113. SELASPUOKtrs. 



3'Ji 



a-c. (^ ad. ;c?, c. Nicasio, California (if. 

 cf juv. ;/-^. 5 Henshaw). 



W. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



ad. sk. 

 i. (S ad. sk. 

 j. 2 ad. sk. 



k. 2 ad. sk. 



I. (S ad. ; m. 6 



juv. sk. 

 ?i-p. cS ad. sk. 



Nicasio, Mar. (G. L. Top2>an). 

 Tejon, California, Aug. (H. 



W. H.). 

 Cobuila Valley, California, 



April [F. Stpphens). 

 California {Hardy). 



[California.] 



4. Selasphorus scintilla. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



G. F. Morcom [P.]. 



Gould Coll. 



yalvin-Godman & 

 Gould Colls. 



Trochilus (Selasphorus) scintilla, Gould, P. Z. S. I8o0, p. 162. 

 Selasphorus scintilla, Gould, 3Jon. Troch. iii.pl. 1.j8 (May 1852) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 89 ; Reich. Aiifs. d. Col. p. 13 ; id. Troch. Enuiit. 



p. 10, pi. 853. ff. 5024-26 ; Bp. Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 256 ; Cub. .y 



Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 56; Cab. J.f. Oni. 1863, p. 165; MuU. 



S)- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 89; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 155, 1870, 



p. 209 ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. X. Y. ix. p. 123 ; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 



1869, p. 315 ; Muh. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Motwhes, iv. p. 104, pi. 109; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 227; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. Ill ; 



Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 70. 

 Trochilus scintilla, Gray, Hand-l, B. i. p. 144. 



Adult male. Upper surface, including the upper tail-coverts, 

 shining golden green, rather darker on the crown ; lores and circum- 

 ocular region cinnamon ; throat glittering red ; breast white ; flanks 

 and under tail-coverts cinnamon, the former washed with green ; 

 middle of the abdomen pale cinnamon ; central rectrices cinnamon, 

 •with a median purple-black stripe including the shaft, lateral 

 rectrices purple-black, the inner web almost to the shaft cinna- 

 mon; bill black, the base of the mandible flesh-colour. Total length 

 about 2'7 inches, wing 1"3, tail 1, bill 0"oo. 



Adult female. Under surface white ; throat buff, each feather 

 with a dusky discal spot; tail cinnamon, with a wide subterminal 

 dark band. 



Hab. Costa Eica and C'hiriqui. 



o, b. <S ad. ; c, d. 



2 ad. sk. 

 e,f. ? ad. sk. 



Irazu, Costa Eica {Moyers). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



y. 5 ad. sk. 

 h. j ad. sk. 



is. J ad. ; t-iD. 

 $ ad.sk. 



Barranca, Costa Rica (C'a/*- 



miol). 



Tuciirriqui, Costa liica (Arce) 

 C'hiriqui ( Warszeu-iez) . 



Volcan de Chiricjui (Arce). 



Selasphorus torridtis, 



Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll, 

 Gould Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 

 Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 



Selasphorus torridus, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 20.^ ; Muls. Hist. Nni, 

 f>ix.-Mi,ii<hes. iv. p. 101 : ul. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lijon. xxii. p. 227 

 Elliot, >yn. frorh. p. l]i> : Ridyic. Pr. U. S. Sah Mus. vii. p. 14. 



