598 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
next to middle pair usually glossed, more or less, with bronzy green 
(sometimes mostly of this color), the outer web edged (except 
terminally) with cinnamon-rufous, the next pair sometimes also 
narrowly edged with the same; remiges dark brownish slate or 
dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; chin and throat bright metallic 
reddish purple (usually more reddish than solferino), the feathers 
crossed by a broad subterminal (concealed) bar of dull white, their 
basal portion dusky gray; chest grayish white, passing into very 
pale gray on breast and abdomen; sides and flanks darker grayish, 
tinged (especially the flanks) with pale cinnamon, the sides and 
sides of breast overlaid by metallic bronze-green; femoral tutts 
white; under tail-coverts white with a central area of pale cinna- 
mon or cinnamon-buff (sometimes partly bronze-green); bill dull 
black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 83-96 (90); wing, 
46.5-50.5 (48.4); tail, 30-35 (31.7); exposed culmen, 16-19 (17.6).¢ 
Adult female—Above metallic bronze-green, including middle pair 
of rectrices, the latter sometimes blackish or dusky terminally; 
second rectrix (from middle) metallic bronze-green with terminal 
portion more or less extensively dusky; three outer rectrices, on 
each side, broadly tipped with white, cinnamon-rufous basally (more 
or less extensively), the remaining portion purplish or bronzy black 
with more or less of metallic bronze-green between the blackish sub- 
terminal and cinnamon-rufous basal areas; chin and throat dull 
white, the feathers with small mesial streaks or guttate spots of 
dusky or dusky bronze; chest dull brownish white or buffy grayish 
white, the breast and abdomen similar but, usually, more decidedly 
tinged with buffy; sides and flanks light cinnamon or pale cinnamon- 
rufous; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon or cinnamon-buff (some- 
times partly grayish) centrally, broadly margined with white; 
femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 
83-97 (91); wing, 45.5-52 (49.9); tail, 27-32.5 (30.5); exposed cul- 
men, 17-20 (18.6).° 
2 Nineteen specimens. 5 Sixteen specimens. 
; : . Cul- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. men. 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from western United States.................222 22.2 ecc cece e eee 49.5 32.2 17.7 
Eight adult msgles trom Mexl00 (so oeececewenasexeuse ss vexeeawgdidawar dy cpeceneene 48.6 | 31.3 17.6 
One adult male from Guatentala. ..csccccuscosvssssens ese ceeawiewsssstewneseead 46.5 30.5 16 
FEMALES. 
Ten adult females from western United States.............. 22.022 cece e eee eee 49.9 30.3 18.6 
Six adult females from Mexico.......--.....2.- 20020 cece eee eee eee ee eee eee 49.8 30.7 18.6 
