BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 675 



Paphosia helenae Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75; Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 1875, pi. 25, fig. 2; iii, livr. 3, 1876, 205, pi. 91, fig. 2 



(Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica). 

 Paphiosa hclense Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, 70 (San ('arlo.s and 



Turrialba, Costa Rica). 

 [Paphiosa] helenae Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1870, 222. 

 Paphiosa helenae Boucard, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 46. 

 [Trochilus] helenx Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 146, no. 1891. 

 [Lophoriiis] helena Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 

 Lophornis elenx De Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, pi. (8), fig. 43; Troq. de Mex., 



1875, pi. (12), fig. 43. 



LOPHORNIS ADORABILIS Salvin. 



ADORABLE COQUETTE. 



Adult male. — Frontal, ioral, and orbital regions metallic copper- 

 bronze, the feathers pure white beneath surface; a cuneate crest of 

 pure white, elongated, narrowly pointed feathers sj)ringing from 

 posterior portion of forehead and center of crown; sides of crown, 

 occiput, hindneck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts ratlier dark 

 bronze-green; rump and shorter upper tail-coverts dark metallic 

 coppery purple, this area separated from green of back by a narrow 

 band of white, pale cinnamon, or bulFy across upper rump; longer 

 upper tail-coverts pale grayish cinnamon or dull brow^iish buffy 

 broadly tipped with dusky purplish bronze; tail chestnut-rufous, 

 the outer webs of rectrices edged w^tli dusky bronze or bronze-green, 

 the middle pair broadly tipped with the same; remiges and primary 

 coverts didl black, the secondaries and inner primaries more pur[)Hsh 

 dusky; chin and throat bright metallic emerald green, this color 

 extending over the auricular region, from the posterior })ortion of 

 which there springs a much elongated tuft of very long narrowly 

 lanceolate or acicular — almost filamentous — plumes of metallic green; 

 chest white, tinged with cinnamon or buffy grayish laterally and 

 posteriorly; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous, passing into 

 metallic bronze-green on sides of breast; bill pale brownish (coral 

 red in life) the terminal third (more or less) dusky; feet dusky gray- 

 ish brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 71-80 (74); w^ng, 36.5- 

 40.5 (39); tail, 25.5-29 (27.3); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1).'' 



Adult female. — Forehead, and crown, together with loral, subor- 

 bital, and auricular regions, dark sooty, faintly glossed with bronze; 

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

 bronze-green; a broad band of cinnamon-buff (more or less deep) 

 or buffy wdiite across middle of rump; upper tail-coverts dark sooty 

 or sooty black, strongly glossed with bronze or coppery bronze; 

 middle rectrices pale cinnamon-rufous basally, bronze-green in 

 middle portion, black (broadly) subterminally or terminally, usually 

 tipped with light cinnamon-rufous; lateral rectrices similar but 

 broadly tipped with light cinnamon-rufous, and bronze-green ])and 



o Ten specimens from Costa Rica. 



