386 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



dd. Smaller (wing 48.3; exposed culmen 12.7) ; blue color brighter. (Colom- 

 bia to upper Amazon Valley. ) 



Cyanerpes nitidus, adult male (extralimitaP) 

 aa. General color dull green above, paler beneath, the chest sometimes streaked. 

 (Adult females and young.) 

 b. Under wing-coverts and part of inner webs of secondaries yellow; chest without 

 distinct streaks; throat not huffy. 



Cyanerpes cyaneus, adult female and young (p. 386) 

 bh. Under wing-coverts white, or yellowish white; inner webs of secondaries 

 without any yellow; chest distinctly streaked; throat buffy. 

 c. Lores buffy, like throat; chest streaked with dark green; sides and flanks 

 green streaked with white. 



Cyanerpes caeruleus, adult female and young (extralimital) 

 cc. Lores dusky; chest streaked with blue; sides and flanks plain green. 



Cyanerpes lucidus, adult female and young (p. 390) 



CYANERPES CYANEUS (Lmnaeus). 



BLUE HONEY CREEPER. 



Adult male. — Lores, orbits (terminating in an obtuse angle behind 

 eye), bindneck, back, wings, and tail deep black; crown light turquoise 

 or nile blue; inner webs of secondaries, except terminal portion, part 

 of inner webs of primaries, and part of under wing-coverts canary 

 yellow; rest of plumage uniform smalt blue; bill black; legs and feet 

 vermilion red in life, fading to pale brownish or yellowish in dried 

 skins; length (skins), 105.4-120.9(116.8); wing/ 58.2-68.6 (63.2); 

 tail, 31.3-39.1 (36.6): exposed culmen, 15-18.5 (16.5); tarsus, 13-15.2 

 (11.2); middle toe, 9.7-11.9 (10.7).' 



Adult female. — Above plain dull green or olive-green, the wings and 

 tail dusky with green or olive-green edgings; greater portion of inner 

 webs of secondaries, part of inner webs of primaries, axillars, and 

 under wing-coverts canary yellow; under parts pale olive-greenish, 

 the throat, median portion of abdomen, and tips of under tail-coverts 



Arbelorhina casrulea microrhyncha Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 143 



(Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 Alrbelorhinal longirostristris (err. typ. ) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 96 (Caracas, 



Venezuela; coll. Heine Mus. ).- 

 Crereba longirostris Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 53 (upper Amazon). — Finsch, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 561 (Trinidad). 

 Cyanerpes cseruleus longirostris Oberholser, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 34 (synonymy, 



crit., etc.). 

 This species doubtless divisible into two or more geographic forms or subspecies. 

 * Cyanerpes nitidus (Hartlaub). 



Coereba nitida Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., 1847, 84 (n. Peru; coll. Bremen Mus.). — 



Sclater Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 53 (Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xi, 1886, 35. 

 AlrbelorkirKi] nitida Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 96, footnote. 

 Cyanerpes nitidus OuKHMoi^smi, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899,35 (synonymy; range). 

 ^Twenty -two specimens, from Middle xVmerica. 



