330 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF GLAUCIS HIRSUTA. 
a. Larger (wing averaging more than 56, tail more than 34, culmen more than 31 
mm.; upper parts bronze-green or decidedly greenish bronze; sexes different, the 
adult females rufescent beneath, adult males dull russet brownish. 
b. Larger (adult male averaging: Wing 65.1, tail 41.2, culmen 33.3; adult female, 
wing 61.8, tail 39.5, culmen 33.1); color of under parts slightly browner. (East- 
erm South America, including islands of Grenada, Tobago, and Trinidéd.) 
Glaucis hirsuta hirsuta (p. 330). 
bb. Smaller (adult male averaging: Wing 58.6, tail 36.3, culmen 31.3; adult female, 
wing 56.5, tail 34.9, culmen 31.9); color of under parts slightly more rufes- 
cent. (Panama to the Rio Negro and eastern Peru.) 
Glaucis hirsuta affinis (p. 333). 
aa. Smaller (wing less than 54, tail less than 32, culmen less than 31 mm.); upper 
parts bronze or coppery bronze; sexes alike, the adult male as well as female 
rufescent beneath. (Eastern Costa Rica and eastern Nicaragua.) 
Glaucis hirsuta zenea (p. 334). 
GLAUCIS HIRSUTA HIRSUTA (Gmelin). 
HAIRY HERMIT. 
Adult male.—Above metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, duller 
on pileum, where, especially on forehead and crown, the feathers are 
dusky basally and on margins, sometimes wholly dusky; upper tail- 
coverts rather broadly margined terminally with pale buffy grayish 
or grayish buffy; middle pair of rectrices metallic bronze-green, tipped 
(usually narrowly) with dull white, the subterminal portion more or 
less dusky; remaining remiges clear chestnut, crossed by a broad 
subterminal band of dull black (outer web of lateral rectrix also 
mostly black), the tip, narrowly, dull white; remiges dusky, faintly 
glossed with violet-purple; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions 
dusky, the last faintly glossed with bronze or bronze-green; under parts 
dull russet or mars brown (at least on chest), the chin dull whitish, the 
abdomen pale grayish cinnamon or buffy grayish; under tail-coverts 
pale cinnamon, becoming still paler on margin, sometimes with an 
indistinct central area of grayish or olive faintly glossed with bronze- 
greenish; dusky brown or dull. blackish, mandible whitish (pink or 
reddish in life), passing into dusky at tip; iris dark brown; feet dull 
yellowish or buffy (in dried skins); length (skins), 109-131 (123); 
wing, 57.5-68.5 (65.1); tail, 34.5-44.5 (41.2); culmen, 31-35.5 (33.3). 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male but under parts wholly 
and almost uniformly light russet or rusty cinnamon; length (skins), 
@ Fourteen specimens, 
