324 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Phocthornis longirostris mexicanus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 



no. 1258, Jan., 1902, 312 in text, 313 (s. Mexico). 

 P[hoethornis] l[ongirostris] mexicanus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, 



1910, 54, in text. 



PHCETHORNIS ANTHOPHILUS HYALINUS (Bangs). 



ISLAND HERMIT. 



Similar to P. a. anthopMlus but green of upper parts deeper and 

 less bronzy, and feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts less broadly 

 margined with brownish buffy ; averaging slightly larger (except tail.) 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum plain dusky (nearly clove brown); 

 hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts metallic 

 green (nearest bice green), slightly tinged with bronze, the feathers 

 very narrowly and indistinctly margined terminally with pale brown- 

 ish buffy, except on upper tail-coverts, where these markings are 

 broader and more distinct; tail metallic bluish green (French green), 

 crossed subterminally by a broad band of black, the middle pair of 

 rectrices with narrowed and elongated portion white apically, dull 

 grayish basally, the other rectrices with median portion of tip dull 

 gray and lateral portions white; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with 

 violaceous; a broad postocular or supra- auricular elongated spot of 

 dull brownish white; loral, orbital, and auricular regions black; 

 rictal and malar regions dull white or buffy white; chin and throat 

 buffy grayish, indistinctly streaked with pale buffy or buffy whitish; 

 rest of under parts dull brownish white, deeper and suffused with 

 brownish buff on sides, the flanks distinctly buffy; maxilla black, 

 mandible pale dull yellowish or buffy (in dried skins) ; iris dark brown; 

 feet light brownish (in dried skins), the claws dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 135-139 (138.5); wing, 58.5-61.5 

 (59.2); tail, 55-58.5 (56.5); culmen, 35-36.5 (35.7).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 138; wing, 55.5-58.5 (57); tail, 

 58.5; culmen, 33-34.5 (33.7).^ 



San Miguel Island, Ba}^ of Panama. 



Phaethornis hyalinus Bangs, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1901, 27 (San Miguel Island, Bay 

 of Panama; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1905, 149 (San Miguel I.). 



PHGETHORNIS ADOLPHI ADOLPHI Gould. 



BOUCARD'S HERMIT. 



Adult male. — Above rather dull metallic 1)ronze or greenish bronze, 

 darker and duller on pileum; lower rump and upper tail-coverts 



a Four specimens. 



& Two specimens. 



Specimens of P. a. antho'pMlus measure as follows: Four adult males, length (skins), 

 128-153 (136); wing, 54.5-Gl (57.7); tail, 56-59.5 (58); culmen, 30.5-36 (34.5); one 

 adult female, length (skin), 132; wing, 54; tail, 56; culmen, 33. 



