BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 529 
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CYANOPHAIA BICOLOR (Gmelin). 
WAGLER'S WOOD-NYMPH. 
Adult male.—Head, all round (including forehead, crown, loral and 
malar regions, chin, and upper throat), dark metallic violet-blue (hya- 
cinth blue), the posterior portion of crown more greenish blue, passing 
into bluish green on occiput, this into bronze-green on hindneck, back, 
scapulars, wing-coverts, and upper rump, the lower rump and shorter 
upper tail-coverts more bluish green, the longer upper tail-coverts 
dark greenish steel blue; tail wholly deep or dark steel blue; remiges 
glossy bluish black, or black glossed with violet-blue; lower throat 
and chest bright metallic bluish green, passing into rather dark 
bronze-green or more golden green on rest of under parts; femoral 
tufts (small) pale gray or grayish white; maxilla dull black, mandible 
dull black for terminal half (more or less), pale brownish (pinkish or 
reddish in life?) basally; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 
95-108 (102); wing, 58-62.5 (60.1); tail, 34.5-42.5 (38.1); culmen, 
15.5-18.5 (17).¢ 
Adult female.—Pileum metallic green (varying from bluish green to 
slightly bronzy green); hindneck, upper back, scapulars, and wing- 
coverts golden bronze or golden green, passing through more greenish 
bronze on lower back and rump into golden green on upper tail- 
coverts; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze, passing into bluish 
green or greenish blue terminally; second, third, and fourth pairs of 
rectrices dark greenish steel blue, metallic bronze basally, the third 
slightly, the fourth broadly, tipped with pale brownish gray; fifth 
(outermost) pair similar to fourth but pale grayish tip still broader 
and basal portion brownish gray instead of bronzy; remiges dusky 
slate glossed with violet or violet-blue; loral and auricular regions 
dusky; malar region and under parts pale brownish gray, passing into 
golden green or bronze on sides and flanks; bill, etc., as in adult male, 
but mandible wholly dusky; length (skins), 91-108 (101); wing, 
55.5-58 (56.7); tail, 32.5-388 (35.6); culmen, 17-18 (17.7).° 
@ Fourteen specimens. 
b Hight specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. pone 
culmen, 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from Dominica............2.2..22-0 cece eee eee eee e ence ee eeee 60.5 38.1 16.6 
Two adult males from Martinique.................2-.02 02-22 ee ee eee eee eee eee 59 38 18 
Two adult males said to befrom Brazil (but probably not).......-----..-------- 59.2 38.2 17.7 
FEMALES. 
Six adult females from Dominica..........-...---0------- ee eee ree eee cece eee 57 36.3 17.6 
One adult female from Martinique.........-...---..--------eee secre eee eee 56 34.5 18.5 
One adult female said to be from Brazil......-....------2---:02e22efeeneee eens 56 32.5 |a..----- 
81255°—Bull. 50—11——34 
