66 TKOCHILI. 



.r. cf ad. sk. Jamaica {J. Hill). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



[Faded specimen, probably A. fidirjiriosus, Hill : see Gray, IIand-1. i. 

 p. 134.] 

 y. S ad. st. [Jamaica.] 



13. MICROCHERA. 



Type. 



Microchera, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 116 (Sept. 



1858) ; Intr. Troch. p. 82 M. albocoronata. 



Range. Nicaragua, Costa llica, and the State of Panama. 



Key to the Sjiecies. 



a. General plumug-e dark with reddish coppery re- 

 flections ; terminal band of the lateral rectrices 

 narrow and sharply defined albocoronata, p. 6(). 



h. General phimage lighter and more purple ; ter- 

 minal band of the lateral rectrices wider and 

 less definite parvirostris, p. 67. 



1. Microcliera albocoronata. 



Mellisuga albocoronata, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vi. p. 137, pi. 4. 

 Microchera albocoronata, Gould, Mon. Truck, ii. pi. 1 16 (Sept. 1858) ; id 



Intr. Troch. p. 82 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 122 ; Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 154, 1870, p. 207 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 134 ; v. Frantz. J. 



f. Orn. 1869, p. 31o ; Mills. Hist. Nat. Ois.-M ouches, iii. p. 134, 



pi. 81 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 221 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 104. 

 Chrysolampis albocoronata, Mids. c^- J'err. Class. Troch. p. 57 



(1805). 



Adult male. Upper surface nearly black viewed from in front, 

 rich dark shining coppery red when viewed from behind ; whole 

 crown pure silky white ; under surface like the upper, the throat 

 washed with dark green ; under tail-coverts white ; tail with 

 central rectrices dark bronze, the rest white for two-thirds of their 

 length from the base, the remaining third blue-black with a narrow 

 white terminal edge ; bill black. Total length about 2*7 inches, 

 wing 1-5, tail 0-75. 



Adult female. Upper surface shining grass-green, more golden on 

 the rump and central rectrices ; under surface pure white ; rest of 

 the tail white, with a subterminal blue-black band. 



Young male like the female ; dark plumage of the adult showing 

 lirst on the throat and middle of the abdomen, the white crown 

 being assumed at the last. 



Hab. State of Panama, mountains of the western portion. 



«-/. (S ad. ; g, h. Santiago de Veraguas, Panama Salvin-Godman & 

 (S juv. sk. (Arce). Gould CoUs. 



