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bb. An auricular tuft of elongated acicular (dark metallic green) feathers; a white 

 patch on crovra and a large white patch on chest; forehead coppery. (Costa 



Rica and western Panama.) Lophornis adorabilis, adult male (p. 675). 



aa. Head wdthout crest or tufts; rectrices crossed by a broad band of black. (Adult 

 females and immature males.) 

 b. Forehead light cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon-buff. 



Lophornis delattrei, adult female and immature male (pp. 671,672). 

 bh. Forehead dusky or dark metallic greenish, 

 c. Under parts of body whitish spotted with bronze; tliroat buffy or pale cinna- 



momeous Lophornis helenae, adult female and immature male (p. 673). 



cc. Under parts of body uniform cinnamon-rufous; throat white. 



Lophornis adorabilis, adult female and immature male (pp. 675,676). 



LOPHORNIS DELATTREI (Lesson). 



DE LATTBf 'S COQUETTE. 



Adnlt male. — Pileum, including very conspicuous crest of much 

 elongated, acicular, rather rigid, feathers, uniform cinnamon- rufous; 

 nape, hindneck, back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts metallic 

 bronze-green; a baud of white, pale buff, or cinnamon-buff across 

 upper rump ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts dark purplish bronze; » 

 middle pair of rectrices with edges and terminal portion (more or 

 less extensively) dark bronzy, the basal-median portion deep cinna- 

 mon-rufous; rest of tail deep cinnamon-rufous, the outer webs of 

 rectrices edged with dusky bronze; remiges dull purplish black or 

 dusky glossed with violet^purple ; loral, auricular, and malar regions, 

 chin, and tliroat brilliant metallic yellowish emerald green, the feathers 

 abruptly cinnamon-buff basally (this slightly exposed on latero-pos- 

 terior portion of throat) ; beneath the posterior margin of the green 

 gular area a few narrow feathers, white terminally, pale cinnamon- 

 buff basally ; under parts of body rather dull metallic bronze-green 

 or greenish bronze, more or less broken or intermixed with light 

 rusty brownish; under tail-coverts bright cinnamon-ruf ous ; bill pale 

 brownish (in dried skins), dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet 

 grayish brown (in dried skins) ; length (skins) , 66-68 (67) ; wing, 

 35-38.5 (36.8); tail, 22-22.5 (22.2); exposed culmen, 8.5-10 (9.1).« 



Adult female. — Forehead and anterior portion (sometimes greater 

 part) of crown dull cinnamon- rufous or russet; rest of pileum, hind- 

 neck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts metallic bronze or bronze- 

 green, usually darker on occiput and posterior portion of crown; a 

 band of cinnamon-buff or whitish across upper rump; lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dusky purplish bronze or dull copper-bronze; 

 middle pair of rectrices pale cinnamon-rufous basally, middle portion 

 greenish bronze, terminal portion (broadly) purplish bronzy black 

 (sometimes with a small chestnut or cinnamon-rufous apical spot); 

 remaining rectrices broadly tipped with cinnamon-rufous and crossed 

 by a broad subterminal band of black, the basal portion cinnamon- 



o Five specimens. 



