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PH(ETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS VERiECRUCIS Ridgway. 



VERA CRUZ HERMIT. 



Similar to P. I. Jongirostris but tips of lateral rectrices pure white, 

 or merely tinged with buff on inner web. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 150-15S (154); wing, 60-65.5 (62.9); 

 tail, 65-70 (67.9); culmen, 39-42.5 (40.3).« 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; San Andres 

 Tuxtla; Santecomapam ; Buena Vista; Motzorongo) ; Oaxaca (Chima- 

 lapa), and Tabasco (Teapa), 



Phaethornis longirostris (not Ornismya longirnstris Delattre) Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1857, 227 (San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Elliot, 



Ibis, 1873, 5, part (Mexico; synon.; crit.).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xvi, 1892, 273, 663, part (Chimalapa, Oaxaca). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 318, part (Cordova and San Andres Tuxtla, Vera 



Cruz; Chimalapa, Oaxaca). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 377, part 



(Mexico). 

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

 Ph-xthornis longirostris Elliot, Cla^sif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 15, part (Mexico). 

 Phaethornis cephalus (not Trochilus eephalus Bourcier and Mulsant) Gould, Mon. 



Troch., pt. xvi, 1858, text to pi. 19, part (Mexico). 

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



1873, 64, part (Mexico). 

 Phaetornis cephalus D'Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 48, pi. (10), fig. 37. 

 [Phaetornis] ccphale Boucard, Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 1 (Santecomapam 



Vera Cruz; habits). 

 Phaethornis longirostris verxcrucis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 



19, 1910, 54 (Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PH(ETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS MEXICANUS (Hartertj. 



GUERRERO HERMIT. 



Similar to P. I. versecrucis in white margins to rectrices but colora- 

 tion of under parts much tlarker, su})erciliary stripe and anterior por- 

 tion of rictal stripe ochraceous-buff instead of cream-buff, and size 

 decidedly larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 182-187 (185); wing, 67-69.5 (68.1); 

 tail, 83-87 (84.6); culmen, 45.5-47 (46.1).'' 



Southwestern Mexico, in States of Guerrero (Dos Arroyos; Chil- 

 pancingo; Acahuitzotla; Papayo) and western Oaxaca (Pluma). 



Phaethornis longirostris (not Ornismya longirostris Delattre) Hartert(E. and CJ.), 

 Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 21 (Dos Arroyos, near Chilpancingo, Guerrero; crit.). 



Phaethornis meximnus Hartert, Ibis, iii, ser. 7, July, 1897, 425 (Dos Arroyos, 

 near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, s. w. Mexico; coll. Tring Mus.). 



P[haethornis] mexicanus Hartert, Ibis, 1897, 429; Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 

 21 (monogr.). 



[Phaethornis] mexicanus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 99. 



o Four specimens. h Six specimens. 



