224 



25. Amazilia sophise. 



Trochilus sopliire, Bourc. Sf Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. 



p. 318 (1846) ; id. Rev. Zuol. 1846, p. 316. 

 Trochilus caligatus, Gould, P. Z. 6'._1848^, p. 14. 

 Amazilius sophiae, Bp. Consp. A v. i. p. 78. 

 Saucerottia cali<,^at.a, Bp. Consp. Au. i. p. 78. 

 Chlorestes y. Saucerottia sophiaj, Reic/i. Aiifz. d. Col, p. 8. 

 Chlorestes y. Saucerottia caligata, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8. 

 Saucerottia sophise, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 2-55 ; Gould, Intr. Troch. 



p. 162 ; Scl. Cat. A?n. B. p. 315 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 127 ; 



Boiicard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 71 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. 



p. 425. 

 Chlorestes sophise, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 4, pi. 697. ff. 4554-5. 

 Erythronota sophise, Goidd, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 322 (July 1861). 

 Hemithvlaca sophise. Cab. Hf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 38 ; Heine, 



J.f. dm. 1863, p. 192. 

 Hemithylaca hoffmanni, Cab, ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 38 ; Cab. 



J.f. brn. 1862, p. 163. 

 Ai-iana sophite, Muls. Sr Verr. Class. Troch. p. 36 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 328, pi. 28, iv. p. 185 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn, 



Lyo)i, xxii. p. 207. 

 Amazilia sophise, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 224. 

 Polytmus sophise, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 131. 



Adult male. Similar to those of A. warszeiviezi and A, sauceroftli, 

 but rather larger. It has steel-blue under tail-coverts like the 

 former, but differs from both in having the lower back bronzy green, 

 shading into purple on the proximal upper tail-coverts. Total length 

 about 4 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1-2, bill 0-85. 



Young birds are dusky on the under surface, the glittering green 

 feathers of the throat appearing first in the middle and then spread- 

 ing to the sides ; the under tail-coverts are dusky. 



The type of T, sophue, Bourc. & Mula., is said to have come 

 from Bogota ; but the name has of late been strictly associated with 

 the Costa Rica bird, the description applying best to it, rather than 

 to either A. warszewiezi or A. saucerottii, both of which are Colom- 

 bian species. Gould compared named examples of his T. calic/atus, 

 T. sophice, and Hemithylaca hoffmanni, and failed to find any differ- 

 ence between them. 



Hah. Costa Rica. 



a b. S ad.; c. Bebedero, Costa Rica (.4rce). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



d. (S ad. sk, Tucurriqui, Costa Rica (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e~j. d ad. ; k, I. Costa Rica (Endres). Gould Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



m n A ad. sk. ? (Delattre ?). Gould & Sclater 



Colls. 



o, p. cJ ad. ; q. ? Gould & Sclater 



Juv. sk. Colls. 



r. Skeleton. Gould Coll. 



