BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLP] AMERICA. 



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Phaethornis lomjirostris Salvin and Elliot, Ibis, 1873, 5, part (Choctiim, Guate- 

 mala; crit.).— BoucARD, Liiste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 44. — Salvin, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mii8., xvi, 1892, 273, 663, part (Choctum, Guatemala; San Felipe, 

 Brit. Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 

 318, part (San Felipe, British Honduras; Yzabal, Choctum, and track to 

 Peten, Guatemala). 



\Phaethornis\ longirostris Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 78, part. 



PhsLthornus longirostris Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 

 (Cayo, British Honduras). 



Phoethornis longirostris longirostris Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 

 no. 1258, Jan., 1902, 312, in text, 313, part. 



Phaethornis longirostris longirostris Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, July, 

 1903, 144 (Ceiba, n. Honduras). 



Phaethornis cephalus (not Trochilus eephalus Bourcier and Mulsant) Sclater and 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 126 (Guatemala).— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 204 (Guatemala). 



[Phaetornis] cephale Boucard, Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 1, part (Coban, Guate- 

 mala; habits). 



Phaethornis cephalus Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xvi, 1858 (vol. i, ]8()1), pi. 19, part 

 (Guatemala). 



Phaetornis cephalus Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 1, 

 1873, 64, part (Guatemala). 



PHCETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS CEPHALUS (Bourcier and Mulsant). 



NICARAGUAN HERMIT. 



Similar in coloration to P. I. longirostris but coloration darker, the 

 under parts usually distinctly, tlioug;li faintly, barred with brownish 

 gray. 



Adult male.— hen^^th (skins), 127-165 (150); win^^, 58-66.5 (61.9); 

 tail, 61-75 (67); culmen, 36.5-44 (;39.8).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 136-154 (147); wing, 57.5-62.5 

 (60.2); tail, 63.5-70 (66.3); culmen, 37-41.5 (38.5).'' 



Honduras (Santa Ana), Nicaragua (Rio San Juan; Chontales; 

 Rio Escondido; San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua), Costa Rica (San 

 Jose; Naranjo de Cartago; La Balsa; Palmar; Jimenez; EI Hogar; 

 Guapiles; Rio Sicsola; Cuabre; La Vijagua; Tenorio; Volcan de 

 Miravalles; Boruca; Pozo del Pital; Pozo Azul de Pirn's; Pozo del 



« Thirty spccimen^ 



b Eleven specimens. 



81255°— Bull. 50—11- 



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