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with white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 94-109 (100); 
wing, 62-70 (65.2); tail, 31-37 (34.1); culmen, 17.5-22 (19).@ 
Immature male.—Essentially like adult male but coloration duller; 
middle rectrices with only basal portion white, the terminal half or 
more being dusky dull metallic greenish or bronzy broadly tipped 
with black; rictal region (more or less extensively) light buffy 
brown or cinnamon.® 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba) and Oaxaca 
(Lana, Choapém) and southward through Guatemala (Guatemala 
City; Chocttém; near Petén), British Honduras (Belize; forest near 
Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (San Pedro), Nicaragua (Greytown; 
Rio San Juan; Chontales), Costa Rica (San Pedro; Guapiles; Bonilla; 
El Hogar; Turrialba; Carrillo; La Vijagua; El General; Bebedero; 
Pozo del Pital; Pozo Azil de Pirris; Boruca), Panama (Divala; 
Volcan de Chiriqui; Cordillera de Tolé; Cordillera del Chucu; Santiago 
de Verdgua; Lion Hill; Paraiso), Colombia (Don Diego, Sierra Nevada, 
Cacagualito, Bonda, Don Amo, and Minca, Santa Marta; Bogota; 
@ Sixteen specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
culmen. 
MALES. 
Three adult males from Guatemala............... sec ence eee eee eee eee e eens 69.3 39.5 18.2 
Five adult males from British Honduras............-.22-02-02220-ceeceeeee eee 67.8 36.4 20.1 
One adult male from Nicaragua...........0.. 22 e cece eee eee ee eee eee eee eens 67 36 18.5 
Ten adult males from Costa Rica : 67.5 37.4 17.8 
Four adult males from Panamé.......-...222-2202 eee eee ee eee eee eee ee see eee eee 67.7 37 19.2 
Five adult males from northeastern Colombia (Santa Marta district)............ 68.4 37.7 20.9 
Five adult males from central Colombia (Bogota) 2 69.2 39 19.7 
Two adult males from Ecuad6r.........-.-.---------2-2+-202+- gas) ‘69.2 40.7 19.7 
Four adult males from eastern Peru.. 
One adult male from British Guiana.. G6 aseseeys 20 
Six adult males from Triniddd..............2.-..2---- 68.9 37.9 20 
Four adult males (F. m. tobagensis c) from Tobago 73.1 44.5 22.7 
FEMALES. 
Ten adult females from Costa Rica 
Two adult females from Panamé..............2...02 cece ee eee ag 64 32 18.7 
Two adult females from Santa Marta district, Colombia. 68.7 35 21.5 
One adult female from Ecuadér 66.5 33 20 
One adult female from Cayenne 64 31 19.5 
One adult female (F. m. tobagensis) from Tobago..........--.--2--2.eee cece eee 70.5 O8cO | sca:ss eee 
b Younger specimens have the dark dull metallic blue of throat and chest con- 
fined to a median stripe, margined along each side by a narrower, ill-defined stripe 
of pale brownish, and there is a stripe of pale buff or cinnamon along middle of back 
and rump. 
¢ Florisuga mellivora tobagensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 
1910, 55 (Tobago; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.). 
81255°—Bull. 50—11——37 
