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across middle portion greatly reduced in width or obsolete; remiges 

 dusky, faintly^ glossed with violaceous; malar region, chin, throat, 

 and chest white, the chin and throat usually flecked or punctulated 

 with dusky bronze; rest of under parts light cinnamon-rufous, the 

 sides of breast glossed with bronze or bronze-green; bill blackish or 

 dusky, the mandible usually more brownish for basal half or more; 

 iris dark browni; feet dusky; length (skins), 64-67 (66); wing, 

 36.5-39 (37.8); tail, 17.5-22 (20.4); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.4).« 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female but lower throat with 

 greater or less admixture of metallic green feathers, and rump-band 

 narrower. 



Costa Rica (San Jose; San Pedro de San Jose; Escazu; Volcan de 

 Irazu; Juan Vinas; Barranca; Boruca; San Pedro) and western 

 Panama (Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui; Bibalaz). 



Lophornis adorabilis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 207 (Bugaba, Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, Panamd; coll. Salvin and Godman); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 425 (Bugaba and Bibalaz, Panamd). — Elliot, Classif. and Synop. 

 Troch., 1879, 135.— Sharpe, Suppl. Gould's Mon. Troch., 1880, pi. 35.— 

 Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 122 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, 542 (San Jose); Rep. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. for 1890 (1891), pi. 30, fig. 2.— Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 

 1882, 45 (Boruca, s. w. Costa Rica); Auk, ix, 1892, 324 (Boruca; San Jose). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 365, pi. 57, figs. 1, 2. — 

 BoucARD, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 73 (Chiriqui, Panama); Gen. Hum. 

 Birds, 1892, 34 (Bugaba). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., 

 Torino, xiv, 1899, no. 339, 7 (Chii'iqui) .—Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 296 

 (Boruca). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 553 (Costa Rica). 



[Lophornis] adorabilis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 83. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 143. 



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



Dialia adorabilis Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 

 1875, pi. 25, fig. 1; iii, livr. 3, 1876, 208 (Bugaba). 



[Dialia] adorabilis Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 223. 



Genus POPELAIRIA Reichenbach. 



Gouldia (not of Adams, 1847) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 86. (Type, 



Trochilus langsdorjfi Bonnaterre and Vieillot.) 

 Popelairia Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 12. (Type, Trochilus popelairii 



Du Bus.) 

 Popelairea (emendation) Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 41.— Hartert, Das Tierreich, 



Troch., 1900, 222. 

 Gouldomyia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vii, pt. 2, 1854, 257. (Type, 



Trochilus langsdorjfi Bonnaterre and Vieillot.) 

 Prymnacantha ^ Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, April, 1860, 64. (Type, 



Trochilus popelairii Du Bus.) 

 Primnacantha (error) Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 223. 

 Tricholopha c Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 209, in text. (Type, Popelairia 



tricholopha Reichenbach = TrocAiZtts popelairii Du Bus.) 



a Ten specimens from Costa Rica. 



b "Von r^pupva (Hintertheil, Schwanz) und aKavOa (Dorn)." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



c "Von dpc^, Haar; und X6(:l>og, Helmbusch." (Heine.) 



