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lores pale cinnamon or dull whitish; malar region dull white to pale 
brownish gray or pale brown, forming a more or less conspicuous 
stripe; suborbital and auricular regions.and patch on upper portion 
of side of neck rich dark metallic violet-blue or bluish violet; general 
color of under parts dull grayish brown, the feathers usually more 
or less distinctly edged or margined with paler (forming a somewhat 
streaked appearance), the throat mostly (sometimes wholly) covered 
by a patch of metallic green, this often passing at lower extremity 
into blue or violet-blue; under tail-coverts cinnamon or cinnamon- 
buff, with a subbasal or central spot of light grayish brown or olive; 
femoral tufts (inconspicuous) dull white, tinged with cinnamon; bill 
dull black, the mandible somewhat more brownish, at least basally; 
iris dark brown; feet dusky grayish brown. 
Young.—Similar to adults, but feathers of back, scapulars, hind- 
neck and pileum broadly tipped or terminally margined with rusty 
brown or dull cinnamon, wing-coverts narrowly tipped with the same, 
and (in earlier stage) without any blue on side of head or neck.? 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 99-114 (106); wing, 67.5-76.5 (71.9); 
tail, 36.5—47 (41.6); culmen, 16-20 (17.5).° 
Adult female.—Length (skins), 93-116 (105); wing, 66-76 (69.3); 
tail, 37-45 (40); culmen, 16-18 (16.9).¢ 
Guatemala (Coban, Vera Paz), British Honduras (forest near 
Manatee Lagoon) and southward through Honduras (San Pedro), 
Nicaragua (Chontales), Costa Rica (Escazti; San Pedro de Mojén; 
Bonilla; Miravalles; Boruca), Panama (Calovévera, Veragua), Colom- 
bia (Bogoté; Bonda and Minca, Santa Marta; Rio Dagua; Bucara- 
@ In what are apparently younger birds there is no metallic blue whatever on sides 
of neck, the auricular region being dusky (nonmetallic); in apparently older indi- 
viduals there is a patch of metallic violet-blue on upper side of neck, immediately 
behind the auricular region. 
b Twenty-three specimens. 
¢ Kleven specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
culmen. 
MALES. 
One adult male from Guatemala. ..... 222.0... e ccc cece cee cece eee 74.5 43 20 
One adult male from British Honduras.............0..0.0. 00 .00eecececeeseeeees 71 39.5 17.5 
Ten adult males from Costa Rica. .............2. 2.022 cee eee eect e ee eee eeeeeees 70.6 40.5 16.7 
Six adult males from Colombia... ........22.02.s2502seeeeesessssasseceenseeers 71.8 42.2 17.3 
Five adult males from western Ecuador..........2-...-0220-.2eee eee eee e ees 74.3 43.2 18.7 
FEMALES 
Four adult females from Costa Rica..........222..2-2:0e eee e cece eee eee eee eens 66.5 39.5 16.6 
Two adult females from Colombia............... 22.2. .2 cece eee eect eet eee 66 38 16.5 
Three adult females from western Ecuador............22..--.--2eeeee eee eee eee 72.3 40.2 17.3 
Two adult females from British Guiana.............222-.22- 202s sence eee eee eee 72.5 43.2 18 
