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ANTHOSCENUS LONGIROSTRIS PALLIDICEPS (Gould). 



PALE-CROWNED STAR-THROAT. 



Similar to A. 7. longirostris, but adult male with forehead and crown 

 metallic green or bluish green instead of blue or greenish blue. 



Adult 7nale.— Length (skins), 103-118 (111); wing, 57-61.5 (5S.9); 

 tail, 31-34.5 (32.5); culmen, 30-33.5 (31.8).'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 105; wing, 57; tail, 32; culmen, 32.5.* 



Nicaragua (Chontales), Salvador (Volcan de San Miguel; La 

 LibertJid), Guatemala (Santa Ana, Peten; Patuliil, Solola; Duehas; 

 Guahin; Mazatenango; Las Salinas; Retalhuleu; Naranjo) and 

 southeastern Mexico, in States of Chiapas (Gineta Mountains), 

 Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Tehuantepec; Sierra de Santo Domingo; 

 Tonila) Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Tospam, near Cordova), and Guerrero 

 (Chilpancingo). 



[Heliomaster] pallidiceps Gould, lutrod. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 139 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz; coll. J. Gould). — Sclateii and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 90. 



Heliomaster pallidiceps Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 139 (Mexico; 

 Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 310 (Las Salinas, Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala).— (?) Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 205 (Duenas); 1872, 313, 320 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua; crit.); Cat. Strickl. Coll., 1881, 367 (Guatemala).— D'Oca, 

 Troq. de Mex., 1875, 17, pi. (3), fig. 9.— Boucard, Notes Troch. du Mex., 

 1875, 11 (Tospdm, near Cordova, Vera Cruz); Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 

 45.— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 32 (Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca). — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 215. 



E[eliiomaster] pallidiceps Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 316, in text (Guatemala). 



Eeliomastes pallidiceps Mulsant and Vekreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, 

 livr. 4, 1876, 275 (Mexico to Nicaragua); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 211 (synonymy). 



Floricola longirostris pallidiceps Hartert (E. and C), Novit. Zool., i, Jan., 

 1894, 20 (Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4,000 ft.; crit.). 



[Floricola] long[irostris] pallidiceps Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 36. 



F[loricola] superba pallidiceps Hartert (E.), Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 192. 



Anthoscenus superbus pallidiceps Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. IL, Nov., 

 1907, 99 (Mazatenango and Patuliil, Guatemala). 



[Floricola] pallidiceps Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 138. 



Heliomaster longirostris (not Trochilus longirostris Audebert and Vieillot) Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1860, 263 (Dueiias, Guatemala). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 

 195, 263, 276 (Duenas).— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 83, part. 



Floricola longirostris Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 83, part. — Salvin, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 229, part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Oaxaca and 

 Sierra de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca; Santa Ana, Las Salinas, Retalhuleu, 



a Eleven specimens. 



b One specimen (from Guatemala). 



