776 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
wide as the black interspaces), the white bars wanting from greater 
part of inner web of third rectrix (from outside); wings black, the 
lesser wing-coverts (except anterior portion of the area) narrowly 
and irregularly barred with white, the greater coverts and secondaries 
finely vermiculated with the same, the longer primaries edged with 
white, especially toward base; loral, orbital, auricular, and malar 
regions, chin, and throat black; chest metallic green or golden green, 
like upper parts; a broad white bar or band across upper ‘breast 
(next to metallic green jugular area); rest of under parts pure deep 
geranium red, the thighs slate-black; bill yellow; naked eyelids 
brown;* iris dark brown;" feet brownish or horn color (in dried 
skins); length (skins), 226-272 (252); wing, 115-138 (126.6): tail, 
127.5-160 (142.6); culmen, 16-18 (16.9); tarsus, 12-16 (14.4); inner 
anterior toe, 11.5-15 (13.4).® 
Adult female—Above plain brown, the color darker (between 
prouts brown and raw umber) on pileum, more tawny or rufescent 
(nearly tawny-olive or russet) on lower rump and upper tail-coverts, 
the middle pair of rectrices chestnut, sharply tipped with black; 
outer web of next two rectrices chestnut tipped with black, but inner 
web wholly brownish black; three outer pairs of rectrices mostly 
black on upper surface, grayish on under surface, rather narrowly 
tipped with white and crossed by a subterminal narrow band or bar 
of black, preceding which the general grayish color is paler distally 
and next to the subterminal black bar more or less vermiculated with 
darker, the outer web whitish gray, with or without minute vermic- 
ulations or freckles, growing darker basally; wing-coverts brown 
(paler and more grayish than color of back) minutely vermiculated 
or freckled with dusky, the secondaries similar but with ground color 
sometimes slightly paler; primaries slate-black or blackish slate con- 
spicuously edged with white, except on shorter proximal and outer- 
most quills; a white orbital ring, broadly interrupted on upper and 
lower eyelids; orbital region otherwise, together with loral, auricular, 
and malar regions, dusky, or dull blackish slate, the chin and throat 
somewhat lighter dull slaty; chest uniform brown, like color of back; 
rest of under parts as in adult male; maxilla blackish, the lower basal 
portion pale yellowish horn color or dull yellowish, the mandible dull 
yellowish (olive-yellow in life);* naked eyelids dusky;¢ iris umber 
brown;¢ feet brownish or dusky (light horn color in life);* length 
(skins), 233-270 (248); wing, 120-136.5 (127.1); tail, 132.5-159 
@ Dearborn. 
b Thirty-five specimens. 
¢ Fresh colors of specimens shot by the writer in Costa Rica. 
