330 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF GLAUCIS HIRSUTA. 



a. Larger (wing averaging more than 56, tail more than 34, culmen more than 31 

 mm.; upper parts bronze-green or decidedly greenish bronze; sexes different, the 

 adult females rufescent beneath, adult males dull russet brownish. 

 b. Larger (adult male averaging: Wing 65.1, tail 41.2, culmen 33.3; adult female, 

 wing 61.8, tail 39.5, culmen 33.1); color of under parts slightly browner. (East- 

 ern South America, including islands of Grenada, Tobago, and Triniddd.) 



Glaucis hirsuta hirsuta (p. 330). 

 66. Smaller (adult male averaging: Wing 58.6, tail 36.3, culmen 31.3; adult female, 

 wing 56.5, tail 34.9, culmen 31.9); color of under jjarts slightly more rufes- 

 cent. (PanamA to the Rio Negro and eastern Peru.) 



Glaucis hirsuta affinis (p. 333). 

 aa. Smaller (wing less than 54, tail less than 32, culmen less than 31 mm.); upper 

 parts bronze or coppery bronze; sexes alike, the adult male as well as female 

 rufescent beneath. (Eastern Costa Rica and eastern Nicaragua.) 



Glaucis hirsuta ^nea (p. 334). 



GLAUCIS HIRSUTA HIRSUTA (Gmelin). 



HAIRY HERMIT. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, duller 

 on pileum, where, especially on forehead and crown, the feathers are 

 dusky basally and on margins, sometimes wholly dusky; upper tail- 

 coverts rather broadly margined terminally with pale buffy grayish 

 or grayish buffy; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green, tipped 

 (usually narrowly) with dull white, the subterminal portion more or 

 less dusky; remaining remiges clear chestnut, crossed by a broad 

 subterminal band of dull black (outer web of lateral rectrix also 

 mostly black), the tip, narrowly, dull white; remiges dusky, faintly 

 glossed with violet-purple; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions 

 dusky, the last faintly glossed with bronze or bronze-green ; under parts 

 dull russet or mars brown (at least on chest), the chin dull whitish, the 

 abdomen pale grayish cinnamon or buffy grayish; under tail-coverts 

 pale cinnamon, becoming still paler on margin, sometimes with an 

 indistinct central area of grayish or olive faintly glossed with bronze- 

 greenish; dusky brown or dull blackish, mandible whitish (pink or 

 reddish in life), passing into dusky at tip; iris dark brown; feet dull 

 yellowish or buffy (in dried skins); length (skins), 109-131 (123); 

 wing, 57.5-68.5 (65.1); tail, 34.5-44.5 (41.2); culmen, 31-35.5 (33.3).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but under parts wholly 

 and almost uniformly light russet or rusty cinnamon; length (skins), 



o Fourteen specimens. 



