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black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 89-109 (99); wing, 
52.5-59 (55.7); tail, 36-45.5 (40); culmen, 17.5-20 (19).¢ 
Adult female.—Above metallic green, duller and more bronzy on 
pileum (where feathers show more or less of the dusky grayish of 
basal portion), brighter and more bluish green posteriorly; middle 
pair of rectrices darker metallic green or bluish green, sometimes 
passing into blackish terminally; other rectrices glossy blue-black, or 
black glossed with steel blue (sometimes slightly violaceous), the 
passing into metallic green basally, two outermost broadly tipped 
with pale brownish gray or dull grayish white; remiges dusky brownish 
slate, faintly glossed with violaceous; malar region, chin, throat, and 
chest very pale brownish gray; ° breast and abdomen deeper brown- 
ish gray, the sides and flanks spotted with metallic green; under tail- 
coverts, anal region, and femoral tufts white; bill dull black, the 
mandible sometimes more brownish; iris dark brown; feet grayish 
brown or dusky; length (skins), 78-101 (92); wing, 50-53.5 (51.9); 
tail, 29-33 (30.8); culmen, 17.5-21 (18.1).° 
Immature male.—Above similar to the adult female, but tail as in 
adult male; chin, throat, and chest sooty grayish, glossed with bronze- 
green, paler gray feathers, with a terminal spot of metallic yellowish 
emerald green, indicating the adult plumage, appearing along the 
median line; breast and abdomen darker sooty gray, varying to nearly 
sooty brown, the metallic violet-blue feathers of the adult dress 
appearing first on anterior or median portions; under tail-coverts as 
in adult male. 
Colombia (Bogota; Valparaiso, Ofiaca, El Libano, Don Amo, Las 
Nubes, Minca, San José, Pueblo Viejo, Chinchicua Valley, San Miguél, 
Bonda, Palomina, and Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta; Herradura; Buca- 
a Twenty-two specimens. 
b About no. 9 or no. 10 in tone, but much browner, approaching drab-gray in hue. 
¢ Twelve specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
culmen. 
MALES. 
‘Ten adult males from central Colombia (Bogot&)..........-.---------2-e-eeee ee 54.9 41.6 18.3 
Ten adult males from northeastern Colombia (Santa Marta).......-.-.....----- 56.5 38.6 18.5 
Two adult males from Panamé...........2....00.0eeee eee eee ee ence ee eee eeee eee 54.7] 39 19.5 
Two adult males of 7. c. venusta from Panamé..........--.22- 22sec eee ee eee 52 37.2 18.2 
Ten adult males of 7’. c. venusta from Costa Rica.........2-2-. 22-2. ee eee eee eee 54.5 40.2 19.9 
FEMALES. 
Four adult females from Bogoté.........-.22-ceeeecee ee ee ene ete nc eee eeceneceeer 51.7 31.7 18.7 
Eight adult females from Santa Marta. ..........-..-2---0ce cece cece cece ee ee eee 61.9 30.4 18.9 
Three adult females of T. c. venusta from Panamé. . a 49 28.7 20.8 
Ten adult females of T. c. venusta from Costa Rica.........-.---.--.--0--------- 49.8 30 20.8 
