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black, more or less distinctly margined with grayish white; femoral 
tufts and very inconspicuous (mostly concealed) tuft between sides 
and upper rump grayish white; bill black; iris dark brown; feet 
dusky; length (skins), 113-127 (120); wing, 73.5-81 (77.2); tail, 
45-51.5 (47.5); culmen, 15-19 (17.9).¢ 
Adult female—Above similar to the adult male, but the green 
slightly more bronzy, especially on pileum; rufous-chestnut of 
remiges and greater wing-coverts more restricted, the dusky pur- 
plish or bronzy brown proportionally more extended; lateral rectrices 
tipped, more or less broadly, with brownish gray, all the rectrices 
except middle pair narrowly edged with the same; under parts deep 
sooty brown (dark broccoli or hair brown), the chest usually tinged 
with buffy brown or cinnamon, the sides and flanks glossed or 
spotted with metallic green, the breast sometimes faintly glossed 
with bluish green or greenish blue, the throat often with an admix- 
ture of metallic reddish purple feathers; femoral tufts white, as in 
adult male; under tail-coverts grayish dusky or sooty, more or less 
distinctly margined with whitish; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 
(skins), 97-113 (109); wing, 64-67.5 (66.2); tail, 40-44 (41.7); 
culmen, 15.5-18.5 (16.7).° 
Highlands of southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; 
Coatepec; Jico; Cérdova; Orizaba; Miradér; Cofre de Perote), Mexico 
(“near City of Mexico’’), Guerrero (Chilpancingo; Omilteme), Oaxaca 
(La Parada; Tonaguia; Toténtepec; Mount Zempodaltepec; near 
Oaxaca City) and Chiapas (San Cristébal) and Guatemala (Santa 
Maria and San Martin, Quezaltenango; El Rincén, San Marcos; 
Calderas, Volcan de Fuego; Volein de Agua; Chilasco; Coban; 
Cajabén; Guatemala City; above Tecp4m). 
O[rnismya] rhami Lesson, Rev. Zool., i, 1838, 315 (Mexico). 
Ornysmia rhami DELaTrRE and Lesson, Rev. Zool., ii, 1839, 13. 
M[ellisuga] rhami Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 112. 
[Lampornis] rhami Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72 (Mexico). 
[Delatiria] rhamt Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 353. 
« Twenty-three specimens. b Nine specimens. 
5 Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
lculmen. 
MALES. 
Seven adult males from State of Vera Cruz........2-.-2-0c0ecceeececaeeeeeaees 77.3 47.3 17.3 
Seven adult males from State of Oaxaca.....--------- 2-2 eee eee eee eee eee eee 76.4 46.7 17.9 
Nine adult males from State of Chiapas (1) and Guatemala (8).................. 97.8 48.4 18.2 
. TEMALES. 
Five adult females from southern Mexico (Vera Cruz and Oaxaca).............. 66.3 41.9 16.5 
Four adult females from Guatemala. .......-.-.0.. eee eee eee eee eect eee wee ene 66 41.5 16.9 
