BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 5G9 



upper throat and chin; chest, breast, sides, and flanks rather dull 

 metallic l)ronze-o;reen (b, c), changing to nearly black (a), passing 

 into dull grayish brown on abdomen; anal tufts grayish white; under 

 tail-coverts dull bronze-green, or bronzy grayish brown, margined 

 with brownish buff; bill blackish or dull black, with mandibular tomia 

 dull flesh color (in life); iris dark brown; feet dusky broMii (in life); 

 length (skins), lLM-135 (130); wing, 76-81 (77.8); tail, 43.5-48.5 

 (46.8), middle rectrices, 37.5-41.5 (42.8); culmen, 29-33 (31).« 



AduJi female . — Pileum, together with loral, suborbital and auricular 

 regions, dark sooty or dusky, the first faintly glossed with greenish, 

 at least j)osteriorly; rest of upper parts as in adult male, but tail 

 duller bronze, the two or three outer rectrices tipped with brownish 

 gra}' and all becoming dull blackish terminally or subtermmally; a 

 conspicuous postocular spot of white; under parts bufl'y or brownish 

 gray, the feathers of chin and throat conspicuously margined with 

 pale dull grayish buflfy (especially on edges) producing a streaked 

 and more or less scpiamate appearance, the other lower parts with 

 much less distinct paler margins to feathers; sides and flanks mostly 

 bronzy green; anal tufts white, as in adult male; bill, iris, and feet 

 as in adult male; length (skins), 127-141 (135); wing, 68-74.5 

 (73.5); tail, 36-43.5 (42.3), middle rectrices, 33-40 (37.7); cuhnen, 

 35-37.5 (36.3) .« 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Rancho Redondo; Volcan de Irazu; 

 Volcan de Turrialba; C^oliblanco; Escazu; C'erro de la Candelaria; 

 La Estrella de C^irtago; San Juan; Ojuras de Terraba) and w^estern 

 Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Ileliornaster spectabilis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 

 472 (Costa Rica; colL G. N. Lawrence ;= female). — Salvin, Ibis, 18G8, 

 251 (crit.). 



[Trocliilus] sj)ectabilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 137, no. 1750. 



Eugenes spectabilis Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 316 (Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 304.— Frantzius, Jouru. Mr Orn., 1869, 315 

 (Costa Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1871, 140 ("near San Jose," 

 Costa Riea; crit.). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, 

 livr. 3, 1876, 215; iv, li\T. 3, 1878, 206 (erit.).— Boucard, Proe. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1878, 68 (Volcdn de Irazii, 6,000-8,000 ft.; deser. adult male; erit.; 

 habits); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 297 (Raneho Redondo, Costa Rica). — 

 Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troeh., 1879, 61. — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de 

 Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Riea, i, 1887, 121 (Faldas de 

 Irazu). — Sharpe, Suppl. Gould's Men. Troeh., 1885, pi. 13. — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 330.— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. 

 Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 30 (Volciln de Chiriqui, Panama, 8,000 ft.).— Ridgway, 

 Condor, vii, 1905, 157, in text (Coliblaneo, Costa Rica, 6,500 ft.). — Carriker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 539 (Costa Rica, above 6,000 ft.). — Ferry, 

 Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., om. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 264 (Coliblaneo, Costa 

 Rica). 



a Ten specimens, all from Costa Rica. 



