BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 753 
and upper rump bright metallic green or bluish green, usually inter- 
mixed with violet-blue, passing into rich violet-blue or bluish violet 
on upper margin of back and on lower rump and upper tail-coverts; 
middle rectrices rather dark metallic bluish green to violet-blue, 
abruptly tipped with black, the inner web of second and third rec- 
trices (from middle) wholly black; lateral rectrices extensively white 
terminally, the white on third (from outside) occupying about ter- 
minal third to terminal half (the white area usually smaller on inner 
than on outer web), the outermost rectrix with whole of the exposed 
portion white, the black being confined to a small area, concealed by 
under tail-coverts; wings (except anterior lesser coverts) uniform 
black, the longer primaries edged with white basally; sides of head, 
chin, throat, chest, and upper breast dull black or sooty black, the 
lower chest and upper breast usually glossed, more or less, with 
violet-blue, especially laterally ; rest of under parts bright pure reddish 
orange or orange-red (flame scarlet to between flame scarlet and 
saturn red), the tibial and tarsal feathers sooty black; bill (in dried 
skins) pale grayish yellow or glaucous-whitish, sometimes darker 
(grayish) on mandible and lower basal portion of maxilla; feet horn 
color (Gn dried skins); length (skins), 263-298 (282); wing, 142-153 
(146.5); tail, 147-172.5 (155.9); culmen, 21.5-25 (23.4); tarsus, 
12.5-15 (14.2); inner anterior toe, 13-16 (14.4).¢ 
Adult female.—Above plain slate color or dark slate-gray, the four 
middle rectrices darker (blackish slate or sooty slate), narrowly tipped 
with black; wings black, the wing-coverts and secondaries very nar- 
rowly barred with white (these narrow white transverse lines many 
times narrower than the black interspaces), the longer primaries 
edged with white basally and, usually, specked or dotted with white 
distally or subterminally; lateral rectrices black, tipped with white 
(the white tip from about 2-9 mm. wide), the remaining portion 
narrowly barred with white (white bars several times narrower than 
the black interspaces) for distal portion and on greater part of outer 
web; lores and orbital region blackish; sides of head and neck, chin, 
throat, chest, whole breast, sides, and flanks uniform slate-gray or 
grayish slate, gradually darkening into the color of pileum, etc., 
somewhat paler along posterior margin, where sometimes faintly 
barred with still paler grayish and tipped with orange-pinkish; 
abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts reddish orange (clear 
orange-chrome to saturn red or light flame scarlet), the flanks more 
or less strongly tinged or intermixed with the same, the feathers of 
tibia and tarsus dark sooty slate; maxilla black, with lower basal 
portion, together with mandible, grayish (in dried skins); feet as in 
« Kighteen specimens, 
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