BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 357 



Maxtin, etc., Vera Cruz; Tonaguia, Oaxaca; Brit. Honduras; Chilasco, Cerro 

 Zufiil, Las Nubes, Totonicapam, etc., Guatemala; Volcan de San Miguel, 

 Salvador).— Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 90 (Tecpam, 

 Guatemala, 9,500 ft.). 



lAulacorhamphiis] prasinus Sclatbr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 109. 



Aulacorhynckus prasinus Cabanis, Joum. ftir Om., 1862, 331. 



ADLACORHYNCHUS PRASINUS VIRESCENS Ridgway. 



SOTTTHEBlSr EMERALD T01TCANET. 



Similar to A. p. prasinus but smaller (except bill and feet), with 

 tail relatively much shorter; chestnut of under tail-coverts deeper; 

 green of breast, etc., more yellowish (the chest never tinged with 

 blue), and white of throat more yellowish, especially next to green 

 of lower foreneck. 



Adult TTiaZe.— Length (skins), 331-340 (334); wing, 120.5-123.5 

 (122.1); tail, 106-111 (108); culmen, 71-81 ('74.7); tarsus, 33.5-35 

 (34.4); outer anterior toe, 25-27.5 (26.2). « 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 308-312 (309); wing, 117.5-126 

 (120.8); tail, 104.5-111 (107.1); cubnen, 58-67 (62.4); tarsus, 31.5- 

 33.5 (32.5); outer anterior toe, 24-26 (25.1).* 



Honduras (San Pedro; Chasniguas) and northern Nicaragua 

 (Ocotal, Matagalpa, and San Raf&el del Norte). 



Aulacorhamphus prasinus (not Pteroglossus prasinus Gould) Solatek and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 837 (Hondiiras).— Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiv, 1891, 471 (Chasniguas, Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, n. Nicaragua; crit.); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 

 559, part (San Pedro, Honduras; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 



Aulacorhynckus prasinus virescens Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxv, May 4, 

 1912, 88 (Chasniguas, Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



AULACORHYNCHUS CffiRULEOGULARIS CffiRULEOGULARIS (Gould). 



BLUE-THROATED TOtTCANET. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck plain brownish olive, 

 sometimes inclining to olive-green; rest of upper parts plain grass 

 green, the rectrices passing into dull bluish green or greenish blue 

 distally and broadly tipped with deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut; 

 suborbital region, anterior portion of malar region, chin, and throat, 

 plaia dull dark blue, the color brighter along posterior margin of the 

 blue area, darker and duller on chin; rest of under parts plain light 

 yellowish green (between apple green and bice green), the under tail- 

 coverts deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut; maxilla with tomial por- 

 tion (broadly toward base) and an elongated patch on basal or sub- 

 basal portion of the culmeji black, the basal portion connecting the 



o Four specimens, from northern Nicaragua. & Five specimens. 



