54 Ridgway New Forms of Micropodidse and TrochUidie. 



usually more broadly tipped with white; adult male similar to that of 

 C. n. jnmaicensis, but wing averaging longer and tail decidedly shorter, 

 and general color of head and neck decidedly more grayish. Adult male? 

 (type): Wing, 155 mm.; tail, 57; exposed culmen, 6; tarsus, 12; mid- 

 dle toe, 9. 



Phoethornis longirostris veraecrucis subsp. nov. 



Type from Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, southeastern Mexico. No. 177,330, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Adult male. May 23, 1901, A. E. Colburn. 



Similar to P. L mexicanus (of southwestern Mexico) in white (instead 

 of buff) terminal margins to lateral rectrices, but much smaller, and paler 

 in coloration. Adult male: Wing, 00-65.5 (62.9) mm.; tail, 65-70 

 (67.9); culmen, 39-42.5 (40.3).* 



Phoethornis adolphi saturatus subsp. nov. 



Type from El Hogar, Costa Rica. No. 26,741, coll. Carnegie Museum. 

 Adult male. December 19, 1905, M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Similar to P. a. adolphi (from southern Mexico), but adult male decid- 

 edly darker, especially chin, throat and chest, the first being distinctly 

 dusky. 



Guatemala to Panama. (Guatemalan specimens are intermediate, but 

 seem to be more like those from Costa Rica than like those from Mexico. ) 



Eupherusa eximia nelsoni subsp. nov. 



Type from Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, Mexico. No. 155,363, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. (Biological Survey Coll.) Adult male. February 28, 1894, Nelson 

 and Goldman. 



Similar to E. e. eximia, but larger, especially the bill; green of under- 

 parts more yellowish, and black tip to lateral rectrices with line of de- 

 marcation against the basal white decidedly oblique and much less sharply 

 denned. 



Adult male. Length, 93-103 (98) mm.; wing, 60.5-61 (60.7); tail, 34- 

 35.5 (34.7); culmen, 18.5-19 (18. 7). t 



Amizilis bangs! sp. nov. 



Type from Volcan de Miravalles, northwestern Costa Rica. No. 16,682, 

 coll.E. A. and O. Bangs. Adult male. September 7, 1895, C. F. Under- 

 wood. 



Similar to A. cinnamomea cinnamomea, but whole side of neck, includ- 

 ing lateral portions of lower throat, metallic greenish bronze or bronze- 

 green instead of light cinnamon-rufous. 



*Adult males of P. 1. mexicanus measure as follows: Wing, 67-C9.5 (68.1) ; tail, 83-87 

 (84.6) ; culmen, 45.5-47 (46.1). 



t Two specimens. The corresponding measurements of a series of eleven adult males 

 of E. e. eximia (ten from Guatemala, one from Nicaragua) are as follows : Length, 84-93 

 (89) ; wing, 56.5-61 (58.7) ; tail, 32,5-34.5 (33.5) ; culmen, 16-19 (17.6). 



