BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 605 



Adult male. — Above deep metallic, bronze-green, darker anteriorly, 

 brighter and more bronzy posteriorly; middle rectrices broadly 

 cinnamon-rufous laterally, glossy purplish black medially, this black 

 median stripe sometimes passmg into metallic green on edge of 

 termmal portion on one web; remaining rectrices purplish black, the 

 inner web broadly edged with cinnamon-rufous, this edging inter- 

 rupted subterminally; loral, rictal, and postocular regions and point 

 of dim cinnamon-rufous; chin and throat (gorget) bright metallic 

 purplish red (between crhnson or burnt carmine and pomegranate 

 purple) , the feathers with a concealed broad buify whitish bar across 

 middle portion and pale grayish base; chest white, tinged (especially 

 on posterior portion) with pale vinaceous-cinnamon or pmkish buff; 

 sides and flanks rather dull metallic bronze-green, slightly suffused 

 with cmnamon-rufous, the two lateral areas nearly confluent on 

 upper breast; median line of breast (narrowly) and abdomen pale 

 gray or grayish white; under tail-coverts bufi'y white or pale buff, 

 deeper buff, or cinnamon-buff, mesially; femoral and lumbar tufts 

 buffy white; bill dull blackish, the basal half, more or less, of man- 

 dible brownish (m dried skins); iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 

 (skins), 69-72 (70.5); wmg, 40-40.5 (40.2); tail, 28-29 (28.5); ex- 

 posed culmen, 11.5-12 {ll.l).^ 



Adult female. — Above metallic greenish bronze, much duller on 

 pileum, the lower rump slightly suffused with cinnamon-rufous; 

 middle rectrices metallic bronze-green, the outer web broadly tipped 

 with blackish, the basal half or more of both webs broadly edged 

 with cinnamon-rufous; outermost rectrix light cinnamon-rufous, 

 crossed in middle portion by a broad band of purplish black; inter- 

 mediate rectrices intermediate in coloration, according to position; 

 remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, superciliary, and 

 postocular regions deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut; auricular 

 region dusky, suffused with cumamon-ruf ous ; suborbital and malar 

 regions and sides of chin and throat cinnamon-buff, flecked with 

 dusky; fading into paler buff, more sparsely flecked, on median 

 portion of chin and throat; chest immaculate buffy white; under 

 parts of body light cinnamon-rufous laterally, pale buff or buffy 

 white along median line; under tail-coverts 2)ale cmnamon-buff; 

 femoral and lumbar tufts buffy white; bill, etc., as in adult male; 

 length (skin), 07; wing, 39.5; tail, 24; exposed culmen, IS.'' 



ITighlands of western Panama (Castillo and Calovevora, Veragua; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Selasphonis ardens Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 209 (Castillo, Verdgua, 

 Panamd; coll. Salvin and Godman); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x\'i, 1892, 398. — 



o Two specimens. 



^ One specimen. I am very doul)tful, liowever, whether this is not in reality a 

 temale of 5. scintilla. 



