152 MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VliRAGtTA. [JiUl. 24 



•+'151. Ceryle amazona, Lath. 

 Santiago c!e Veragua. 



-f. 152. Ceryle cabanisi, Tsch. 



Ceryle americcma, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 131). 

 David {Bridges) . 



-f-153. EuTOXEREs AauiLA, Bouic. ; Goultl, Mon. Tiocli. i. pi. 3 ; 

 Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. vi. p. 139. 



District of Belcn, Veragua {Merritt). 



In one of Arch's previous collections from Costa Rica (Tucuvritpu) 

 three specimens of this strange form were sent, showing that its 

 (^'cnhal American range probably extcncis over the whole of the 

 I astern side of Costa llica and Veragua. Api)arently absent from 

 the Isthmus of Panama, it again, like several other Humming-birds, 

 reappears in New Granada and Ecuador. 



4-154. PHAiixHORNis EMiLi.E, Bourc. ; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 44. 



■ Santa Fe. 



Arce has sent quite a number of specimens, both from Costa Rica 

 and Veragua, of a Phaethornis which Mr. Gould and I have com- 

 pared closely with New Granadan specimens of P. emilice without 

 detecting any differences. It is somewhat singular that none of these 

 collections contain specimens of P. lovgirostris, a bird which is very 

 common both to the north and south of Costa Rica and Veragua. 

 Should this species be absent altogether from these countries, we 

 have a curious instance of geographical distribution, each of the two 

 s})ecies, P. emilire and P. hngirostris, having an outlying district 

 detached from what may be considered the metropolis of its range. 

 J\Ir. LaV)'rcnce having recently forwarded to ]\Ir. Gould for inspection 

 the -types of the species of P/i<xfhornis he lately described (Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. Jime, 1866) as P. cassinii, I am enabled to state that 

 they do not differ, according to Mr. Gould, from P. longirostrts 

 (P. cephalus, Bourc. et Muls.). 



4-155. PiiAETHORNis ADOLPHi, Bourc. ; Gould, Mou. Troch. i, 

 pi. 35. 



Santiago de Veragua. 



-f 156. Chalybura iSAUR.E, Gould, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 199, & Intr. 

 Troch. p. 72. 



Santa Fe; Santiago de Veragua. 



Arce has sent both sexes of this species ; the female, which has 

 not been hitherto noticed, I now describe : — 



$ . Svj^ra vi?'idescens pileo ohsciiriore : urojjygio et cauJa aneo 



nitentibus : alis fuscis : subius sordiJe cinerea, crisso albo ; 



rectricibus duabiis utrinqtie exiernis albido terminatis : rostro 



siiperiore fusco, hiferioreflavidO) (qnce fnsco : pedibiisjlavis. 



The only otlier species nearly alhed to this is C. melaiwrrhoa, 



