39(5 TKOCUILI. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green ; lores cinnamon ; 

 throat glittering lilac-red with a rather leaden hue, the bases of the 

 feathers buff; breast, middle of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 white, flanks washed with shining green ; central rectrices dark 

 shining green, edged towards the base with cinnamon ; lateral 

 rectrices purple-l)lack, with a cinnamon spot on the inner web near 

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

 about 2'7 inches, wing 1'6, tail I'l, bill 0'65. 



Adult female. Duller on the crown ; beneath white, each feather 

 of the throat with a dusky discal spot ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 washed with buft' : lateral rectrices cinnamon at the base, whitish 

 at the tip, and with a purplish-black subterminal band. 



Ifab. Panama. 



a, b. S ad. ; c. $ Volcan de Chiriqui (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. (Types of the species.) 



c?-«. cJ ad. ; _;. 5 Chiriqui (^rce). Salvin-Godman, 



ad. sk. Gould,. & Sclatcr 



Colls, 



6. Selasphorus platycercus. 



Trochilus platycercus, Su\ Phil. Mckj. new ser. i. p. 44<1 , Scotf,At(kf 



iii. p. -i^M ; Orai/, Homl-l. B. i. p. 144. 

 t)rnisniya tricolor, Les». Siippl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 125, pi. 14. 

 Trochilus tricolor, Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxxiv. 

 Trochilus montanus, Less. Lnd. Gen. Troch. p. xxxiv ; Sw. Birds 



Brazil ^- Mex. pi. 74. 

 Selasphorus platycercus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 82 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854,. 



p. 250 ; Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13 ; id. Troch. Rnvm. p. 10, pi. 854, 



ff. 5027-29; Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 140 (Mav 1862) ; id. Intr. 



Troch. p. 89; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 135, pi. 43. tf' 1, 2 ; Scl. ^- Salv.. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 139: Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 196; id. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 3H4 ; Cab. Sr Heine, Mus. Ilein. iii. p. 56 ; ScL Cat. Am. B. p. 298 f 



id. P. Z. S. 18(>4, p. 177 ; Mills. >.y Verr. Class. Troch. p. 89 ; Cooper^ 



Orii. Cal. i. p. 357 : Baird, Brew., if,- Ridyw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 4(J2; 



Le Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 204, pi. ; Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 



iv. p. 94 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 227 ; Elliot, Syn. 



Troch. p. 109. 

 Selasforus platycercus, A. Duyis, La Nat. i. p. 141 ; Villada, La 



Nat. ii. p. 352. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining olive-green ; throat glittering 

 rosy red ; breast white ; middle of the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts whitish, flanks washed with shining green ; central rectrice* 

 shining olive-green, remainder purple-black, the sublateral edged 

 towards the base with cinnamon ; bill black. Total length about 

 y-3 inches, wing 1-95, tail 1-3, bill OH. 



Adult female. Upper surface more golden green ; under surface 

 buff, whiter on the throat and breast, more cinnamon on the 

 flanks and under tail-coverts, each feather of the throat with a 

 dusky discal spot ; lateral rectrices cinnamon at the base, green in 

 tlie middle, white at the tip, and with a dark subterminal band. 



Hid). North America ; Kocky Mountains, and the highlands of 

 Mexico and Guatemala. 



