BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 429 



Honduras. 



Cyanomyin microrhyncha Elliot, Ibis, 3d ser., vi, July, 1876, 316 (Honduras?; 



coll. D. G. Elliot).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 197.— Salvin 



and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 290. — Boucard, Gen. Hum. 



Birds, 1894, 165. 

 Uranomitra microrhyncha Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 197. — Sharpe 



in Gould's Mon. Troch., Suppl.,1885. 

 Cyanomya microrhyncha Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, 



livr. 3, 1878, 172; Suppl. plates, pi. 53. 

 A[gyrtria] microrhyncha Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 49. 

 [Agyrtria] microrhyncha Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 106. 

 [Agyrtria] microrrhyncha Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 11. 



AMIZILIS SALVINI (Brewster). 



SALVIN'S AZURE-CROWN. 



Adult male. — Pileum bright metallic blue, more greenish posteriorly, 

 the sides of head (behind and beneath eyes) and sides of neck also 

 bright metalHc blue; hindneck, upper back, anterior scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts metallic bluish green; lower back, posterior scapulars, 

 and rump dull grayish green, the feathers showing pale brownish 

 gray margins in certain lights; upper tail-coverts and tail deeper 

 metalUc green, inclining to bottle green, with a faint bronzy cast, 

 the outer pair of rectrices with a rather indistinct darker subtermmal 

 bar and more distinct broad brownish gray tip; remiges dusky, very 

 faintly glossed with violet; chin, throat, chest (excej)t laterally), 

 median line of breast, abdomen, thighs, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts immaculate white; sides of throat and chest spotted with 

 bright metallic blue, the terminal or subterminal portion of some 

 of the feathers being of this color; sides of breast nearly uniform 

 metallic bluish green (like hindneck), the sides and flanks purer green, 

 the feathers with indistinct pale grayish or grayish white margins; 

 lores dusky; maxilla blackish brown, paler (reddish m life) basally; 

 mandible paler (reddish flesh color in life) with dusky tip; iris dark 

 brown; length (skin), 91.5; wing, 53.8; tail, 33; culmen, 22.8.« 



Young female.^ — Pileum dull metallic smalt blue, passing into 

 greenish blue or bluish green on hindneck and upper back, this into 

 greenish bronze on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the 

 feathers all margined terminally with pale buffy brown or brownish 

 buff, these buffy margins becoming much broader and more con- 

 s])icuous on rump and upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts deep grayish 

 brown or brownish slate faintly glossed vdih greenish bronze and 

 very narrowly tipped with paler; remiges similar but faintly glossed 



« One specimen (the type: no. 24125, coll. William Brewster; Nacosari, Sonora, 

 March 31, 1887; J. C. Cahoon). 



b No. 13964, coll. Louis B. Bishop, Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona, July 

 4, 1905. 



