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plain chestnut; tail metallic bronze or greenish bronze, tlie rectrices 

 broatlly tipjicd with pale chestnut or cinnamon-rufous, paler on 

 middle })iur, wliich are sometimes nearly wliite terminally; remiges 

 dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; sul)orbital and auricular 

 regions dusky, margined above by an indistinct supra-auricular 

 streak of cinnamon and below (anteriorly) by a more distinct rictal 

 streak of the same; chin, throat, and chest light dull grayish cinna- 

 mon or Isabella color, passing on other lower parts into pale cinna- 

 mon-rufous; bill dull black, the l)asal half (more or less) of mandible 

 dull yellowish (yellow in life); iris dark brown; feet dull yellowish 

 (flesh colored or whitish in life); length (skins), 91-98 (95); wing, 

 38.5-42 (39.5); tail, 33-37.5 (35.4); culmen, 21-22.5 (21.7).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but chin, throat, and 

 chest pale cinnamon-rufous or j)ale cinnamon, sometimes c[uite con- 

 color with posterior under parts; length (skins), 92-99 (94); wing, 

 37; tail, 33-35 (34); culmen, 21-22 (21.5).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Tospam, 

 near Cordova; Playa Aicente; Jalapa; San Andres Tiixtla; Buena 

 Vista; Pasa Nueva), Oaxaca (Teotalcingo), Tabasco (Frontera), and 

 Chiapas (Palenque). 



Phaethornis adolphi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Sor. Lond., 1850, 287 (nomen rmdum; 

 Cordova, Vera Cruz). 



Phaethornis adolphi Govi,D,Mon.Troch.,]:)t.xiv, Sept., 1857 (vol. i, 1861), pi. 35 

 and text, part (Cordova, Vera Cruz; coll. J. Gould; ex Bourcier, manu- 

 script). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 

 385 (Teotalcingo, Oaxaca; Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz). — I) 'Oca, Troq. de 

 Mex., 1875, 24, pi. (4), fig. 15. 



[Phaethornis] adolphi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 122, no. 1532, part. — Sharpe, 

 nand4ist, ii, 1900, 100, part. 



P[ha'ethornis] adolphi Hartert, ll)is, 1897, 430, part (s. e. Mexico); Daa Tier- 

 reich, Troch., 1900, 25, part. 



P[hathornis] a[dolphi] adolphi RinowAY. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 

 1910, 54, in text. 



P[yg'inorms] adolphi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Ilein., iii, 1860, 7, footnote, 

 part (Mexico). 



Pygmornis adolphi Salvin and Elliot, Ibis, 1873, 271, part (Mexico). — Boucard, 

 Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 2, part (Cordova and San Andres Tuxtla, 

 Vera Cruz). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. OLs.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 

 1873, 102, pi. 9; iv, livr. 2, 1877, 144; Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 

 201.— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 282, part (Cordova; Playa 

 Vicente; Teapa). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 

 319, part (Cordova; Jalapa; Playa Vicente; Teotalcingo; Teapa). 



[Pygmornisi adolphi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 79, part. 



Pygornis adolphi Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 19, part. 



Eremita adolphi Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 392, part (Tospam, near 

 C6rdova). 



" Five specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



