602 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



brown or dusk}-; length (skins), 69-74 (72); wing, 38.5-41.5 (40.2); 

 tail, 26-28.5 (27.5); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.7).« 



Adult female. — Above similar in color to the adult male, but three 

 outer rectrices (on each side) broadly tipped with pale cinnamon- 

 rufous or cmnamon-buff, and with the basal portion extensively 

 cinnamon-rufous; dim and throat dull wliite (often more or less 

 tinged \di\\ cinnamomeous) streaked or spotted with grayish brown 

 or dusky; rest of under parts as m adult male, but sides without 

 green spotting; length (skins), 71-78 (74); wing, 41-43.5 (42); tail, 

 25-27 (26.2); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.9).« 



Highlands of Costa Rica (A^olcan de Irazu; Yolcan de Turrialba; 

 Sabana de Cartago; La Estrella de Cartago; Cerro de la Candelaria; 

 Santa Maria de Dota; Rancho Redondo). 



Selasphorus flammula Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 586 (Volcan de Car- 

 tago, i. e., Volcan de Irazii, Costa Eica; coll. SaHan and Godman); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x\-i, 1892, 398.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 123 

 (Volcdn de Irazvi). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica). — 

 MuLSANT and Yerreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, li\T. 3, 1876, pi. 44; 

 iv, li\T. 2, 1877, 99 (Cartago); liw. 3, 1878, 220, 221, pi. 107.— Boucard, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 70 (Yolcan de Irazu, 10,000 ft.; habits); Gen. 

 Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 10 (Yolcan de Irazu). — Elliot, Classif. and Synop. 

 Troch., 1879, 110.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 497 (Yolcan de 

 Irazii). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus.,Nac. Costa 

 Rica, i, 1887, 121.— Sharpe, Suppl. Gould's Mon. Troch., 1883, pi. 31.— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 357.— Hartert, No^'it. 

 Zool., ii, 1895, 68 (Faldas de Irazii, La Estrella de Cartago, and Santa Maria 

 de Dota, Costa Rica; descr. adult male and female). 



[Selasphorus] flammula Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 84. — Mul- 

 sant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 227. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 141. 



S[elasphorus] flammula Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 341 

 (diagnosis, etc.). — Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 205. 



Selasphorus flammula flammula Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 547 (high 

 mts. of central Costa Rica). 



[Selasphorus platycercus] var. flammula Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 459. 



Selasphorus {platycercus, var.?) flammula Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 459, footnote. 



[Trochilus] flammula Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 144, no. 1866. 



Selasphorus torridus (not of Salvin) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 415 

 (Costa Rica); ^di, 1884, 14 (Yolcan de Irazu).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 354, part (citation of S. flammula Nuttiag and 

 loc. Yolcdn de Cartago). 



SELASPHORUS TORRIDUS Salvin. 



HELIOTROPE-THROATED HTTMMING BIRD. 



Very similar to S. flammula, but adult male ^\'ith throat (''gorget") 

 very different in color (dull metalUc grayish green faintly glossed 

 with purple or dull grayish purple faintly glossed with dull green) ; 



0- Ten specimens. 



