290 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



pendant twigs or stems of vines, usually above running water. The 

 2 eggs usual among hummingbirds constituted the set. 



Lawrence's name merrittii was based on an immature bird, ap- 

 parently a male, forwarded by Dr. J. King Merritt from El Mineral, 

 Veraguas. This district is located inland from the north coast at 

 the foothills along the Rio Santiago, a tributary of the Rio Con- 

 ception, a short distance west of the present boundary with western 

 Colon. The subspecies ranges locally from Nicaragua and Costa Rica 

 through Panama. Zimmer (Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 1463, 1950, p. 11) 

 has noted that males from Central America have the crown cap 

 distinctly blue, while in Klais g. guimeti and K. g. pallidiventris of 

 northern South America this area is violet or purplish blue. In our 

 series females from Panama also have the crown bluer than those 

 of the southern forms. 



LOPHORNIS DELATTRI LESSONI Simon: Rufous-crested 

 Coquette, Coqueta Corona Leonada 



Figure 43 



Lophornis (Telamon) Lessoni Simon, Hist. Nat. Trochilidae, 1921, pp. 53, 285. 

 (Bogota, Colombia.) 



Very small ; male with long brown crest and shining green throat ; 

 female with forehead and upper throat brown. 



Description. — Length 64-70 mm. Adult male, crown cinnamon- 

 rufous, with a long crest of slender, pointed feathers ; side of head, 

 hindneck, back, and wing coverts metallic bronze-green ; rump banded 

 with white or cinnamon-buff; upper tail coverts purplish bronze; 

 rectrices cinnamon-rufous, the central pair with a subterminal band 

 and the others with a border of metallic bronze-green ; wings dusky 

 with a purplish sheen ; lores, throat, and foreneck bright shining 

 green, the feathers with cinnamon-buff bases ; below this a few 

 elongated white feathers also with cinnamon-buff bases ; rest of under 

 surface dark bronze-green, mixed slightly with cinnamon-buff ; under 

 tail coverts cinnamon-rufous. 



Adult female, without crest ; anterior area of crown cinnamon- 

 rufous; a band of white to cinnamon-buff across rump; upper tail 

 coverts and lower rump dull purplish bronze; rest of upper surface 

 metallic bronze-green ; central rectrices like back with a broad sub- 

 terminal band of purplish black ; others cinnamon-rufous, bordered 

 and banded with black; upper throat and anterior face cinnamon- 

 rufous, continuous with forecrown, the lower area spotted with 

 bronzy black ; lower foreneck and upper breast dull metallic bronze ; 



