280 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



no. 48, 1965, p. 2), based on the form of the nest. The genera 

 Androdon through Entoxeres in Peters' arrangement have nests 

 attached to the under surface of leaves, like those of palms, with an 

 elongated, trailing tail of the nest material hanging below. All other 

 genera according to Ruschi have the usual fairly compact cup-shaped 

 nests. 



Figure 41. — Green-fronted lancebill, pico lanza frentiverde, Doryfera ludoviciae. 



DORYFERA LUDOVICIAE VERAGUENSIS Salvin 



Dorifera veraguensis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 1867, p. 154. 

 (Cordillera de Tole, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Characters. — Darker ; forehead metallic blue to bluish green ; crown 

 darker; upper tail coverts darker blue; lower surface darker, espe- 

 cially on the throat. 



Measurements. — Males (11 from Costa Rica and western Panama) 

 wing 58.4-61.0 (59.3), tail 31.0-32.8 (31.7), culmen from base 

 34.0-37.9 (36.1) mm. 



Females (5 from Costa Rica and western Panama) wing 55.9-56.7 

 (56.3), tail 28.2-31.7 (30.7), culmen from base 34.8-37.8 (36.2) mm. 



Resident. Apparently rare; upper Tropical Zone in Chiriqui 

 (Volcan de Chiriqui; Cordillera de Tole) and Veraguas (Chitra). 



This form is little known in Panama. It was named by Salvin 

 from a single specimen taken by Arce on the Cordillera de Tole. 

 He secured others later farther west that unquestionably were taken 

 on the volcano, but marked only "Chiriqui." W. W. Brown, Jr., in 

 1901 collected 2 females at 2,130 and 2,280 meters above Boquete on 



