440 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but slightly duller, the ■ 

 green of throat, etc., more broken by grayish white subbasal bars 

 and pale grayish margins to the feathers, and under tail-coverts with 

 broader grayish margins and duller or paler bluish central areas; 

 length (skins), 88-96 (92); wing, 50-55 (52.7); tail, 29-31 (30); cul- 

 men, 18-20.5 (19.3).« 



Young. — Similar to adults, but decidedly duller in coloration, 

 especially the under parts, and feathers of rump tipped or terminally 

 margined with brown. 



Nicaragua (San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua; boundary line between 

 Nicaragua and Honduras, 180 miles from Pacific coast) and Costa 

 Rica (San Jose; Las Cruces de Candelaria; Escazu; Monte Redondo; 

 Cartago; Tucurriqui; Bonilla; Carrillo; Cerro Santa Maria; Volcan 

 de Miravalles; Bebedero; Barranca de Punta Arenas; Esparta; Rio 

 Turubales; Pigres; San Miguel; San Pedro de Mojon; Tenorio; 

 Orosi; Bolson). 



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

 1846, 318 ("Bogota"); b Rev. Zool., 1846, 316. 



P[olytmus] sophix Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 109. 



[Polytmus] sophise Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 131, no. 1670. 



[Amazilius] sophise Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 78. 



[Chlorestes. y. Saucerottia] sophiae Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 8. 



[Saucerottia] sophia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 



Saucerottia sophise Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 162. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 315 ("Central America"). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 

 1868, 127 (San Jose and Dota, Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 71 (San Jose and Cartago, Costa Rica); (?) The Hum. Bird, v, 1895, 7 

 (Call, n. w. Colombia). — Eudes-Deslongchamps, Ann. Mus. Caen, i, 1880, 

 425.— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 526 (Pacific slope and 

 highlands of Costa Rica; habits). 



[Saucerottia] sophise Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 92. 



[Saucerottea] sophiae Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 12. 



S[aucerottea] sophiae Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 53 (monogr.). 



Saucerottea sophix Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 295 (Barranca de Punta Arenas). 



[Saucerottea] sophise Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 107. 



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



(??) Sauceroiia sophise Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 81 (Santa Marta and 

 Barranquilla; Valencia, Venezuela; crit.). 



[Chlorestes] sophiae Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pi. 697, figs. 4554, 4555. 



Erythronota sophise Gould, Mon. Troch., v, pt. xxii, July, 1861, pi. 322. 



H[€mithylaca] sophiae Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 38, footnote 

 ("Colombia"). — Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 192. 



[Hemithylaca] sophiae Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 179 

 (Costa Rica; "Guatemala"). 



Ariana sophise Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 36; Hist. Nat. Ois.- 

 Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 328, pi. 28 ("Colombia;" Veragua; Costa Rica); iv, 

 livr. 1, 1877, pi. 54, livr. 3, 1878, 185. 



a Ten specimens. 



b The alleged type in the Elliot collection, American Museum of Natural History, 

 bears, on the original label, the locality Nicaragua! 



