566 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult female—Above, including four middle rectrices, metallic 
bronze, bronze-green, or golden green, the pileum duller (sometimes 
dull grayish brown anteriorly); three outer rectrices (on each side) with 
basal half (more or less) bronze-green, then black, the tip brownish 
gray or grayish brown, this broadest on outermost rectrix, much 
smaller on third;* remiges as in adult male; a postocular streak of 
white and below this a dusky auricular area; under parts brown- 
ish gray or buffy grayish, glossed laterally with metallic bronze or 
bronze-green, the feathers of chin and throat margined with paler or 
with dull grayish white, producing a squamate appearance; femoral 
and anal tufts white; under tail-coverts brownish gray (sometimes 
glossed with bronze-green) margined with pale brownish gray or 
dull whitish; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 110-125 (119); 
wing, 66.5-70.5 (68. 7); tail, 37.5-41.5 (39. 4); culmen, 27-30.5 (29.1).® 
Immature ile Intermediate in coloration between the adult 
male and adult female, the crown partly violet, the throat only 
partly green, and chest slightly intermixed with black, the tail 
exactly intermediate, both in form and color. 
Young female.—Similar to the adult female, but feathers of upper 
parts narrowly margined terminally with pale grayish buffy and 
under parts slightly darker and suffused, more or less, with pale 
brownish buffy. 
Southern Arizona (Chirac4hua, Santa Rita, Huachuca, Santa 
Catalina, and San Luis Mountains; Mount Graham; Camp Grant; 
Carr’s Cafion) and southward through highlands of Mexico, in States 
of Chihuéhua, Tamaulipas (Miquihuana; Boque Negro), San Luis 
Potosi (Sierra San Luis Potosi), Guanajuato, Durango (Rancho 
Baill6n; Arroyo del Buéy), Jalisco (Sierra de Bolafios; Sierra de 
Valparaiso; Sierra de Nayarit), Michoacén (Patzcuaro; Mount 
@ Sometimes the fourth rectrix also has a small grayish terminal spot, the subter- 
minal portion being blackish. 
b Fourteen specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. rec- | posed 
trices. |culmen. 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from southern Arizona.......... ei chats incerta days oeyeeteye 72.8 42 36.2 27.2 
Ten adult males from Vera Cruz and Puebla has 72.4 43.1 36.6 26.7 
Five adult males from Oaxaca..... ----| 73.8 43.2 36.6. 27 
Six adult males from Guatemala 73.5 43.7 36.7 29.4 
FEMALES. 
Ten adult females from southern Arizona..........-... 2-2-2222. seen eee 68.7 89.2) Howesenios 29 
Two adult females from Mexico and Morelos.........-.---.--+--22-200- 67.7 39.2 |.......- 27 
Two adult females from Oaxaca.......-..----- 2-2-0 e eee eee ee eee ences 69.5 MOS2hs cccenee 29.7 
One adult female from Guatemala.........-...-.---.0- 2222 eee e eee e ee eee 68.7 39.4. loos seuss 29.1 
