FAMILY TROCHILIDAE 369 



(Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 1817, p. 377) stated that it 

 was found on Trinidad. Berlepsch and Hartert (Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 

 1902, p. 88) in discussing this species apparently were not aware of 

 Vieillot's statement on the locality, as in a footnote to the original 

 reference they wrote "We supplement Trinidad." 



PHILODICE BRYANTAE (Lawrence): Costa Rican Wood-star, 

 Estrella Montanesa costarriqueiia 



Doricha bryantae Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 8, 1867, 

 p. 483. (Santa Maria de Dota, Province of San Jose, Costa Rica.) 



Small; male with elongated, narrowed tail, and reddish purple 

 gorget; shaft of outer primary thickened. Female with cinnamon 

 sides and tail tip ; crown darker than back. 



Description. — Length 78-88 mm. Adult male, crown to upper tail 

 coverts dull metallic bronze-green; central pair of rectrices short and 

 broad, about twice as long as upper tail coverts, in color dull metallic 

 green appearing black at tips ; next pair half the length of outer 

 pairs, narrowed at the tips, also dull metallic green ; outer pairs long 

 and narrow, with cinnamon-colored shafts and cinnamon-buff borders 

 on the inner web ; wings, including primary wing coverts, dusky 

 with a purplish sheen; rest of wing coverts like back; a white spot 

 behind the eye; lores black, bordered with cinnamon toward the 

 bill; throat and upper foreneck glittering reddish purple, bordered 

 below on upper breast with white ; lower breast and sides brownish 

 gray glossed with bronze-green; flanks cinnamon-rufous; abdomen 

 and lateral tufts white; tufts on side of rump white to cinnamon; 

 under wing coverts dull green ; edge of wing rufous ; under tail coverts 

 bronze-green, bordered with cinnamon. 



Adult female, above bronzy metallic green, darker on the crown; 

 central pair of rectrices short, about three-fourths as long as the 

 others, dark metallic green; others short, cinnamon-rufous basally, 

 tipped with cinnamon-buff, with a broad subterminal band of black ; 

 lores and spot behind the eye as in male; foreneck, breast, and 

 abdomen cinnamon-buff to white ; sides, flanks, and under tail coverts 

 cinnamon-rufous; sides of breast glossed with dull green; tufts on 

 either side of abdomen white. 



Young male like female. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama), wing 41.0-43.5 (42.2), 

 tail 31.6-35.6 (33.4), culmen from base 15.5-17.7 (16.6) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 41.3-43.7 (42.5), 

 tail 21.0-23.3 (21.9), culmen from base 16.1-18.3 (17.2) mm. 



