BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Coloration. — Plumage in general soft and blended; coloration plain 

 dusky bronze-green (sometimes black on under parts), briglitest on 

 posterior upper parts, the upper tail-coverts usually bluish; tail 

 black, the rectrices usually tipped with dull grayish. Adult males 

 with a frontal patch of bright metallic green, blue, or violet, the 

 feathers scale-like. 



Range. — Costa Rica to Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, in moun- 

 tams. (Four species.) 



HEMISTEPHANIA VERAGUENSIS (Salvin). 



VERAGTTAN LANCE-BILL. 



Adult male. — Forehead briglit metallic green or bluish green 

 (emerald green to viritlian) ; crown, occiput, and hindneck dark 

 bronze (varying from greenish to coppery); back, scapulars, rump, 

 and lesser wing-coverts rather dark metallic green (darlv parrot green 

 to bottle green); upper tail-coverts dark metallic greenish blue or 

 bluish green (indigo to nearly myrtle green) ; tail black, faintly 

 glossed with greenish, the rectrices (except middle pair) tipped with 

 deep brownish gray; larger wing-coverts dull black more or less 

 glossed with metallic green, especially at tip; remiges blackish slate 

 or slate-black, faintly glossed with purplish blue; chin and throat 

 dark sooty gray or dusky, faintly glossed with green or bluish green ; 

 under tail-coverts sooty gray or dusky, more or less glossed with 

 metallic bluish; femoral tufts grayish white; rest of under parts 

 rather dull metallic bronze-green, the feathers deep sooty gray 

 beneath surface; bill dull black; irife dark brown; feet light brown- 

 ish (in dried skins), claws blackish; length (skins), 110-117 (116); 

 wing, 57-60.5 (58.8); tail, 30.5-33.5 (32.8); culmen, 33.5-37 (35.2). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but forehead dusky 

 bronze, like rest of pileum, instead of greenish, and general coloration 

 slightly duller, especially the under parts; length (skins), 113-116 

 (114);' wing, 54.5-00.5 (56.7); tail, 30-32 (31.4); culmen, 33-35 

 (34.3).^ 



« Eight specimens. 



^ Six epecimens. 



Looality. 



MALES. 



Six adult males from Costa Rica 58.7 33.3 35.6 



Two adult males from Paiiam A 59.2 31.2 34.2 



FEMAMS. 



Four adult females from Costa Rica 57.1 31.2 34.8 



Two adult females from PanamA 55. 7 31. 7 33. 5 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



