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ANTHRACOTHORAX VERAGUENSIS Reichenbach. 



VERAGUAN MANGO. 



Similar to A. prevostii, but adult male with chin and throat wholly 

 bright metallic ^reen. 



Adult male. — Above metalhc bronze, greenish bronze, or bronze- 

 o;reen, the middle pair of rectrices usually more coppery bronze; 

 other rectrices rich purplish maroon, glossed with violet-purple, 

 margined terminally with purplish or bluish black, tliis extending 

 along edge of outer web for terminal half (more or less); remiges 

 brownish slate or dusky; loral and malar regions, chin, and throat 

 brilliant metallic yellowish emerald green varying to more golden 

 green; chest and median portion of breast and abdomen duller and 

 more bluish green, the lateral under parts metallic bronze or bronze- 

 green; under tail-coverts blackish or dusky, more or less glossed with 

 greenish; femoral and lumbar tufts wliite; bill dull black; iris dark 

 brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 99-111 (105); wing, 64.5-72 (67.1); 

 tail, 34-37.5 (35.3); exposed culmen, 23.5-26.5 (24.7)." 



Adult female. — Above similar in color to the adult male; chin and 

 a broad stripe extending therefrom along sides of throat and chest 

 to anal region, white, these two wdiite stripes inclosing one of metallic 

 bluish green, the feathers of which are dusky beneath the surface; 

 sides of neck and thence to flanks metallic bronze-green; under tail- 

 coverts light bronze-green narrowly tipped or terminally margined 

 with white, the longer ones with an indistinct subterminal bar of 

 dusky; lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white antl crossed by a 

 broad band of glossy blue-black, the remaining portion chestnut 

 glossed with metallic purple; length (skin). 111; wing, 65; tail, 36.5; 

 culmen (tip of maxilla broken off).'' 



Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui; David; Calobre; Cordillera del Chucu; 

 Agua Dulce; Nata, Code; Panamix); Costa Rica? 



[Anthracothorax, y. Scricotcs] vcragucnsis Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 



11 (Veragua; nomen nudum). 

 [Anthracothorax] veraguensis Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 9, pi. 794, fig. 



4848 (Verdgua). 

 [Lampnrnis] veraguensis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, 1854, 250. — Sclater 



and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81. — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 



xxii, 1876, 202.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 118. 



b One specimen. 



