BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 



505 



dull metallic bronze-green on lower throat, chest, and sides of 

 breast; lower breast and abdomen tawny-ochraceous, passing into 

 dull grayish on sides and flanks; under tail-coverts brownish gray 

 broadly margined with didl white. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 87-113 (99); wing, 60.5-65 (61.7); 

 tail, 29.5-37 (35.6); eulmen, 18-20.5 (19.5).« 



Ad ulf female.— Ijength. (skins), 91-107 (96); wing, 55-58.5 (57.5); 

 tail, 30.5-34 (32.5); eulmen, 20-23 (20.9).^ 



Highlands of Costa Rica (San Jose; La Palma de San Jose; 

 Escazii; Las Cruces de Candeliiria; Cerro de la Candelaria; C^artago; 

 Azahar de Cartago; Naranjo de Cartago; Volcan de Irazii; Ranclio 

 Redondo; Peorsnada; Navarro; C^oliblanco; Juan Villas; C^ariilio; La 

 Hondura; Tenorio; Copey, Santa Maria de Dota; Dota Mountains) 

 and western Panama (Cordillera de Tole; Cordillera del Chucu; 

 Calovevora; Calobre). 



Oreopyra calolsema Salvik, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. April 1, 1865), 584 

 ("Volcan de Cartago," i. e. Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and 

 Godman); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 307 (Irazii district, etc., Costa 

 Rica). — Salvadori, Atti R. Ace. Torino, 1868, 183 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 316 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 69 (Naranjo de Cartago, Navarro, and Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica; 

 crit.). — Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 33, part (Volcan de 

 Irazii).— RiDG WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 310 (Costa Rica).— Zele- 

 DON, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 418 (Costa Rica).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 500 (San Jost', 

 Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Gould's Mon. Troch. Suppl., 1885, pi. 6. — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 333, pai-t, pi. 54, figs. 1, 2 (Volcan 

 de Irazii, Rancho Redondo, San Jose, Dota, "La Palma"=San Jos^, Peors- 

 nada, Las Cruces de Candelaria, and Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Rica). — 

 Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 264 (Coliblanco, 

 Costa Rica). 



(?) Oreopyra calolaema Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 153 (Cordillera de 

 Tole, Panamd,; crit.); 1870, 205, part (Calovevora and Cordillera del Chucu, 

 Panama); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 307, part (Cordillera del Chucu 

 and Calovevora). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, 

 livr. 3, 1878, 104, part (Cordillera de Tole and Cordillera del Chucu, Pan- 

 ama). — Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 77 (Veragua); Gen. Hum. Birds, 



« Fourteen si^ccimens. 



^ Eleven specimens. 



