310 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



following year I secured another on March 10, 1964, at 575 meters 

 elevation on the Rio Tacarcuna. A young male from Portobelo, and a 

 female from Cerro Brujo, taken by Goldman show the darker under 

 surface usual in this race. The identification needs confirmation from 

 adult males. 



The stomach of 1 taken by E. A. Goldman on Cerro Pirre was filled 

 with bits of small diptera and fragments of 1 spider. Another held a 

 fulgorid, 4 tiny wasps, and remains of other small hymenoptera. 



Griscom in his description of Thalurania f. subtropicalis (Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, 1932, p. 337), with the type locality above 

 Cali, Valle, Colombia, included Cerro Pirre in the northern limit of 

 the range, but in this was in error. This race in the adult male differs 

 from fannyi mainly in more bronzy green on the posterior crown and 

 hindneck, and in more restricted blue on the back. While adults are 

 distinct, immature males of fannyi show similar markings, which 

 must have led to the error. Actually the range of fannyi extends in 

 Colombia into northern Choco near the lower Atrato at Acandi and 

 Unguia. On the Pacific slope it continues south to Nuqui, and inland 

 to the slopes of the Serrania de Baudo. 



Griscom also was in error in the same paper (loc. cit., p. 335) in 

 his description of Thalurania colombica insulicola when he cited his 

 type, a male taken by W. W. Brown, Jr., February 28, 1899, as from 

 "San Miguel, Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama." The specimen was 

 collected by Brown at San Miguel, but at another place of this name 

 located on the northern slope of the eastern end of the Sierra Nevada 

 de Santa Marta in Magdalena, Colombia. The name insulicola, there- 

 fore, is a synonym of Thalurania furcata colombica (Bourcier) of this 

 region, and has no connection with Panama. 



PANTERPE INSIGNIS Cabanis and Heine: Fiery-throated 

 Hummingbird, Colibri Garganta Roja 



Panterpe insignis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., pt. 3, March 22, 1860, p. 43. 

 (Costa Rica.) 



Large ; highly iridescent green, with flame color on throat ; crown 

 and breast spot violet-blue. 



Description. — Length 112-115 mm. Sexes alike, the plumage highly 

 iridescent throughout ; crown bright metallic blue ; lores, supra-auricu- 

 lar area and nape black with a sheen of coppery bronze ; back and 

 wing coverts metallic green ; upper tail coverts bluish green ; tail blue- 



