BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 603 
adult female possibly not distinguishable from that of 8. fammula, 
but apparently less suffused with pale vinaceous-cinnamon beneath, 
tips to lateral rectrices more whitish, and basal portion of lateral 
rectrices less extensively cinnamon-rufous. 
Adult male-—Above metallic bronze-green, darker and duller on 
pileum; middle pair of rectrices with outer web bronze-green, the 
inner web dusky faintly glossed with bronze-green (sometimes mostly 
bronze-green), both webs broadly edged, except terminally, with 
cinnamon-rufous; other rectrices purplish black, the two (on each 
side) next to middle pair broadly edged (except terminally) with 
cinnamon-rufous,* the two outermost (sometimes second also) with 
a spot of same on terminal portion of inner web; remiges and pri- 
mary coverts purplish dusky or dull brownish slate faintly glossed 
with purplish, the inner secondaries glossed with bronze-green; lores 
dark rusty or chestnut; gorget dull metallic grayish purple or helio- 
trope purple, changing to dull grayish green (or the latter changing 
to dull purplish), the feathers crossed beneath surface with a broad 
bar of cinnamon-buff, separated from the metallic tip by a narrow 
bar of dusky, the base dusky gray; chest dull white tinged with 
cinnamon-buffy, the median portion of breast and abdomen similar 
but darker (more grayish); sides and flanks similar but more suffused 
with pale rusty or cinnamon and (especially on sides of breast) inter- 
mixed with metallic bronze-green; under tail-coverts cinnamon or 
cinnamon-buff margined with pale buff or buffy whitish; bill dull 
black, the mandible paler basally; iris dark brown; feet grayish 
brown or dusky; length (skins), 67-76 (72); wing, 39.5-42 (40.3); 
tail, 27-28.5 (27.7); exposed culmen, 11.5-12.5 (12.1).° 
Adult female.—Similar in coloration of upper parts to the adult 
male, but both webs of middle rectrices metallic bronze-green, the 
next to middle pair bronze-green, passing into black terminally, the 
outer web broadly edged for most of its length with cinnamon-rufous; 
outermost rectrix very broadly tipped with white (the white some- 
times tinged with cinnamon-rufous or buffy), the subterminal portion 
(extensively) black, passing into grayish brown basally, the basal 
portion of shaft usually rufescent; second rectrix (from outside) 
similar, but with basal half (more or less) of inner web cinnamon- 
rufous, the corresponding part of outer web metallic bronze-green; 
third rectrix similar to second, but with basal half (more or less) of 
outer web broadly edged with cinnamon-rufous; chin and throat dull 
«The second and third (from outside) have the inner web also similarly edged. 
b Five specimens. 
¢It is not absolutely certain that the females on which this description is based 
are of this species. They agree, however, with Salvin’s description, and certainly 
are different in the coloration of the tail from an equal number of undoubted females 
of S. flammula. 
