BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 365 



335 (Barranquilla, Colombia). — Cherhie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 

 1893, 45 (Ijoruca and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 326 (Colombia?; Venezuela?, etc.). — Bou- 

 CARD, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 353, part (Costa Rica; Chiriqui; Col6n). — 

 RiDGWAY, Condor, vii, 1905, 154, in text (Pigres, Costa Rica). 



[Phseochroa] cuvieri Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 80. 



[Pohjtmus] cuvieri Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 125, no. 157:5. 



[Ca'Kge7ia] clemcnchv (not Ornismi/a clcnienchv Lesson) Reiciienbach, Troch. 

 Enum., 1855, 3, pi. 687, fig. 4517, part (supposed female). 



Aphantochwa ciirhochloris (not Trochilus cirrhodiloris Gmelin) Bangs, Proc. New 

 Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 19 (Loma del Leon, Panamd). 



PHi5;0CHR0A CUVIERn SATURATIOR (Hartert). 



COIBA ISLAND HUMMING BIRD. 



Similai' to P. c.cnvierii, hut oieeii of throat, chest, and l)reast much 

 deeper, alxkmien darker (browner), and bill slia^htly longer. 



Coiba Island, Bay of Panama. 



This form 1 have not seen, but it seems, judi^int^ from tlic original 

 description (which omits ineasurenients), to l)e ([uite well marked. 



Aphantochwa cuvurii saluraliur IIartert, Bull. Brit. C)rn. Club, xii, no. Ixxxiv, 

 Dec. 30, 1901, 33 (Coiba Island, Bay of Panama; coll. 'I'ring Mus.). 



PHiEOCHROA ROBERTI (Salvin). 



OWEN'S HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to P. cumerii l)ut mandi])le ^\llolly (hisk}' and lateral 

 rectrices (except for whitish tij)) wholly diisk}^ or with bronze-greenish 

 at base only. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Abt)ve metallic In'onze or bronze-green, the 

 middle i)air of rectrices usually more bhdsh or silvery green; rectrices 

 next to middle pair bronze-green tii){)ed with dusky; next pair 

 similar but more extensively dusky terminally, sometimes with a 

 small apical spot of white; next pair with less than basal half bronze- 

 green, the rest blacldsh, with a large terminal cuneate or guttate 

 spot of white; lateral })air black to or near extreme base, the white 

 terminal spot still larger (sometimes with a small dusky area on 

 outer terminal ]:)oition of outer web) ; remiges dusky or dark brown- 

 ish slate, faintly glossed with purplish ; chin, throat, chest, and sides 

 rather dull metallic bronze or l^ronze-green, the feathers narrowly mar- 

 gined with pale grayish buffy ; rest of under ])arts pale dull cinnamon- 

 buff or pale isabella color, the under tail-coverts dull bronze-greenish 

 (or grayish dusky glossed with bronze-greenish), broadly-margined 

 with white; femoral tufts and tuft on each side of rump white; bill 

 dull black, the mandible indistinctly more brownish basally; iris dark 

 brown; feet dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 115-122 (118); wing, 66.5-70 (68.4); 

 tail, 41-43.5 (42.6); culmen, 20-21 (20.6).« 



o Four specimens. 



