BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



521 



DAMOPHILA PANAMENSIS Berlepsch. 



PANAMA HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to D. fidise, but adult male with pileum dull or dark 

 metallic greei^ similar to or darker than color of back, instead of 

 brilliant yellowish emerald green, like throat. 



Adult male. — Above metallic green or bronze-green, usually more 

 bronzy on rump, darker (or at least not brighter) on pileum; tail 

 glossy blue-black; remiges very dark brownish slate or blackish, 

 faintly glossed with violaceous; malar, suborl^ital, and auricular 

 regions, chin, throat, and sides of neck brilliant metallic green, 

 more yelloAvish or golden anteriorly, purer green or sometimes even 

 bluish green posteriorly; rest of under parts rich deep metallic 

 \aolet-blue (dark smalt blue or hyacinth blue), the under tail-coverts 

 slightly glossy bluish or greenish black, the femoral tufts white; 

 maxilla dull black, mandible pale brownish or dull whitish (pink 

 or reddish in life) ; iris dark brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 78-93 

 (86) ; wing, 41.5-44 (43.4) ; tail, 29-31 (30.4) ; culmen, 14-15.5 (14.7) .« 



AduU female. — Above bright metallic bronze-green, more decidedly 

 bronzy on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail blue-black, the middle 

 pair of rectrices usually more or less tinged with dark bluish green, some- 

 times wholly of this color, the outer pair of rectrices broadly tipped 

 with pale gray, the next pair more narrowly tipped with the same; 

 remiges dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts pale 

 gray, passing into white posteriorly, the sides of throat sometimes 

 spotted with metallic green; bill, etc., as in adult male; length 

 (skins), 74-78 (77); wing, 41.5-44 (42.6); tail, 25-27.5 (26.4); cul- 

 men, 15-16 (15.5).'' 



Panama (Lion Hill; Panama; Cameron; Paraiso; Chepo, on Rio 

 Bayano ; Calovevora, A^eragua) ; Costa Rica ? 



Juliamyia typica (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862. 2S2 

 (Lion Hill, Panama); ix, 1868, 128 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1869, 317 (Costa Rica).— Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 233, part 

 (Panama). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 21. 



a Nine specimens. 



b Five specimens. 



Locality. 



MALKS. 



Eight adult males from Panamd, 43.4 .30.4 14.fi 



One adult male said to be from Costa Rica 44 30.5 15.5 



Eight adult males of D. julix julix 43. 8 31. 5 14.5 



Ten adult males of D. julix fdiciana 43. 7 31. 1 15. 1 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females of D. panaTOCw«?s 42.6 20.4 15.5 



Four adult females of D.Juto/eHdana 42.4 27.2 15.4 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



