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Coloration.—Plumage in general soft and blended; coloration plain 
dusky bronze-green (sometimes black on under parts), brightest on 
posterior upper parts, the upper tail-coverts usually bluish; tail 
black, the rectrices usually tipped with dull grayish. Adult males 
with a frontal patch of bright metallic green, blue, or violet, the 
feathers scale-like. 
Range.—Costa Rica to Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, in moun- 
tains. (Four species.) 
HEMISTEPHANIA VERAGUENSIS (Salvin). 
VERAGUAN LANCE-BILL. 
Adult male-—Forehead bright metallic green or bluish green 
(emerald green to viridian); crown, occiput, and hindneck dark 
bronze (varying from greenish to coppery); back, scapulars, rump, 
and lesser wing-coverts rather dark metallic green (dark parrot green 
to bottle green); upper tail-coverts dark metallic greenish blue or 
bluish green (indigo to nearly myrtle green); tail black, faintly 
glossed with greenish, the rectrices (except middle pair) tipped with 
deep brownish gray; larger wing-coverts dull black more or less 
glossed with metallic green, especially at tip; remiges blackish slate 
or slate-black, faintly glossed with purplish blue; chin and throat 
dark sooty gray or dusky, faintly glossed with green or bluish green; 
under tail-coverts sooty gray or dusky, more or less glossed with 
metallic bluish; femoral tufts grayish white; rest of under parts 
rather dull metallic bronze-green, the feathers deep sooty gray 
beneath surface; bill dull black; irs dark brown; feet light brown- 
ish (Gn dried skins), claws blackish; length (skins), 110-117 (116); 
wing, 57-60.5 (58.8); tail, 30.5-33.5 (82.8); culmen, 33.5-37 (35.2).¢ 
Adult female—Similar to the adult male but forehead dusky 
bronze, like rest of pileum, instead of greenish, and general coloration . 
slightly duller, especially the under parts; length (skins), 113-116 
(114); wing, 54.5-60.5 (56.7); tail, 30-32 (31.4); culmen, 33-35 
(34.3).° 
@ Eight specimens. b Six specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
culmen. 
MALES, 
Six adult males from Costa Rica........2-.2--222eeeeeeeee eee ene eeenceneeeeenes 58.7 33.3 35.6 
Two adult males from Panamé..........-.22 eee n cece cen e eee cece en cenneecenes 59. 2 31.2 34.2 
FEMALES. 
Four adult females from Costa Rica. cool), BRE S12 34.8 
Two adult females from Panamé.....-..- cee cece eee eect eee ee nee e en eeee recs 55.7 31.7 33.5 
