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glossed with violaceous, the middle rectrices more slaty but much 
color tipped with black; wings blackish slate or sooty slate, the 
coverts and secondaries minutely freckled with paler, the longer pri- 
maries edged with white basally; maxilla black, with extreme basal 
lower portion, together with mandible, orange; feet as in adult male; 
length (skins), 294-353 (319); wing, 165-185.5 (174.1); tail, 160.5- 
186 (171.9); culmen, 23-25.5 (24.2); tarsus, 15-17.5 (16.2); inner 
anterior toe, 16.5-19 (17.5).¢ 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult male, but lateral rectrices 
tipped with white and narrowly barred on at least distal portion of 
outer web and, usually, on distal portion of inner web (except on 
third from outside) with white, middle rectrices much duller metallic 
bronze-green and without black tip, secondaries (at least distal ones) 
spotted or mottled with dull white or buffy white along edges, and 
bill more brownish orange or yellowish. 
Immature female.—Similar to the adult female, but lateral rectrices 
and secondaries marked with white, as in immature male. 
Young (nestling)..—Above plain tawny-brown (near to tawny- 
olive), slightly darker on pileum, passing into tawny on upper tail- 
coverts; general color of wings dull black, except on coverts and 
proximal secondaries, where the prevailing color is buff, broken by 
irregular bars of black, the buff forming very large roundish spots on 
proximal greater coverts and terminal portion of proximal seconda- 
@ Twenty-four specimens. 
7 - Cul Toner 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. an er Tarsus.| ante- 
a rior toe. 
MALES. 
Two adult males from Vera Cruz...-....-.----2-----e2eee eee 175.7 | 174.7 27 16.5 18.5 
Five adult males from Chiapas (2), Guatemala (2), and Hon- 
CUPAS CL): scctisiinsdicrreisee etiowmdeaddatdoteaetseWedenasediard 179.4] 176.7 25.5 16.5 18.2 
Ten adult males from Costa Rica..............22--2-----e20e-- 172.5 | 169.9 24.3 16.6 17.7 
Eleven adult males from Panamé.............+.---+-2-+00-2-+- 170.6 | 168.9 24.1 16.1 17.3 
FEMALES. 
Four adult females from Vera Cruz (2), Oaxaca (1), and Cam- 
POCO) gees er ecee seatnn nae ee severe wate elem cents 181.6} 177.2] 25.2] 17 17.7 
Three adult females from Guatemala (2) and Honduras (1)..... 179.7 | 179.2 24.7 16.3 17.5 
Ten adult females from Costa Rica...........-.---.---------0+ 172.9 | 170.4 23.9 16.3 17.3 
Seven adult females from Panam4............---.---22--e-0e-- 169.2 | 167.5 23.9 15.7 17.6 
Specimens from eastern Panamé, are smaller than those from Verfgua and Chiriquf, 
a male and female from Colén being the smallest in the entire series, their measure- 
ments being as follows: Adult male: Wing, 163; tail, 165; culmen, 23; tarsus, 17; 
inner anterior toe, 17. Adult female: Wing, 165; tail, 175; culmen, 24; tarsus, 16.5; 
inner anterior toe, 17.5. 
b Described from no. 155132, coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus. (Biol. Surv. Coll.), mountains near 
Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, June 16, 1895; Nelson and Goldman. 
