BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 335" 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze (varying; from copper-lji-onze 

 to slightly greenish bronze), except pileum, which is uniform dusky; 

 upper tail-coverts broadly margined with cinnamon or (sometimes) 

 with pale bufFy grayish on longer coverts; middle pair of rectrices 

 metallic greenish bronze or bronze-green, tipped with white or pale 

 gra3'ish buff, and crossed by a narrow subterminal band of black; 

 other rectrices clear chestnut or rufous-chestnut, broadly tipped with 

 white and crossed by a broad subterminal band of black, the outer 

 web of lateral rectrix also mostly black; remiges dusky, faintly 

 glossed with violaceous; chin pale grayish cinnamon or tlull buffy 

 whitish; throat, chest, sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts light 

 russet or rusty cinnamon, fading on breast and abdomen into pale 

 grayish buffy; maxilla dull black, mandible dusky terminally, paler 

 (sometimes dull whitish) basally; iris tl ark brown; feet dull yellowish 

 or bufly (in dried skins) ; length (skins), 95-104 ( 101) ; wing, 50.5-56 

 (53.6); tail, 30-34 (31.7); culmen, 30-31.5 (30.6) .« 



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

 wholly and nearly uniformly light russet or rusty cinnamon; length 

 (skins), 94-105 (97); wing, 51-54 (52.4); tail, 29.5-33 (31.3); cul- 

 men, 30-31.5(30.7).^ 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Talamanca; Rio Frio; El Hogar; Pozo 

 Aztil de Pirns; Pozo del Rio Grande; El Pozo de Terraba) and Nica- 

 ragua (Rio Escondido). 



Glmicis ccneus Lawkence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 232 (Costa Rica 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 121 (Costa Rica).— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Om., 1869, 315 (Conta Rica). 



Glaucis aenea Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 305, part (Costa Rica). 



[Glaucis hirsutus] var. aeneus Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 

 1876, 200. 



Glaucis hirsuta seneus Bangs, Auk, xxiv, July, 1907, 288, 295 (Pozo del Rio 

 Grande, s. w. Costa Rica; crit.).— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 

 518 (Costa Rica; crit.; habits). 



Glaucis hirsxita (not Trochilus hirsutus Gmelin) Salvin and Elliot, Ibis, 1873, 

 273, part (Costa Rica; synon.; crit.).- — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 308, part (Costa Rica).— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 

 6, part (Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 19; Anal. 

 Mils. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121 (Pozo Aziil de Pirris, s. w. Costa Rica). — 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 41, 655, part (Costa Rica). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1892, 255, part (Costa Rica). — 

 Richmond, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., xvi, 1893, 516 (Rio Escondido, e. Nicara- 

 gua). — Hartert, Ibis, 1897, 423, part (crit.). 



[Glaucis] Jdrsutus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 78, part. 



GYlaucis] hirsuta Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 15, part (monogr.). 



[Glaucis] hirsuta Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 98, part. 



a Six specimens. i> Five specimens. 



