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tively less of cinnamon-rufous on lateral rectrices, and next to middle 
pair mostly (sometimes wholly) green. 
Adult male.—Forehead metallic reddish purple, varying to violet; 
rest of upper parts, including middle pair of rectrices, rather dull 
metallic green or bronze green; remiges dull brownish slate or 
dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; outermost rectrix entirely 
purplish black, the next with outer web purplish black, inner web 
cinnamon-rufous; third with most of inner web and basal portion 
of outer web cinnamon-rufous, the remainder purplish black; 
fourth purplish black (usually glossed with or passing into dull 
metallic bronze-green terminally), the outer web edged basally 
with cinnamon-rufous; a small postocular (sometimes also a rictal) 
spot of white; chin and throat bright metallic solferino purple, passing 
into violet or violet-blue posteriorly, the chin and anterior portion of 
throat more decidedly reddish purple or purplish red; chest grayish 
white, more decidedly grayish posteriorly; rest of under parts cinna- 
mon-rufous, paler medially, this overlaid, more or less strongly, by 
metallic bronze or greenish bronze; under tail-coverts light cinnamon- 
rufous, sometimes partly white especially at base); femoral tufts 
white; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet grayish brown or dusky; 
length (skins), 83-92 (88); wing, 37-38.5 (37.9); tail, 36-40 (38.4); 
middle rectrices, 12.5-14 (13.2); exposed culmen, 13.5-16 (15.4).% 
Adult female.—Above dull metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, 
still duller on pileum, where becoming dull grayish brown or brownish 
gray on forehead; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green, the 
next. pair similar but with basal portion of outer web (sometimes of 
both webs) cinnamon-rufous, the terminal portion sometimes blackish; 
two outer rectrices (on each side) with basal half, or more, light 
grayish brown, the inner web tinged with light cinnamon-rufous or 
partly of that color, the tip broadly light grayish brown, brownish 
gray, or grayish cinnamon, the subterminal portion (broadly) black; 
third rectrix similar, but with terminal spot smaller and more cinna- 
momeous and basal area more decidedly cinnamomeous; auricular 
region light brownish gray, fading gradually into dull grayish white, 
pale buffy grayish, or cinnamon-buff on chin and throat; chest dull 
grayish white; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous (more or less 
deep), paler medially; femoral tufts white; bill, etc., as in adult 
male; length (skins), 77-78 (77.7); wing, 41-42 (41.4); tail, 27.5- 
29.5 (28.5); middle rectrices, 23.5-26 (25); exposed culmen, 16-17 
(16.6).° 
Young male.—Similar to the adult female, but lateral rectrices 
longer and relatively narrower, with more black on outer webs and 
less on inner webs. 
@ Ten specimens. > Five specimens, 
