;306 TEOCHILI. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat wliite. 



«'. Tail purple-black leucaspis, p. 300. 



//. Tail grey cinereicauda, p. 307. 



h. Throat glittering reddish purple. 



c. Chest glittering green calol(Pma, p. 307. 



d'. Chest blackish green pectoralis, p. 308. 



1. Oreopyra leucaspis. 



Trochilus ( ?) castaneoventris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 163. 



Anthocephala ? castaneiventris, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 203 



(Sept. 1885) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 115 ; Mvk. ^ Ven: Class. Troch. 



p. 71 ; Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 123, iv. p. 219. 

 Oreopyra leucaspis, GoiM, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 312 ; id. Mon. Troch. iv. 



pi. 264 (May 1861); id. Intr. Troch. p. 141; Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 153, 1870, p. 205; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 125; 



31uls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 160, pi. 115; id. Ann. Soc. 



Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 203 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 33; Eudes-Desl. 



Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 241 ; Shaiye in Gould's Mon. Troch. Sup2^l- 



(April 1885). 

 Diphlogsena leucaspis, Muls. <§• Verr. Class. Troch. p. Gl. 

 Oreopyi-a castaneiventris, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 163; id. Ibis, 18G9, 



p. 316. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark sliiniDg grass-green, slightly 

 tinged with bronze on the middle of back ; crown glittering bluish 

 green ; wings purple-black ; tail dark steel-blue-black ; a long 

 white postocular stripe ; ear-coverts dark green ; throat pure 

 white, edged below with bluish green ; chest glittering green ; 

 middle of the abdomen grey : flanks green ; under tail-coverts 

 greyish, w^ashed with green and edged with whitish ; bill black. 

 Total length about 4 inches, wing 2-5, tail 1-4, bill 0-95. 



Adult female. Like that sex of 0. calolmna, and not to be dis- 

 tinguished by any certain characters, the crown is perhaps a little 

 brighter. Females from the Volcano of Chiriqui most probably 

 belong to this species. 



Young males have the crown of the same green as the back, the 

 white throat is gradually assumed, and in some specimens bluish 

 feathers are scattered over the surface. 



Trochilus castaneoventris, Gould, subsequently figured as Antho- 

 ceplicda castaneiventris, is most probably the oldest name for this 

 bird. But as it was applied to female specimens obtained by 

 Warszewiez in Chiriqui, where 0. le^icasjiis and 0. calolcema are 

 found, and as the females of these species are not distinguishable 

 with certainty', the names based upon male examples had best be 

 retained. 



Hah. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui. 



a. (S ad. sk. Cordillera of Chiriqui ( Warsze- Gould Coll. 



wiez). (Type of 0. leucaspis, Gould.) 



fi-e. 9 ad.sk. Cordillera of Chiriqui ( TFa/^'^e- Gould Coll. 



iviez). (Type o{ Anthocephala castaneiventris.) 



