312 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



DAMOPHILA JULIE PANAMENSIS Berlepsch: Violet-breasted 

 Hummingbird, Colibri Pechiviolaceo 



Damophila panamensis Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 32, pts. 3-4, July-October 

 1884, p. 312. ("Panama and Veragua," here restricted to the Atlantic slope 

 along the Panama Railroad, Canal Zone, Panama.) 



Small ; male, foreneck glittering green, rest of under surface blue. 

 Female differs from that of Lepidopyga c. coernleogularis in smaller 

 size and blue central tail feathers. 



Description. — Length, male 87-92 mm., female 80-84 mm. Male, 

 upper surface metallic green, with the rump more or less bronze- 

 green ; tail blue-black ; wings dusky with a purple sheen ; foreneck 

 and lower side of head brilliant metallic green, in some with a bluish 

 cast ; breast and sides metallic violet-blue; femoral tufts white ; abdo- 

 men and under tail coverts dull black with a sheen of blue or dull 

 green, with the sides of the abdomen adjacent to the femoral tufts 

 partly white. 



Female, metallic bronze-green above, more bronze on rump and 

 upper tail coverts ; tail blue-black to dull bluish green with two outer 

 rectrices tipped with light gray ; wings as in male ; under surface pale 

 gray, whiter on breast ; in some the sides of the throat spotted with 

 metallic green ; under tail coverts dull brownish gray. 



Immature male, at first like female, or with foreneck spotted with 

 shining bluish green. 



Maxilla and extreme tip of mandible black ; rest of mandible orange- 

 yellow (from Museum skins). 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Code, Panama, Canal Zone, and 

 Darien), wing 42.8-45.0 (43.8), tail 28.6-31.4 (30.3), culmen from 

 base 14.2-15.7 (15.0) mm. 



Females (10 from Canal Zone, Panama, and Darien), wing 41.2- 

 43.8 (42.9), tail 25.2-27.5 (26.5), culmen from base 15.6-17.3 (16.5) 

 mm. 



Weight, 11 males, 3.35 ±0.08 grams; 5 females, 3.03 ±0.08 grams 

 (Hartman, Auk, 1954, p. 468.) 



Resident. Common in the lowlands from the western sector of the 

 provinces of Panama and of Colon east to the Colombian boundary in 

 Darien and San Bias. 



In the western area of the Province of Panama I have collected 

 this bird at the border of a mangrove swamp near Bejuco, and also 

 on Cerro Campana, where I secured 1 in the lower edge of the forest 

 at 850 meters. This is the highest elevation at which I have seen 

 this species. On the Caribbean side in western Colon it is found along 



