620 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
purplish red), hindneck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump 
metallic bronze-green, the upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rec- 
trices similar but usually less bronzy, or more bluish, green; tail 
(except middle pair of rectrices) dark grayish, faintly glossed with 
greenish bronze, the rectrices blackish terminally and medially; 
remiges brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; chest 
pale brownish gray or dull grayish white, the feathers darker brown- 
ish gray beneath surface; rest of under parts deeper grayish, strongly 
glossed with metallic bronze-green laterally, the feathers more or less 
distinctly margined with paler grayish; femoral tufts and conspicuous 
tuft on each side of rump white; under tail-coverts brownish gray 
glossed with bronze-green or greenish bronze (especially on shorter 
coverts) and broadly margined with pale gray or grayish white; bill 
dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 90-102 (96); 
wing, 48.5-51 (49.7); tail, 30.5-32.5 (31.3); middle rectrices, 23.5— 
25.5 (24.4); exposed culmen, 17.5-20 (18.2). 
Adult female—Above metallic bronze or bronze-green, duller on 
pileum, the forehead sometimes dull grayish brown; middle pair of 
rectrices metallic green or bronze-green, sometimes dusky terminally, 
the next pair similar, but with terminal portion (broadly) blackish; 
third pair similar to second, but more extensively blackish terminally 
and narrowly tipped with white; two outer pairs with basal half 
(more or less) brownish gray, the tip pale brownish gray or dull 
grayish white (broader on outermost rectrix), the intermediate (sub- 
terminal) portion black; remiges brownish slate or dusky, faintly 
glossed with purplish; chin and throat pale brownish gray or dull 
grayish white, the center of throat usually with an admixture of 
metallic red or purplish red feathers, sometimes with a considerable 
patch of metallic reddish; the lower throat, at least, with mesial 
guttate spots or broad streaks of dusky grayish brown or dull bronzy; 
rest of under parts as in the adult male, but slightly paler and less 
extensively glossed with metallic greenish; bill, etc., as in adult 
male; length (skins), 84-99 (91); wing, 48-51 (49.6); taily 25-28.5 
(27.2); exposed culmen, 17-22 (18.8).¢ 
Young male.—Similar to the adult female, but tail less rounded, 
lateral rectrices with dark subterminal portion duller blackish and 
less sharply contrasted with dull grayish of basal portion, feathers of 
upper parts very narrowly and indistinctly margined with pale 
buffy grayish and (at least older individuals) with metallic purplish 
red feathers on crown as well as on throat. 
Young female.—Similar to the adult female, but feathers of upper 
parts narrowly margined with pale brownish or dull buffy and throat 
without metallic red feathers. 
@ Ten specimens, 
