BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 559 



Panama (Colon; Paraiso; Rio Grande Station; Lion Hill; Panama; 

 Calobre; Chitra; Calovevora; Castillo; Boquete; Divala; Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Cordillera del Cliucu; Santiago and Santa Fe, Veragua) and 

 southwestern Costa Rica (Boruca; Buenos Aires; Dota Mountains). 



ChlorostUbon assimiUs Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 292 

 (Lion Hill Station, Panama Railway; coll. G. N. Lawrence?); ix, 1868, 128 

 (Cartago, Costa Rica).— Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 178.— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 156 (Santa Fe de Veragua, Panama); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 54 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra, Santa Fe, Calovevora, 

 Lion Hill, and Paraiso, Panama). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 317 

 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 265 

 (Cordillera del Chucu, Calobre, etc., Panamd). — Boucard, The Hum. Bird, 

 ii, 1892, 79 (Verdgua; Colon); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 124 (Colon; Panama; 

 Veragua). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 44 (Boruca, s. w. 

 Costa Rica; crit.).— Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1891, 28 (San Miguel I., Bay of Pan- 

 ama); xxiv, 1907, 295 (Boruca); Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 29 

 (Boquete, Panama, 4,000-4,800 ft.).— Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., xlvi, 1905, 150 (San Miguel and Saboga islands. Bay of Panama). — 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 532 (Dota Mts., Boruca, and Buenos 

 Aires, Costa Rica). 



C[hlorostilbon assimilis Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 76. 



[Chlorostilbon] assimiUs Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 113. 



C[hlorolainpis] assimilis Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 201 (Panama). 



Chlorolampis assimilis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 365 

 (Lion Hill).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 156 (Santiago and Santa 

 Fe de Veragua, Panama; crit.); 1870, 211 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Calovevora, 

 Castillo, and Cordillera del Chucu, Panama). 



[Hylocharis] assimilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 149, no. 1929. 



Chlorostilbon angustipemus (not Trochilus angustipennis Fraser) Elliot, Ibis, 

 1875, 153, part (Panama; Veragua; crit.; synon.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 

 1879, 245, part (Panama; Veragua).— Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 

 1882, 22; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 122 (Panama). 



[Chlorostilbon] angustipennis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94, 

 part (Panamd; Veragud). 



Chrysomirus angustipennis Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, 

 livi-. 2, 1875, 102, part (Panamd; Veragua); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 199, part. 



Chlorostilbon panamensis Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, sig. o, March, 1894, 124, 

 in text (Panama; name proposed "if it should prove new;" see Hartert, Novit. 

 Zool., iv, 1897, 152). 



CHLOROSTILBON CARIBiEUS Lawrence. 



CARIBBEAN EMERALD. 



Similar to C. assimilis, but wing and tail much shorter and bill 

 longer, the adult male with pileum brilliant metallic golden instead 

 of dull metallic grass green. 



Adult w^?^.— Pileum brilliant metallic golden green; rest of upper 

 parts varying from metallic golden green to nearly grass green, the 

 upper tail-coverts sometimes slightly more bluish green ; tail glossy 

 blue-black or black glossed with steel-blue; remiges dark brownish 

 slate or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts brilliant 

 metallic golden green, usually appreciably more golden posteriorly, 

 purer (less yellowish) green anteriorly; femoral tufts white; bill 



