316 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



dd. Rump and upper tail-coverts bluish green, the back less bronzy; general 

 coloration darker. (Colombia; Ecuador?; Peru?) 



Phcethornis guyi emiliae (extralimital).« 

 ce. Rump and upper tail-coverts decidedly blue (greenish blue); adult males 

 with under parts mostly metallic green. (Costa Rica and Panamd.) 



Phsethornis guyi coruscus (p. 317). 

 bb. Under parts neither slate-gray nor metallic; upper parts dull greenish or bronzy, 

 much broken by buffy margins to feathers; upper tail-coverts mostly greenish 

 bronze or buffy. 

 c. Upper tail-coverts buffy or tawny, barred with dusky or dark bronzy; under 

 parts mostly buffy. {Phcethornis longirostris.) 

 d. Lateral rectrices margined terminally with buff. 



e. Under parts less strongly buffy, the median throat-stripe narrower. 

 /. Under parts paler (especially sides of throat), not distinctly if at all 

 barred. (Guatemala to northern Honduras.) 



Phcethornis longirostris longirostris (p. 319). 

 ff. Under ])arts darker (especially sides of throat), more or less distinctly 

 barred with darker. (Southern Honduras to Panama.) 



Phcethornis longirostris cephalus (p. 321). 

 dd. Lateral rectrices margined terminally with white. 



€. Paler and smaller (adult male, wing 60-65.5, tail 65-70, culmen 39—42.5). 

 (Southeastern Mexico.). .Phcethornis longirostris veraecrucis (p. 323). 

 ee. Darker and larger (adult male, wing 67-69.5, tail 83-S7, culmen 45.5^7). 

 (Southwestern Mexico.). ..Phcethornis longirostris mexicanus (p. 323). 

 cc. Upper tail-coverts bronze-green margined with buffy; under parts dull grayish 

 white, slightly if at all tinged with buffy. (Phcethornis anthophilus.) 

 d. Green of upper parts paler and more bronzy; upper tail-coverts more broadly 

 margined with buffy; under jaarts slightly buffy. (Colombia and Vene- 

 zuela.) Phcethornis anthophilus anthophilus (extralimital).& 



dd. Green of upper parts deeper and less bronzy, the upper tail-coverts less 

 broadly margined with buffy; under parts more grayish white. (San 

 Miguel Island, Bay of PanamA.) 



Phcethornis anthophilus hyalinus (p. 324). 

 aa. Smaller (wing less than 45 mm.). (Pygmorms.) 



b. Chin and throat not streaked; lateral rectrices broadly margined terminally 

 with deep cinnamon-buff or ochraceous-buff. (Phcethornis adolphi.) 

 c. Paler, especially the throat and chest, the chin not dusky. (Southeastern 



Mexico.) Phcethornis adolphi adolphi, adult male (p. 324). 



cc. Darker, especially throat and chest, the chin distinctly more dusky. (Guate- 

 mala to Panama.) Phcethornis adolphi saturatus (p. 326). 



« T[rochilus] emilise Bourcior and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix, 1846, 



317 (Bogota, Colombia). — [Phaethornis] emilix Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 67. — 

 Phicthornis emiliie Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 44; Elliot, Classif. and Synop. 

 Troch., 1879, 13, part; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 368, part.— Toxoteuches 

 emiliae Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 177. — Phactornis guyi var. emilix Mulsant and 

 Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 17. — Phaethornis guyi emiliae Berlepsch, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., .1887, 314 (Bogotd).— (?) Trochilus apicnlis Tschudi, Faima Peruana, 1845-'46, 

 243. — (?) [Phaethornis] apicalis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 68. — P[haethomis] guy 

 emiKcT Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 19 (monogr.). 



6 Trochilus anthophilus Bourcier, Rev. ZooL, vi, March, 1843, 71 (Upper Magdalena 

 Valley, Colombia; coll. J. Bourcier). — [Phaethornis] anthophilus Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, ei^.—Ph:rthornis anthophilus Gould, Mon. Troch., i, 1854, pi. 24; Elliot, 

 Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 16; Salvin, 'Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 275. 



