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plain chestnut; tail metallic bronze or greenish bronze, the rectrices 
broadly tipped with pale chestnut or cinnamon-rufous, paler on 
middle pair, which are sometimes nearly white terminally; remiges 
dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; suborbital and auricular 
regions dusky, margined above by an indistinct supra-auricular 
streak of cinnamon and below (anteriorly) by a more distinct rictal 
streak of the same; chin, throat, and chest light dull grayish cinna- 
mon or isabella color, passing on other lower parts into pale cinna- 
mon-rufous; bill dull black, the basal half (more or less) of mandible 
dull yellowish (yellow in life); iris dark brown; feet dull yellowish 
(flesh colored or whitish in life); length (skins), 91-98 (95); wing, 
38.5-42 (39.5); tail, 33-37.5 (35.4); culmen, 21-22.5 (21.7).¢ 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male but chin, throat, and 
chest pale cinnamon-rufous or pale cinnamon, sometimes quite con- 
color with posterior under parts; length (skins), 92-99 (94); wing, 
37; tail, 38-35 (34); culmen, 21-22 (21.5). 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cérdova; Tospim, 
near Cérdova; Playa Vicente; Jalapa; San Andrés Tiixtla; Buena 
Vista; Pasa Nueva), Oaxaca (Teotalcingo), Tabasco (Frontera), and 
Chiapas (Palenque). 
Phaethornis adolphi ScuaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 287 (nomen nudum; 
Cérdova, Vera Cruz). 
Phaéthornis adolphi Gouxp, Mon. Troch., pt. xiv, Sept., 1857 (vol. i, 1861), pl. 35 
and text, part (Cérdova, Vera Cruz; coll. J. Gould; ex Bourcier, manu- 
script).—ScuaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 
385 (Teotalcingo, Oaxaca; Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz).—D’Oca, Troq. de 
Mex., 1875, 24, pl. (4), fig. 15. 
[Phaéthornis] adolphti Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 122, no. 1532, part.—SHARPE, 
Hand-list, ii, 1900, 100, part. 
Plhaéthornis] adolpht Hartrrt, Ibis, 1897, 430, part (s. e. Mexico); Das Tier- 
reich, Troch., 1900, 25, part. 
Plhethornis] afdolphi] adolphi Ripaway. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 
1910, 54, in text. 
Plygmornis] adolphi Capanis and Heinz, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 7, footnote, 
part (Mexico). 
Pygmornis adolphi Satvin and Exuiot, Ibis, 1873, 271, part (Mexico).—Boucarp, 
Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 2, part (Cérdova and San Andrés Tiixtla, 
Vera Cruz).—Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 
1873, 102, pl. 9; iv, livr. 2, 1877, 144; Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 
201.—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 282, part (Cérdova; Playa 
Vicente; Teapa).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 
319, part (Cérdova; Jalapa; Playa Vicente; Teotalcingo; Teapa). 
[Pygmornis] adolphi ScLateR and Sarvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 79, part. 
Pygornis adolphi Mutsant and VeRREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 19, part. 
Eremita adolphi Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 392, part (Tospém, near 
Cérdova). 
@ Five specimens. b Two specimens. 
