BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 519 



Coloration. — Above metallic green (darker in adult males) , the tail 

 blue-black (middle rectrices sometimes dark greenish in females); 

 adult males with chin and throat brilhant metallic green, the under 

 parts of body, abruptly, bright violet-blue; tail wholly blue-black; 

 adult females with under parts i3ale gray or grayish white (the throat 

 sometimes spotted with green), the lateral rectrices tipped with gra}'. 



Range. — Panama to western Ecuador. (Three species or sub- 

 species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF DAMOPHILA. 



a. Chill, throat, and chest brilliant metallic green, under parts of body metallic 

 violet-blue; tail uniform blue-black. {Adult males .) 

 b. Pileum brilliant metallic green. {Damophila julise .) 

 c. Bill averaging shorter (14.5); pileum usually less glittering green and blue 

 of under parts usually(?) less violaceous. (Colombia to Chiriqui.) 



Damophila juliae juliae, adult male (p. 519). 

 cc. Bill averaging longer (15.1); pileum usually more glittering green and blue 

 of under parts usually(?) more violaceous. (Western Ecuaddr.) 



Damophila julise feliciana, adult male (extralimital).a 

 bb. Pileum dull metallic green, like back. (Panamd and adjacent part of Costa 



Rica?) Damophila panamensis, adult male (p. 521). 



aa. Chin, throat, and chest pale gray or grayish white, or only spotted with green; 

 under parts of body pale gray, passing into white posteriorly; lateral rectrices 

 tipped with gray. (Adult females.) 

 b. Throat usually heavily spotted with green. 



Damophila juliae feliciana, adult female (extralimital).^ 

 bb. Thi'oat usually immaculate Damophila panamensis, adult female p. 521).) 



DAMOPHILA JULI-ffi JULI^ (Bourcier). 



JULIE'S HUMMING BIRD. 



Adult male. — Pileum brilliant metallic green (yellowish emerald 

 green to golden green) ; rest of upper parts duller metallic bronze- 

 green, usually more bronzy on rump; tail glossy blue-black; remiges 

 very dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; 

 malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, chin, throat, and sides of 

 neck brilliant metallic green (like pileum) ; rest of under parts rich 

 metallic violet-blue (deep smalt blue to hyacinth blue), the flanks 

 intermixed with metallic green; under tail-coverts glossy blue-black; 

 femoral tufts white; maxilla dull black, mandible pale brownish or 



o Ornismya feliciana Lesson, Rev. Zool., vii, Dec, 1844, 433 (Guayaquil, w. Eciia- 

 d6r; coll. Abeille). — Juliamya feliciana Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 168. — 

 Damophila feliciana Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 316. — [Hylocharis] feliciana Gray, 

 Hand-list, i, 1869, 151, no. 1948. — D[a7nophila] jidie feliciana H-drtert, Das Tierreich, 

 Troch., 1900, 71 (monogr.). — Damophila juliie (not Ornismya juliae Bourcier) Salvin, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 236, part. — Juliamyia typica (not of Bonaparte) 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1S60, 283 (Habahoyo, w. Ecuad6r), 296 (Esmeraldaa, 

 w. Ecuador). 



^ The adult female of D. julise julise not seen by me. 



