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blue of upper throat and chin; chest, breast (except medially), sides, 
and flanks metallic bronze or bronze-green, interrupted by grayish 
margins to the feathers, the basal grayish also showing where feathers 
are disarranged; median line of breast and abdomen dull grayish 
white, sometimes tinged with brownish buffy; femoral tufts dull 
white; under tail-coverts grayish brown, faintly glossed with bronze, 
centrally, broadly margined with dull whitish; basal half (more or 
less) of bill pale brownish (coral red in life), terminal portion dull 
blackish; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 89-102 (92); 
wing, 52.5-59.5 (55.3); tail, 30.5-35.5 (33); culmen, 14.5-18.5 
(16.6) .2 
Adult female.—Above similar to the adult male, but pileum dusky 
brown, the feathers (especially on forehead) sometimes margined 
with pale rusty brown, and lateral pair of rectrices broadly tipped 
with brownish gray; a broad black suborbital and auricular patch 
and white postocular stripe, as in adult male; under parts pale 
brownish gray or dull grayish white, spotted with metallic bronze- 
green, this predominating laterally; median line of breast and abdo- 
men plain dull grayish white or pale brownish gray; under tail- 
coverts grayish centrally (the shorter ones bronzy or bronze-green) 
broadly margined with dull grayish white; maxilla dull black, man- 
dible pale brownish (reddish in life), with terminal portion dusky; 
iris and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 78-96 (88); wing, 
49-55 (51.9); tail, 30-33.5 (31.3); culmen, 16-18.5 (17.4).° 
Young male.—Pattern of coloration as in adult, but no blue on 
head, and brilliant emerald-green of throat merely indicated; pileum 
dull dusky greenish, the feathers margined with dull tawny, this pre- 
vailing on occiput; chin and upper throat dull grayish white spotted 
with dusky; lower throat metallic emerald-green, the feathers dis- 
tinctly margined with grayish white; prevailing color of rump, super- 
ficially, dull tawny, the upper tail-coverts distinctly margined with 
a Seventeen specimens. b Fifteen specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
lculmen. 
MALES. 
One adult male from Arizona..........0.00. ccc cece cece cee cee cece eee eee e neces 59.5 34.5 18.5 
Ten adult males from Mexico......... 2.2.0.2 0 cece cee cece cece eee eee e eee eee 56.1 33.6 17.2 
Six adult males from Guatemala.............. 02.0220 c0 ecco eee eee eee eee eee 53.2 31.7 15.3 
FEMALES, 
Three adult females from Arizona.............2.22.00. 0200 eec eee eee eee e eee eee 53.8 33.2 17.7 
Eight adult females from Mexico.......-....2-22-2-c0cecceceecececceceesececeees 52.4] BL 17.7 
Four adult females from Guatemala..........-..2.2-.02-.2222ee seen cece eects 50.2 30. 4 16.6 
