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wrote under niveoventer that "we have a single specimen which was 

 collected on the Panama Railway line by the late Mr. J. M'Leannan." 

 I have examined this bird, now in the British Museum (catalog 

 number 87.3.22.1881) and find that it has the label marked "Lion Hill 

 Station, Panama Railway. 1863. McLeannan." The make of the 

 specimen obviously is not that of McLeannan ( familiar to me through 

 the many specimens from his hand that I have handled). In fact 

 it resembles the usual pattern of those prepared by Salvin. In view 

 of other cases where localities on labels of the Salvin-Godman col- 

 lection from Panama obviously are wrong, I have not accepted this 

 1 specimen as a valid record for the Canal Zone. 



AMAZILIA EDWARD COLLATA Wetmore 



Amazilia edzvard collata Wetmore, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 121, no. 2, 

 December 2, 1952, p. 17. (Head of Rio Anton, near El Valle, Code, Panama.) 



Characters. — Similar to Amazilia e. edward, but darker green 

 above, with much less coppery iridescence ; tail dark reddish brown, 

 intermediate toward niveoventer. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from eastern Code and western 

 Province of Panama), wing 51.1-55.7 (53.4), tail 27.5-29.4 (28.9), 

 culmen from base 19.0-21.3 (19.9) mm. 



Females (5 from eastern Code and western Province of Panama), 

 wing 50.7-53.4 (51.7), tail 26.9-29.2 (28.0), culmen from base 19.9- 

 21.0 (20.5) mm. 



Resident. Eastern Code (El Valle) and the western sector of the 

 Province of Panama (east to La Campana and Capira). 



This population is an intermediate link between niveoventer, long 

 considered a separate species, and the more brightly colored typical 

 edward. 



I have found it common in the level area in the depression at El 

 Valle, especially in the low brush that covered fields abandoned from 

 cultivation within a year or two. Here they were feeding with much 

 fighting, pausing to rest on open perches in the sun. 



AMAZILIA EDWARD EDWARD (De Lattre and Bourcier) 



Trochilus Edzvard De Lattre and Bourcier, Rev. Zool., vol. 9, September 



(November), 1846, p. 308. (Panama City, Panama.) 

 Saucerrotia edzvardi crosbyi Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 282, September 12, 



1927, p. 5. (Punta Garachine, Darien, Panama.) 



Characters. — Tail distinctly rufous-brown, rarely darker ; back cop- 

 pery brown to reddish bronze ; under tail coverts more or less buff ; 



