BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 787 
portion black, for the most part barred with white, the outermost 
rectrix with the outer web barred for whole length (but basally the 
white bars not reaching to shaft), the inner web also barred for 
greater part, but the white bars becoming gradually narrower and 
shorter (from edge of web) proximally, the third rectrix (from out- 
side) with outer web barred for more than half its length but the 
inner web with not more than one or two complete bars (often with 
none at all)—the white bars continuous (involving the shaft) on the 
subterminal portion of two outer rectrices and there nearly (some- 
times quite) equal in width to the black interspaces; wing-coverts 
and secondaries minutely vermiculated with black and white; 
primaries dull black, the longer ones edged with white for basal half 
or more; chest metallic bluish green, blue, or violet-blue, rarely black, 
glossed, more or less, with metallic bluish green or blue; rest of under 
parts rich pure orange-yellow or yellowish orange (cadmium yellow 
to orange),* paler, sometimes slightly intermixed with whitish, along 
anterior margin (next to metallic blue of chest), the outer portion of 
sides and flanks gray, tinged or washed with orange-yellow, the 
thighs and tarsal feathers black; bill pale yellowish or grayish in 
dried skins, pale olive-gray or dull glaucous ° or ashy blue ¢ in life; 
naked orbital ring orange-yellow,? like color of abdomen; iris dark 
brown;? feet gray ® or plumbeous;° length (skins), 214-254 (229); 
wing, 110-134 (121.1); tail, 112-135 (122.6); culmen, 15-18.5 (16.6); 
tarsus, 12.5-15 (13.4); inner anterior toe, 12-15 (18.5).¢ 
Adult female.—Upper parts (except wings) plain slate color, darker 
(blackish slate) on pileum, the middle rectrices abruptly and rather 
broadly tipped with black; a broad white orbital ring, interrupted 
on upper and lower eyelids; wings black, or slate-black, the wing- 
coverts and secondaries narrowly barred with white transverse lines 
(these several times narrower than the broad black interspaces), the 
longer primaries edged with white; three lateral rectrices with inner 
web black tipped with white, the latter extending, wedge-like, for a 
greater or less distance next to shaft, the outer web broadly barred 
with white (for nearly entire length of outermost, for about one-third 
the length of third rectrix); sides of head and neck, chin, throat, and 
chest plain slate color or blackish slate; outer portion of sides and 
flanks lighter slate color or slate-gray, tinged with orange-yellow; 
tibial and tarsal feathers black; rest of under parts orange-yellow, 
paler (usually. somewhat intermixed with white) along anterior 
margin; bill light grayish or buffy in dried skins, the maxilla some- 
times partly blackish; iris dark brown; feet dusky horn color or 
brownish in dried skins, grayish in life; length (skins), 213-247 (231); 
@ Of the author’s ‘‘Nomenclature of Colors.’’ 
b Fresh colors of specimens shot by the writer in Costa Rica. 
¢ According to Sumichrast. 
@ Fifty-three specimens. 
