the tip white or pale buffy; remiges 
dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; suborbital and auricular 
regions blackish brown or dusky, margined above by a postocular 
spot or short stripe of pale cinnamon or buffy and below by a malar 
stripe of the same; chin and upper throat dusky, the feathers mar- 
gined or tipped with grayish buffy or pale cinnamon; lower throat 
and upper chest cinnamon-rufous, changing gradually to pale buffy 
grayish on lower chest, breast, and abdomen (the last tinged with 
cinnamon-rufous), the sides and flanks deeper buffy grayish, more or 
less tinged (especially the flanks) with pale cinnamon-rufous; under 
tail-coverts olive-bronze, broadly margined with cinnamon or cinna- 
mon-buff; maxilla dull black, mandible whitish (pink or reddish in 
life?), passing into dusky at tip; iris dark brown; feet pale brownish 
or dull yellowish (in dried skins). 
Young (first plumage) —Essentially like adults but lower throat 
and chest dull buffy grayish instead of tawny, and feathers of upper 
surface narrowly margined terminally with dull brownish buffy. 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 107-120 (113); wing, 52.5-60 (57.7); 
tail, 31-388 (34.4); culmen, 28-31 (30.5).¢ 
Adult female—Length (skins), 101-116 (108); wing, 52-57.5 
(54.4); tail, 31-35.5 (32.9); culmen, 26.5-32 (29.7).® 
Nicaragua (Rio Escondido), Costa Rica (Angostura; Jiménez; 
El Hogar; Carrillo; Guacimo; Turrialba, 2,000 feet; Gudapiles; 
Cudbre; Talamanca; Pozo Azul de Pirris; Pozo del Rio Grande) and 
Panama (Lion Hill; Panam4; Paraiso; Bibaliz; Mina de Chorcha; 
Veragua); northwestern Colombia (Rio Dagua) ?; Guatemala? 
Troch{ilus] ruckeri BourcteR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 46 (locality unknown; 
coll. M. Loddiges). 
Glaucis ruckert GouLD, Mon. Troch., i, Nov., 1851, pl. 11; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 
1861, 39 (Veradgua, Panam4).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 319 
(Lion Hill, Panamé); ix, 1868, 121 (Costa Rica).—ScLaTER and Savin, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 364 (Lion Hill)—Muusanr and VERREAUX, Classif. 
Troch., 1866, 14; Hist. Nat. Ois.; Mouch., i, livr. 1, 1873, 47, part (Verégua).— 
Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 204 (Mina de Chorcha, Panamé).— 
Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica).—E..iot, Classif. and 
Synop. Troch., 1879, 8, part (‘‘Central America”’).—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. 
Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 308 (Panam4; Costa Rica).—ZELEDON, Cat. Aves de 
Costa Rica, 1882, 19; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121 (Angostura 
and Jiménez, Costa Rica). 
G[laucis] ruckeri Capanis and Heinz, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 4, footnote (Ver4- 
gua). 
Plolytmus] ruckert Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 108. 
[Polytmus] ruckeri Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 126, no. 1573. 
@ Thirteen specimens. b Eleven specimens. 
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