274 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



PHAETHORNIS LONGUEMAREUS SATURATUS Ridgway 



Phaethomis adolphi saturatus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 23, 

 April 19, 1910, p. 54. (El Hogar, Costa Rica.) 



Characters. — More coppery bronze, less green above ; rump faintly 

 paler ; slightly paler on lower surface. 



A male taken near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, February 16, 1966, 

 had the iris dark brown ; maxilla and tip of mandible black ; base of 

 mandible light honey yellow ; basal two-thirds of tongue light honey 

 yellow, tip brownish white ; tarsus and toes pale dull pinkish white ; 

 claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Pan- 

 ama), wing 36.5-39.4 (38.1), tail 29.4-36.4 (32.6), oilmen from 

 base22.9-25.6(23.9)mm. 



Females (10 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama), wing 

 36.9-40.0 (38.3), tail 32.6-36.5 (34.4), oilmen from base 22.6-25.1 

 (23.6, average of 8) mm. 



Weight, 1 female, 2.64 grams (Hartman, Auk, 1954, p. 468). 



Resident. Uncommon locally on the Pacific side in forested areas 

 in the Tropical Zone from western Chiriqui to Veraguas, Code, and 

 Panama ; on the Caribbean slope in Bocas del Toro and western Colon ; 

 more common in the Canal Zone, especially on the Caribbean side ; 

 found rarely in the lower edge of the Subtropical Zone. 



Birds of the Canal Zone are somewhat variable, mainly darker, and 

 thus intermediate toward the race subrufescens of eastern Panama. 

 The few that I have seen from Bocas del Toro and western Colon also 

 average somewhat darker. 



The little hermit was first reported from the Province of Chiriqui 

 by Mrs. Davidson (Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 23, 1938, 

 p. 257) from a female taken near San Felix, November 29, 1931. In 

 February 1956 I found it fairly common in that area in one small 

 tract of forest. Farther west I have seen it occasionally from 1,200 

 to 1,300 meters elevation near El Volcan, Santa Clara, and Sereno (at 

 the Costa Rican boundary). I found it also lower at 750 meters near 

 Buena Vista, above Concepcion, in the lowlands at Canta Gallo, south 

 of Alanje, and along the upper Rio Corotii and the Rio San Bartolo, 

 near the Costa Rican boundary back of Puerto Armuelles. A few were 

 seen near Sona, in Veraguas, in May and June 1953. Salvin (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 152) recorded 1 taken by Arce at Santiago, 

 a specimen that is now in the British Museum. In Code I have found 

 it at El Valle on Cerro Gaital and Cerro Agua. In western Panama 

 I have seen it on Cerro Campana, and have taken it lower down on the 



