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the remaining under parts (except under tail-coverts) white spotted 

 with metaUic bronze; under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous; maxilla 

 dusky, mandible pale brownish basally, dusky terminally; length 

 (skins), 60-71 (65); wing, 37.5-41 (38.9); tail, 18.5-21.5 (20.2); 

 exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.3).« 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Santecomapam; Chiquilmita; Catemaco; Tospdm; San Andres Tuxtla) 

 and Chiapas, southward through Guatemala (Coban; Chisec; Guate- 

 mala City; Chiquilmitra, Vera Paz; Peten) and Honduras (San 

 Pedro Sula) to Costa Rica (Turrialba; Tucurriqui; Bonilla; Juan 

 Vinas; Guayabal; Guayabo; El Naranjo; San Pedro; Las Pavas; 

 Cachi; San Carlos). 



Ornismya helenae Delattre, Echo du Monde Savant, 1843, 991, in text (Vera 



Paz, Guatemala); Rev. Zool., 1843, 133. 

 M[ellisuga] helenx Gray, Gen. Ends, i, Dec, 1848, 113. 

 [Lophornis] helenae Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 83.— Reichenbach, Aufz. 



der Colibr., 1854, 12; Troch. Enum., 1855, 9, pi. 811, fig. 4892. 

 Lophornis helenx Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. x, Sept., 1855; vol. iii, 1861, pi. 123; 

 Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 84.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 288 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 295 (Coban, Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala).— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 130 (Cobdn, Guatemala).— 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1860, ,194, 196, 267 (Cobdn; habits); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvi, 1892, 425 (Cobdn and Chisec, Guatemala; Turrialba and Tuccurique, 

 Costa Rica).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 145 (Costa Rica).— 

 De Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 300 (Chiapas); Troq. de Mex., 1875, 54.— 

 BoucARD, Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 2 (Jalapa, C6rdova, and Chiquil- 

 mita, Vera Cruz; habits, etc.); Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 15 (Cor- 

 dova, Santecomapam, and Catemaco, Vera Cruz); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1892, 

 34 (Tospdm, San Andres Tuxtla, etc., Vera Cruz).— Zeledon, Cat. Aves 

 de Costa Rica, 1882, 21; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 122.— Ridg- 

 WAY, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), pi. 30, fig. 1; Condor, vii, 1905, 

 157, in text (Bonilla, Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1892, 364 (San Pedro Sula, Honduras; El Naranjo, Costa Rica; 

 etc.).— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 552 (Caribbean slope Costa 

 Rica, 1,000-4,000 ft.). 

 [Lophornis] hclenx Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 83. — Sharps, 



Hand-list, ii, 1900, 144. 

 L[ophornis] helenae Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 219. 



a Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



M.\LES. 



Two adult males from Vera Cruz (Cdrdova), Mexico 



Nine adult males from Guatemala 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from Guatemala 



Nine adult females from Costa Rica 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



10.2 

 11.4 

 11.4 



12.2 

 n.7 



