324 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Phoethornis longirostris mexicanus OBERHOLSER, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 
no. 1258, Jan., 1902, 312 in text, 313 (s. Mexico). 
Plhethornis] I[ongirostris] mexicanus Ripeway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, 
1910, 54, in text. 
PHETHORNIS ANTHOPHILUS HYALINUS (Bangs). 
ISLAND HERMIT. 
Similar to P. a. anthophilus but green of upper parts deeper and 
less bronzy, and feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts less broadly 
margined with brownish buffy; averaging slightly larger (except tail.) 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum plain dusky (nearly clove brown); 
hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts metallic 
green (nearest bice green), slightly tinged with bronze, the feathers 
very narrowly and indistinctly margined terminally with pale brown- 
ish buffy, except on upper tail-coverts, where these markings are 
broader and more distinct; tail metallic bluish green (French green), 
crossed subterminally by a broad band of black, the middle pair of 
rectrices with narrowed and elongated portion white apically, dull 
grayish basally, the other rectrices with median portion of tip dull 
gray and lateral portions white; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with 
violaceous; a broad postocular or supra-auricular elongated spot of 
dull brownish white; loral, orbital, and auricular regions black;. 
rictal and malar regions dull white or buffy white; chin and throat 
buffy grayish, indistinctly streaked with pale buffy or buffy whitish; 
rest of under parts dull brownish white, deeper and suffused with 
brownish buff on sides, the flanks distinctly buffy; maxilla black, 
mandible pale dull yellowish or buffy (in dried skins); iris dark brown; 
feet light brownish (in dried skins), the claws dusky. 
Adult male——Length (skins), 135-139 (138.5); wing, 58.5-61.5 
(59.2); tail, 55-58.5 (56.5); culmen, 35-36.5 (35.7).¢ 
Adult female—Length (skins), 138; wing, 55.5-58.5 (57); tail, 
58.5; culmen, 33-34.5 (33.7).° 
San Miguél Island, Bay of Panama. 
Phaéthornis hyalinus Banes, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1901, 27 (San Miguél Island, Bay 
of Panam4; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs).—Tuayer and Banes, Bull. Mus. 
Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1905, 149 (San Miguél I.). ; 
PHETHORNIS ADOLPHI ADOLPHI Gould. 
BOUCARD’S HERMIT. 
Adult male.—Above rather dull metallic bronze or greenish bronze, 
darker and duller on pileum; lower rump and upper tail-coverts 
a Four specimens. 
b Two specimens. 
Specimens of P. a. anthophilus measure as follows: Four adult males, length (skins), 
128-153 (136); wing, 54.5-61 (57.7); tail, 56-59.5 (58); culmen, 30.5-36 (34.5); one 
adult female, length (skin), 182; wing, 54; tail, 56; culmen, 33, 
