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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



80-94 (87); wing, 53-55.5 (54); tail, 27.5-31 (29.6); culmen, 17- 

 19.5 (18.1).« 



Adult female. — Above similar in coloration to adult male, but fore- 

 head and crown not brighter in color than back, etc., the feathers 

 metallic bronze-green at tip, dusky basally; three outer rectrices (on 

 each side) tipped with brownish gray; under parts very pale brownish 

 gray or dull grayish white, spotted (except on abdomen and median 

 portion of breast) with metallic green, these spots sometimes more 

 bluish on chest; otherwise like adult male; length (skins), 82-90 (86); 

 wing, 47.5-51.5 (49.5); tail, 26.5-28 (27.4); culmen, 18.5-20 (19).^ 



Caribbean slope of Nicaragua (Rio Escondido) and Costa Rica 

 (Rio Frio; Talamanca; Pacuare; San Carlos; Bonilla; Jimenez; 

 Gu^piles; El Hogar), eastern Panama (Colon; Lion Hill; Paraiso; 

 Chepo), and southward through Colombia (Turbo; Lower Magda- 

 lena; Antioquia; Andes de Quindiu; Bogota) to western Ecuador 

 (Guayaquil; Esmeraldas; Balzar Mountains). 



Trochilus (- 



-?) amahilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851, 115 ("New 



Granada "= Colombia; coll. J. Gould). 



[Coeligena, ^. Damophila] amahilis ReiChenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 7. 



[Coeligena] amahilis Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 3, pi. 681, pis. 4496, 4497. 



[Juliamyia\ amahilis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 



Juliamyia amahilis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 17 (Bogota, Colombia); 

 1860, 296 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador). 



Damophila amahilis Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xviii, Sept., 1859; vol. v, 1861, pi. 

 341; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 170. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 

 1862, 292 (Lion Hill, Panama); ix, 1868, 128 (Pacuare, Costa Rica).— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 365 (Lion Hill). — Mulsant and 

 Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 38.— Frantzius, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 

 317 (Costa Rica).— BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 71 (San Carlos, 

 Costa Rica); The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 80, part (Bogotd).— Elliot, Classif. 

 and Synop. Troch., 1879, 234.— Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 21. 



" Twenty-six specimens. 



b Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



MALES. 



One adult male from eastern Nicaragua 



Ten adult males from eastern Costa Rica (Bonilla). 



Seven adult males from eastern Panamd 



Six adult males from central Colombia (Bogotd). . . 



Two adult males from western Ecuador (Guayaquil) 53. 7 



One adult female from eastern Nicaragua 



Two adult females from eastern Costa Rica 



Five adult females from eastern PanamA 



One adult female from central Colombia (Bogotil) 



One adult female from western Ecuador (Guayaquil). 



17 



18.1 

 18.4 

 18.1 

 18 



18.5 

 19.2 

 19.1 

 19.5 

 18.5 



