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rarely*' varying to bright golden green; remiges dark brownish slate 

 or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; chin and extreme upper 

 throat dull whitish, the feathers (except, sometimes, on apex of chin) 

 with a terminal spot of metallic violet-blue; rest of throat, together 

 with upper chest, bright metallic violet-blue; breast, sides, and flanks 

 metallic bronze-green (the upper breast or lower chest usually purer or 

 more bluish green); abdomen and median portion of breast buffy 

 grayish or pale broccoli brown, slightly more buffy on lower abdomen; 

 femoral tufts white; under tail-coverts grayish brown, broadly edged 

 and tipped with chmamon; bill pale brownish (pinkish or reddish in 

 life), more or less extensively dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet 

 grayish brown or dusky; length (skins), 78-90 (88); wing, 47.5-52 

 (49.6); tail, 24.5-29 (26.6); culmen, 17-18.5 (17.6).^ 



Adult female. — Essentially like the adult male, but under parts 

 paler, usually with the violet-blue of throat much more restricted and 

 broken by dull whitish margins to feathers; length (skins), 74-83 

 (77); wing, 44.5-48.5 (46.8); tail,24 -26 (25); culmen, 17-19 (17.9).'= 



Extreme southern Mexico in State of Chiapas (Ocuilapa) and south- 

 ward through Guatemala (Cohan; Choctum; Masagua; Retalhuleu; 

 Guahln), Salvador (La Libertad), Honduras (Santa Ana; Rio 

 Segovia), Nicaragua (Sucuya; La Libertad and Santo Domingo, 

 Chontales), and Costa Rica (Miravalles; Coralillo; La Vijagua; El 

 General; Bolson; Lagarto; Tenorio; Boruca; Pozo del Rio Grande; 

 Pozo Azul de Pirris ; Rio Turubales ; Pigres ; Bagaces ; San Pedro del 

 Mojon), to western Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui; Divala; 

 Bugaba; Chitra; David). 



T[rochilus] elicise Bourcier and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix, 1846, 



314 (locality unknown); Rev. Zool., 1846, 316. 

 P[olytTfmLs\ elicise Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 109. 

 [Polytmus] elicise Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 133, no. 1706. 

 [Chrysuronia] elicise Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 75. — Reichenbach, Aufz. 



der Colibr., 1854, 9; Troch. Enum., 1855, 5, pi. 722, figs. 4644, 4645. 

 [Chrysuronia] elicia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 254. 



« In only one among eleven specimens examined. 

 b Twenty specimens. 



c Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 

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