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PHETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS VERECRUCIS Ridgway. 
VERA CRUZ HERMIT. 
Similar to P. 1. longirostris but tips of lateral rectrices pure white, 
or merely tinged with buff on inner web. 
Adult male—Length (skins), 150-158 (154); wing, 60-65.5 (62.9); 
tail, 65-70 (67.9); culmen, 39-42.5 (40.3).¢ 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cérdova; San Andrés 
Taxtla; Santecomapim; Buena Vista; Motzorongo) ; Oaxaca (Chima- 
lapa), and Tabasco (Teapa). 
Phaethornis longirostris (not Ornismya longirostris Delattre) SctatER, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1857, 227 (San Andrés Tixtla, Vera Cruz).—Satvin and Exuior, 
Ibis, 1873, 5, part (Mexico; synon.; crit.)—Sa.vin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xvi, 1892, 273, 663, part (Chimalapa, Oaxaca).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. 
Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 318, part (Cérdova and San Andrés Tixtla, Vera 
Cruz; Chimalapa, Oaxaca).—Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 377, part 
(Mexico). 
[Phaethornis] longirostris ScLaTER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 78, part. 
Phexthornis longirostris Ex.1o7, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 15, part (Mexico). 
Phaéthornis cephalus (not Trochilus cephalus Bourcier and Mulsant) Goutp, Mon. 
Troch., pt. xvi, 1858, text to pl. 19, part (Mexico). 
Phaetornis cephalus Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 1, 
1873, 64, part (Mexico). 
Phaétornis cephalus D’Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 48, pl. (10), fig. 37. 
[Phaetornis] cephale Boucarp, Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 1 (Santecomap4m, 
Vera Cruz; habits). 
Phethornis longirostris verzcrucis Ripaway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 
19, 1910, 54 (Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.). 
PHETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS MEXICANUS (Hartert). 
GUERRERO HERMIT. 
Similar to P. l. verecrucis in white margins to rectrices but colora- 
tion of under parts much darker, superciliary stripe and anterior por- 
tion of rictal stripe ochraceous-buff instead of cream-buff, and size 
decidedly larger. 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 182-187 (185); wing, 67-69.5 (68.1); 
tail, 883-87 (84.6); culmen, 45.5-47 (46.1).° 
Southwestern Mexico, in States of Guerrero (Dos Arroyos; Chil- 
pancingo; Acahuitzotla; Papayo) and western Oaxaca (Pluma). 
Phaethornis longtrostris (not Ornismya longirostris Delattre) Hartert (E. and C.), 
Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 21 (Dos Arroyos, near Chilpancingo, Guerrero; crit.). 
Phaéthornis mexicanus Hartert, Ibis, iii, ser. 7, July, 1897, 425 (Dos Arroyos, 
near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, s. w. Mexico; coll. Tring Mus.). 
Pihaéthornis] mexicanus Hartert, Ibis, 1897, 429; Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 
21 (monogr.). 
[Phaéthornis] mexicanus SHarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 99. 
@ Four specimens, b Six specimens, 
