NICARAGUAN HERMIT 



A common forest species in Panama, likely to 

 be found on the Caribbean side of the Zone. 



4. Phcethornis longirostris cassini Lawrence 

 Nicaraguan Hermit 



Phcethornis longirostris cephalus RIDGWAY, Birds of 

 N. and M. Amer. V, p. 321, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 254. 



Length. Male, 159 mm. (6. 2 5 in.); tail, 67mm. 

 (2.60 in.). Female, 147 mm. (5.80 in.); tail, 

 66 mm. (2.60 in.). 



Sexes alike. Top of head brownish glossed 

 with bronze green; back, scapulars and lesser 

 wing coverts dull metallic bronze green; rump 

 and upper tail coverts tawny buff barred with 

 dusky, tail terminally black tipped with whitish, 

 the middle pair of feathers much elongated and 

 terminated with white; a streak of buffy white 

 above, and in continuation of eye; a dusky patch 

 below the eye and extending to cover the ear 

 coverts, bordered below by a streak of dull 

 whitish; chin and throat creamy buff bordered 

 on each side by a stripe of brownish buff ; remain- 

 ing underparts dull buffy gray, barred with 

 brownish gray. 



Bill very long and much curved, black with 

 base of mandible yellow. 



A very large species with elongated middle tail 

 feathers and very long curved bill. Very com- 

 mon in jungle and wild banana thickets. Hovers 

 in a very upright position. Builds its nest on the 

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