536 BULLETIN 50^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



THALURANIA TOWNSENDI Ridgway. 



HONDTTRAS WOOD-NYMPH. 



Adult male similar in color of upper parts to T. colomhica, but 

 under parts with breast and abdomen green instead of violet-blue or 

 bluish violet; similar in coloration of under parts to T. hypocJilora (of 

 Ecuador), but forehead bluish violet or violet-blue instead of emerald 

 green. 



Adult male. — Forehead bright metallic violet-blue or bluish violet 

 (royal purple) ; rest of pileum dull dusky metallic green, the hindneck 

 more bronzy green, varying to bronze; upper back crossed by a band 

 of opaque velvety black, immediately succeeded by one of bright 

 violet-blue, this involving also the anterior scapular region; lesser 

 wing-coverts metallic greenish blue or bluish green, the greater 

 coverts black glossed with bluish or bluish green; lower back, rump^ 

 and upper tail-coverts metallic green (varying from slightly bluish 

 green to bronze-green) ; tail dark violaceous steel blue or black glossed 

 with violet-blue ; remiges dusky slate faintly glossed with violaceous ; 

 malar region, chin, throat, and chest bright metallic yellowish 

 emerald green; breast and abdomen similar, but less yellowish green, 

 changing to bluish green in certain lights, the sides of breast and 

 under wing-coverts metallic greenish blue; under tail-coverts glossy 

 blue-black, broadly edged basally with grayish white ; bill dull black ; iris 

 dark brown; feet grayish brown or dusky; length (skins), 98-107 (103) ; 

 wing, 53.5-55.5 (54.3); tail, 36.5-42 (39); culmen, 19.5-20 (19.7).« 



Adult female. — Above metallic green, more bronzy anteriorly (espe- 

 cially on hindneck), duller on pileum, where only tips of the feathers 

 are metallic; middle pair of rectrices metallic bluish green, usually 

 darker (sometimes blackish) terminally; other rectrices glossy blue- 

 black terminally or subterminally, metallic green basally, the two 

 outer pairs broadly tipped with pale gray or dull grayish white; 

 remiges dusky slate, faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts, 

 including malar region, pale brownish gray, passing on sides of neck 

 into golden green or bronze, into metallic green or bronze-green on 

 sides and flanks; anal region, under tail-coverts, and femoral tufts dull 

 grayish white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 91-94 (92); 

 wing, 48-51.5 (49.7); tail, 27-29.5 (28.7); culmen, 20-20.5 (20.1).'' 



Honduras (Rio Segovia; Yaruca) and eastern Guatemala (Gualan). 



Thalurania townsendi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, Aug. 6, 1888, 590 

 (Seg6via R., Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Sal vm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvi, 1892, 78. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 266. — 

 BoucARD, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 102.— Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 

 xxxix, 1903, 144 (Yaruca, Honduras). 



T[halurania] townsendi Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 85 (monogr.). 



[Thalurania] totvnsendi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 115. 



o Three Bpecimens. b Four epecimens. 



