320 liEl'Olt! OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



RANGE. — Table-lands of Guatemala and Mexico; north to southern 

 Arizona. 



Sp. Char. — Adult male with crown rich royal purple or hyacinth- 

 blue, throat glittering emerald-green, chest black glossed with bronze 

 or bronze-green, wing-coverts and lower back bronze-green, and tail 

 uniform, bronzy ; female and young bronzy-green or bronzy above, dull 

 grayish beneath, more or less spotted with bronze on throat and sides ; 

 outer tail feathers black subterminally, the exterior two to four tipped 

 with pale gray or grayish white : length about 4.50-5.00 inches. 



Adult male (No. 105650, Puebla, Mexico, September, 1884; Prof. F. 

 Ferrari-Perez): Forehead dull blackish, with a faint dull green gloss; 

 crown rich metallic royal purple varying to hyacinth-blue, bordered 

 laterally and posteriorly by metallic bronze- green (appearing velvety 

 black when viewed from in front); hind neck, back, scapulars, wing- 

 coverts, rump, and upper tail coverts metallic bronze-green or greenish 

 bronze; tail uniform deep greenish bronze (more decidedly greenish on 

 middle leathers; remiges dull brownish slate or grayish brown, with a 

 very faint purple gloss. Gorget (including whole throat, chin, and malar 

 region, and extending back much farther laterally than medially) bril- 

 liantly metallic yellowish emerald-green, changing to bluish ("beryl") 

 green ; chest, breast, and upper median portion of belly deep velvety 

 black when viewed from in front, but metallic greenish bronze when 

 viewed from behind ; flanks and lower belly dull grayish brown glossed 

 with greenish bronze; under tail-coverts paler grayish brown, indis- 

 tinctly margined with pale dull buff; downy femoral tufts white. 

 Lores deep black ; a white spot at posterior angle of the eye. Bill 

 entirely deep black ; feet dusky. Length (skin), 4.75; wing, 2.90; tail, 

 1.90 (middle feathers, 1.55) ; exposed culmen, 1.00. 



Adult female (No. 105700, Jalapa, Mexico; Prof. F. Ferrari-Perez) : 

 Above bright green, tinged with bronze, becoming duller on top of 

 head, where passing into dull dusky brownish gray on forehead ; tail- 

 feathers (except middle pair) bronze green basally, black subterminally, 

 and pale brownish gray terminally, the latter color, also the black, 

 most extensive on the outer feather; remiges uniform slate-brown, 

 very faintly glossed with purple, the tertials with very narrow and 

 inconspicuous terminal margins of white. Lores dusky, with an 

 obliquely horizontal bar of white on the lower portion ; a distinct 

 white spot behind the eye. Malar region, chin, and throat dull white, 

 the feathers light brown medially, forming rather distinct stripes, con- 

 verging on the chin ; sides of head beneath eyes (including auriculars), 

 sides of neck, and lateral portions of the body beneath, light brownish 

 gray, the feathers indistinctly margined with whitish, and those on the 

 sides of the breast faintly washed with bronze; under tail-coverts pale 

 brownish gray bordered with white; middle ot belly and median line of 

 breast and chest dull white; downy femoral tufts white. Bill black, 

 the lower mandible more brownish, except the terminal portion. Wing, 



