500 BULLETIN 50, UNITED^ STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Southwestern Mexico, in State of Guerrero (Chilpancingo ; Omil- 

 teme) . 



Delattria margaritse Salvin and Godman, Ibis, April, 1889, 239 (Omilteme, 

 Guerrero, alt. 8,000 ft.; coll. Salvin and Godman.) 



Delattria margaritae BoucARD, Gen. Hum. B., 1895, 219 (Omilteme). 



C[(eligena] margaritse Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 324 (diag- 

 nosis, etc.). 



Delattria margarethx Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 336, 

 pi. 54a, figs. 1, 2.— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 310. 



Delattria margarethae Hartert (E. and C), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 63 (Chilpancingo, 

 Guerrero, 6,000-8,000 ft.). 



[Coeligena] margarethae Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 25. 



[Coeligena] margarethse Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 122. 



C[oeligena] henrica margarethae Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 115 

 (monogr.). 



LAMPORNIS PRINGLEI (Nelson). 



PRINGLE'S CAZIQTJE. 



Similar to L. margaritx, but color of upperparts much more 

 bronzy, the adult male with pileum, hindneck, and back metallic 

 bronze instead of bronze-green, and throat violet-blue instead of 

 violet or violet-purple, the feathers with grayish margins much less 

 distinct. 



Adult male. — Forehead dull metallic coppery bronze, the feathers 

 darker centrally; crown dusky metallic bronze-greenish; occiput, 

 liindneck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts metallic bronze (brighter 

 and somewhat coppery on occiput and liindneck), passing into much 

 duller bronzy, or olive-bronze, on rump; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 black, faintly glossed with bluish, the lateral rectrices broadly, but 

 not sharply, tipped with dark gray or slate color; remiges dusky, 

 very faintly glossed with purplish; auricular region dusky, faintly 

 glossed with bronze, margined above by a white postocular (supra- 

 auricular) streak ; a rictal streak of buffy, cinnamomeous, or grayish 

 brown; cliin brownish gray, the feathers darker centrally; throat 

 bright metallic violet-blue (hyacinth blue tinged with royal purple), 

 the feathers without grayish margins, except on upper throat; rest of 

 under parts deep mouse gray or brownish slate-gray, glossed laterally 

 with bronze or coppery bronze, the under tail-coverts broadly mar- 

 gined with white; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; 

 iris dark brown; feet pale brownish (m dried skins), the claws and 

 upper side of toes dusky ; length (skins), 114-115 (114.7); wing, 68-69 

 (68.3); tail, 43.5-44 (43.7); culmen, 21-22 (21.3).« 



Adult female, — Similar in coloration to adult females of L. amethij- 

 stinus and L. margaritx, but general color of upper parts bronze or 

 greenish bronze instead of bronze-green; length (skin), 108; wing, 62; 

 tail, 40.5; culmen, 23.^ 



<■' Three specimens. ^ One specimen. 



