300 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



record to date from Darien. This species crosses to the Caribbean 

 side in the lower valley of the Rio Chagres as McLennan secured it 

 in his work along the line of the railroad, with some of his specimens 

 marked Lion Hill. There are sight records for it on Barro Colorado 

 Island. 



Near Utive, at the southern base of the Cerro Azul on March 17, 

 1949, I saw 2 in a small weed-grown field beside the Rio Cabobre. 

 They poised briefly motionless in the air, one half a meter above the 

 other. Later I found another probing slowly in the corollas in a head 

 of flowers, an individual that I secured. In 1961, Dr. A. G. Fairchild 

 of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, gave me a male taken on Janu- 

 ary 31 at Zumbador in the Cerro Azul. 



LOPHORNIS ADORABILIS Salvin: Adorable Coquette, Coqueta 

 Adorable 



Lophornis adorabilis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, November 1870, p. 207. 

 ( Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Very small ; upper breast white, elsewhere rufous on under surface 

 and tail ; male, throat brilliant green, with elongated crest feathers ; 

 female without crest, throat white. 



Description. — Length 70-78 mm. Adult male, forehead, lores, and 

 space around eye metallic copper-bronze, with the concealed bases 

 of the feathers white ; center of crown, and a short crest of narrow, 

 filamentous feathers, pure white ; rest of crown and upper surface to 

 the middle of the back, with the lesser wing coverts, dark bronze- 

 green ; rump cinnamon, broadly banded with white to buffy white, 

 upper tail coverts dark coppery purple, with the longer feathers dull 

 grayish brown; tail rufous, more or less edged with dull bronze- 

 green ; wings, including the primary wing coverts, dull black, glossed 

 with purple ; f oreneck to chin and auricular region bright emerald- 

 green, with a narrow, finely pointed plume of the same color that 

 extends from the latter area to the center of the back ; lower f oreneck 

 white ; sides metallic bronze-green ; rest of lower surface cinnamon- 

 rufous. 



Adult female, without decorative head plumes ; forecrown sooty 

 with a sheen of bronze ; rest of upper surface to tail like male, except 

 that the rump band usually is brighter buff; rectrices centrally 

 bronze-green, with a black subterminal band, and base and tips 

 rufous; foreneck white, speckled with light bronze-green; elsewhere 

 as in male. 



