BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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metallic green; bill black, the mandible pale brownish basally; iris 

 dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 74-88 (80); wing, 49-54.5 

 (50.3); tail, 26.5-30.5 (28.3); culmen, 14-15.5 (14.7).« 



Adult female . — Above bright metallic grass green or bronze-green, 

 the longer upper tail-coverts and four middle rectrices metallic 

 bronze or greenish bronze; three lateral pairs of rectrices white, the 

 third very broadly tipped with black, the fourth and fifth crossed 

 by a broad subterminal band of the same; remiges dusky, faintly 

 glossed with puri)lish; chin, throat, median line of chest and breast, 

 abdomen, hinder Hanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts pure 

 wliite, the lower throat and chest sometimes flecked with metallic 

 green; rest of under parts metallic emerald green, the feathers gray- 

 ish beneath surface; bill blackish, the mandible paler basally; iris 

 dark brown; feet brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 74-80 

 (76); wing, 45.5-48 (46.8); tail, 24-26.5 (25.4); culmen, 14.5-15.5 

 (15.1).'' 



Western Panama (Calovevora; David; Boquete; Volcan de Chiri- 

 qui) and southwestern Costa Rica (Dota; Santa Maria and Laguaria, 

 Dota; Boruca). 



Trochilus (Thmtmatias) chioniira Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850, 162 



(DaAdd, Chiriqui, Panama, alt. 2,000-3,000 ft.; coll. J. Gould). 

 Thaumatias chionurus Gould, Mon. Troch., v, pt. iii, 1852, pi. 300; Introd. 



Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 153.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1868, 349 



(crit.). — Elliot, Ibis, 1878, 48 (Costa Rica; synon.; crit.). — Boucard, 



Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 11 (Costa Rica; Panama). 

 [Thaumatias] chionurus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 92. 

 [Thaumanlias'] chionura Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 

 Thaumant.ias chionurus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1867, 156 (David, etc., 



Panama; crit.); 1870, 210 (Volcan de Chiriqui and Calovevora, Panama). 

 [Leucippus] chionurus Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 11; Troch. Enum., 



1855, 8, pi. 780, figs. 4313-4315. 

 A[gyrtria] chionura Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 32, footnote 



(Veragua). — Heine, Journ. fth- Orn., 1863, 183. 

 Elvira chianura Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 32. 

 Eupherusa chionura Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 127 (Dota, Costa 



Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 317 (Costa Rica). 



« Thirteen specimens. 



& Eight specimens. 



