BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 359 
length (skins), 128-143 (136); wing, 68.5-78 (73.9); tail, 50.5-56 
(53.6); culmen, 30-35.5 (32.1).¢ 
Young male.—Above similar in coloration to adult female; below 
dusky, glossed with bluish green, older specimens showing blue or 
violet feathers of the adult dress appearing first on median line of 
throat and center of breast. 
Young female.—Similar to adult female but green of upper parts 
more bronzy and throat with little if any metallic blue. 
Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (WJalapa; Cordova; Ori- 
zaba; Huatusco; Codtepec; Playa Vicente), Mexico (near City of 
Mexico), Guerrero (Chilpancingo; Omilteme), Oaxaca (Teotalcingo; 
Chimalapa; Tehuantepec; Sierra de Santo Domingo), Tabasco (Teapa), 
and Chiapas (Tumbal4; Gineta Mountains), and southward through 
Guatemala (Choctim; Cobain; Duefias; Guatemala City; Gualan; 
Kamkal; Volcan de Fuego; Volcan de Agua; Totonicapém; Retal- 
huleu), British Honduras (Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (Santa Ana), 
Nicaragua (Matagalpa; San Rafaél, Lake Nicaragua), and Costa Rica 
(Cerro de la Candelaria; Escazi; Volcan de Irazi; La Estrella de 
Cartago; Navarro de Cartago; Azahar de Cartago; La Palma de San 
José; Tucurriqui; La Hondura; Juan Vifias; Tres Rios; Rancho 
Redondo; Cerro de Santa Maria; San Pedro; Santa Maria de Dota; 
Ojuras de Térraba) to western Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriquf; 
Calovévora; Chitra; Cordillera del Chucu). 
Trochilus hemileucurus LicHTENSTEIN, Preis.-Verz. Mex. Vég., 1830, 1 (Mexico); 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 56. 
a Thirty specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
iculmen. 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from southeastern Mexico.........---- 22-220 seen eee ence neces 79.7 56 27.6 
Seven adult males from Chiapas (3) and Guatemala (4)...-.--.-......2eeeeeeees 80.7 55.6 28.5 
One adult male from British Honduras.-...........0..eeee cece cece ence eee e cee 82 55.5 27.5 
Ten adult males from Costa Rica. .... 2.20... e eee e cece cece cence ean eeecencees 79.9 58.2 29.9 
Pon adult Mises (OM. Pans Ge on. coon cue deeeeawsresesessoneensuanaeres erenwnan 77.6 56.9 29.8 
FEMALES. 
Five adult females from southeastern Mexico. ..........scesceccccsecenccereeee 75.2 53.1 31.3 
Six adult females from Chiapas (1) and Guatemala (5).....-.-...-..-e2eeeeeee= 74.5 52.7 31.4 
Two adult females from Honduras and British Honduras...............-------- 76.7 54 30.7 
Ten adult females from Costa Rica..........2.. 2200-2 e ence eee eee e cece eee ereees 73.9 54 33 
Seven adult females from Panama,.............20 eee ee ne cence eee nsec cee e sees 71.6 53.9 32.5 
After careful comparison of seventy adult males and thirty-two adult females I am 
unable to appreciate any constant color differences between specimens from different 
geographic areas. : 
