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Immature^ — Similar to the adult female but without any metallic 

 purple feathers on throat, which is wholly (centrally at least) dusky, 

 the feathers usually tipped with dull white or grayish. 



Young. — Similar to the supposed immature plumage, as described 

 above, but feathers of upper parts (especially those of rump) more 

 or less distinctly tipped with pale rusty brown or buffy; throat some- 

 times mostly thdl wliite. 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Rancho Redondo; Cerro de la Candelaria; 

 San Pedro del Mojon; Angostura; Escazu; Volcan de Irazii; Tucur- 

 riqui; Boruca; Paso Real, and Barranca, Boruca; Terraba; El General; 

 Pozo Aziil de Pirris; Bebedero), Panama (Cordillera del C'hucu; Cor- 

 dillera de Tole; Calovevora; Calobre; Chitra; Santa Fe de Veragua; 

 Laguna del Castillo; David; Divala; Boquete; El Banco; Loma del 

 Leon; Paraiso; Chepo; Panama; Saboga Island) and southward 

 through Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas to lower Amazon 

 Valley. 



Trochilus longirostris Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dor^s, i, livr. 10, 1801, 

 107, pi. 59 (Triuidad).— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 366 

 (Trinidad). 



T[rochilus\ longirostris Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1822, 566. 



Ornismya longirostris D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1854 (Synop. 

 Av., ii, 29). 



[Heliomaster] longirostris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 70. — Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Bras., iv. Abth., 1870, 408. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 90. 



Heliomaster longirostris Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. v, 1853 (vol. iv), pi. 259; Introd. 

 Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 138.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 140 

 (David, Panama); 1857, 16 (Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 310 

 (South America). — Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 435 (Merum^ Mts. and Roraima, 

 Brit. Guiana); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 155 (Cordillera de Tole and 

 Santa Fe de Veragua, Panama; crit.); 1870, 210 (Cordillera del Chucu, 

 Laguna del Castillo, Calovevora, and Chitra, Panamd). — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 

 92 (Trinidad). — Pelzeln, Oru. Bras., i. Abth., 1868, 31. — Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 126 (Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 

 317 (Costa Rica).— Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 562 (Trinidad).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 752 (Chyavetas, e. Peru), 

 979 (Pebas, e. Peru); 1873, 288 (Chyavetas, Chamicuros, and Pebas, e. Peru); 

 1879, 530 (Colombia). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1875, 215. — 

 Elliot, Ibis, 1877, 138 (Guarayos, Bolivia). — Eudes-Deslongchamps, BulL 

 Soc. Linn. Normandie, v, 1881, 262. — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1882, 38 (Yurimaguas, e. Peru). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1887, 321 

 (Bogota; crit.).— Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 86 (Bogottl). 



E[eliomaster] longirostris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 54 (Cay- 

 enne). — Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 316, in text (Costa Rica; crit.). 



[nelio7nastes] longirostris Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, 1854, 251. 



Eeliomastes longirostris Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, 

 livr. 4, 1876, 271 (Trinid<4d; the Guianas; Venezuela; Amazonia; Colombia; 

 Costa Rica); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 211 (synonymy). 



[Selasphorus. y. Heliomaster] longirostris Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 13. 



Mellisuga longirostris Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 137. 



