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])utfy on chin, the abdomen dull bufty whitish; bill iind feet as in adult 

 male; length (skin), 100.6; wing, 52.8; tail, 3t).l; exposed culmeu, 

 10.4; tarsus, 17.3; middle toe, 11.4.' 



Young {h(}th sexes). — Above plain olive; beneath paler olive. 



Highlands of Costa Rica and Chiriqui. 



Digloi^sn jdnmbea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., viii, Nov., 1860, 411 (Costa Rica; coll. 

 Berlin Mus. ).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 275 (monogr.).— 

 Lawkence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 97 (San Juan and Quebrada Honda, 

 Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Irazii, San Juan, and 

 Candelaria, Costa Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 185 ( Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, Chiriqui). — Sclater, Ibis, 1875, 217 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 9.— BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, 54 (Cartago, 

 Navarro, Naranjo, Volcan de Irazu, and La Laguna, Costa Rica, 4,000-8,000 

 ft.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 243, pi. 15«, 

 figs. 1, 2.— Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 108 (Volcan de 

 Irazii). — Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 529 (descr. young). 



[Diglossa] phunhea Sclater and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 15. 



Genus CHLOROPHANES Reichenbach. 



Chloroplunics'^ Reichenbach, Handb. d. sp. Orn., i, 1853, 233. (Type, Ccereba 

 atricapilla Vieillot, = Certhia spiza Linnaeus. ) 



Rather large Coerebidffi with the bill as long as or longer than head, 

 slightly decurved terminally, the maxillary tomium more or less dis- 

 tinctly notched subterminally; adult males glossy green, with pileum 

 and sides of head black; or if violet-blue, the pileimi also blue. 



Bill al)out as long as head, or a little longer, narrow, gradualh' taper- 

 ing and slightly decurved terminally; culmen straight or nearly so for 

 about basal half, then gentlv deciirved to the tip; gonys straight or 

 very slightly concave toward tip; maxillar}' tomium with a slight sub- 

 terminal notch. Nostril exposed, longitudinal, narrow, overhung by 

 broad membrane. Rictal bristles minute, very weak. Wing moder- 

 ate, rathiM- pointed (eighth, seventh, and sixth primaries longest, ninth 

 much longcn- than fifth), the tip a])()ut eciual to length of tarsus. Tail 

 nuich shorter tiian wing (decidedl}' shorter than distance from bend of 

 wing to tip of secondaries), emarginated. Tarsus rather short (about 

 one-fourth as long as wing or a little less, less than length of commis- 

 sure), its scutella rather distinct; middle toe with claw shorter than 

 tarsus. 



Coloration. — Plimiage very glossy; adult males bright green or 

 bluish green, with pileum and sides of head black, or else violet- blue 

 with loi"es, wings, and tail black; adult females^ similar but duller in 

 color, without black on head. 



' One specimen. 



'■Xk'^poc, viridis, <pav6c, lucidus. 



'The female of tlie blue species, ('. jiurpuruscenn, is unknown. 



