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Highlands of southern and central Costa Rica (Cartago; La 

 Estrella de Cartago; Escazu; Dota Mountains; Santa Maria, Cope}^, 

 Lagudria, Los Reyes, and Las Vueltas, Dota; Ojuras de Terraba) and 

 adjacent portion of western Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Oreopyra cinereicauda Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 

 485 (Costa Rica; coll. G. N. Lawrence); ix, 1868, 125 (Costa Rica).— Frant- 

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

 1870, 206; Cat. Bii-ds Ihit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 307.— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1878, 68 (Navarro, Costa Rica); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 225 (Navarro 

 and Cartago, Costa Rica). — Mui.sANxand Verkeaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., 

 iv, livr. 3, 1878, 163, pi. 116 (Cartago); Suppl., pi. 2.— Elliot, Classif. and 

 Synop. Troch., 1879, 34.— Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121.— Sharps, Suppl. Gould's Mon. 

 Troch., 1885, pi. 7. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 

 333. — Carriker, Ann. (Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910,^540 (s. w. Costa Rica; crit.; 

 habits). 



0[reopyru] cinereicauda Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 206 (Costa Rica; 

 crit.).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 107 (Dota Mts.; crit. on 

 pp. 105, 106). 



[Oreopyra] cinereicauda Sclater and Salvin, Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 80. — Mul- 

 SANT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 203. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900,123. 



0[reopyra\ leucaspis cinereicauda Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 117. 



[Trochilus] cinereicaudus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 138, no. 1770. 



Anthocephala castaneiventris (not Trochilus castaneoventris Gould) Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 124, part. 



OREOPYRA HEMILEUCA Salvin. 



WHITE-BELLIED MOUNTAIN GEM. 



Adult male. — Forehead and crown, together with auricular, subor- 

 bital, and malar regions, brilliant metallic emerald green; occiput and 

 nape duller, more bronzy green, changing to opaque black in position 

 ff, at least laterally; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump metallic 

 bronze-green (more bronzy i)osteriorly), tlie iq^per tail-coverts 

 metallic bronze or greenish bronze; tail rather dull metallic bronze or 

 greenish bronze, becoming still duller (more gra3dsh) on lateral rec- 

 trices, the rectrices (except middle pair) tipped with i)ale buffy 

 grayish and crossed by an indistinct subterminal band of darker 

 bronzy or dusky; remiges purplish dusky, the inner secondaries 

 glossed with bronze-greenish; edge of wing (metacarpal portion) pale 

 cinnamon; a postocular streak of white extending obliquely back- 

 ward and downward between the blackish of latero-occipital region 

 and emerald green of auricular region; chin metallic emerald green, 

 the feathers light gray basally and margined with pale gray or grayish 

 white; throat soft metallic liglit violet-purple or mauve; rest of 

 under parts white, spotted laterally, especially on sides of breast, with 

 metallic bronze-green, the under tail-coverts pale brownish gray cen- 

 trally; bill dull black; iris dark brown; feet grayish brown (in dried 



