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454 bars), and lateral rectrices narrowly tipped with pale buffy grayish, and with bronzy border to middle rectrices broader.

Young male. — Similar to the immature male, but violet-blue of crown replaced by dark metallic green, and under parts pale grayish, more or less spotted (except on abdomen and anal region) with metallic green; length (skin), 87-90 (88.5); wing, 51-54.5 (52); tail, 29-31 (29.2); exposed culmen, 17-18 (17.7).

Adult female. — Above, including forehead and crown, metallic grass green; remiges blackish slate, faintly glossed with violaceous; middle rectrices dull metallic green proximally passing into dull bronze terminally; next pair similar but with a wedge-shaped median space of chestnut for proximal two-thirds, the remaining rectrices with the chestnut area increasing in width (but not in length) toward outermost, which is black subterminally and tipped with a diamond- shaped spot of pale brownish buff or dull brownish white, the next two rectrices (on each side) with a similar but successively smaller and more cuneate terminal spot; malar region, chin, throat, and rest of under parts dull white, or grayish white, the malar region, chin and throat, with small spots of grayish (paler and less distinct on chin and throat), the sides and flanks spotted with metallic green, especially on sides of breast, where the spots are larger and partly coalesced; under tail-coverts metallic green with basal portion white, the specialized median tuft entirely white, as in adult male; length (skin), 81; wing, 47.5; tail, 25.5; exposed culmen, 19.

Cerro Azúl, Eastern Panamá, 3,000 ft. alt.

 Genus ANTHRACOTHORAX Boie.

Rather large Trochilidæ (length about 110-120 mm.), with broad, rounded or emarginate tail more than half as long as wing, bill 