BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 385 
rarely? varying to bright golden green; remiges dark brownish slate 
or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; chin and extreme upper 
throat dull whitish, the feathers (except, sometimes, on apex of chin) 
with a terminal spot of metallic violet-blue; rest of throat, together 
with upper chest, bright metallic violet-blue; breast, sides, and flanks 
metallic bronze-green (the upper breast or lower chest usually purer or 
more bluish green); abdomen and median portion of breast buffy 
grayish or pale broccoli brown, slightly more buffy on lower abdomen; 
femoral tufts white; under tail-coverts grayish brown, broadly edged 
and tipped with cinnamon; bill pale brownish (pinkish or reddish in 
life), more or less extensively dusky terminally; iris dark brown; feet 
grayish brown or dusky; length (skins), 78-90 (88); wing, 47.5-52 
(49.6); tail, 24.5-29 (26.6); culmen, 17-18.5 (17.6).° 
Adult female—Essentially like the adult male, but under parts 
paler, usually with the violet-blue of throat much more restricted and 
broken by dull whitish margins to feathers; length (skins), 74-83 
(77); wing, 44.5-48.5 (46.8); tail,24 -26 (25); culmen, 17-19 (17.9).° 
Extreme southern Mexico in State of Chiapas (Ocuilapa) and south- 
ward through Guatemala (Cobén; Choctim; Masagua; Retalhuleu; 
Gualan), Salvadér (La Libertad), Honduras (Santa Ana; Rio 
Segévia), Nicaragua (Sucuy4; La Libertad and Santo Domingo, 
Chontales), and Costa Rica (Miravalles; Coralillo; La Vijagua; El 
General; Bolsén; Lagarto; Tendério; Boruca; Pozo del Rio Grande; 
Pozo Aztl de Pirris; Rio Turubales; Pigres; Bagaces; San Pedro del 
Mojon), to western Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui; Divala; 
Bugaba; Chitra; David). 
T[rochilus] elicie Bourcier and Mursant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix, 1846, 
314 (locality unknown); Rev. Zool., 1846, 316. 
Plolytmus] elicie Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 109. 
[Polytmus] elie Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 133, no. 1706. 
[Chrysuronia] elicie Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 75.—Rercnenpacu, Aufz. 
der Colibr., 1854, 9; Troch. Enum., 1855, 5, pl. 722, figs. 4644, 4645. 
[Chrysuronia] elicia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 254. 
@ In only one among eleven specimens examined. 
b Twenty specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | Cab 
MALES 
Five adult males from Guatemala. .........-.-2022-20eecee cece cece ener eee 49.7 27.1 18.1 
Two adult males from Honduras................2.. 20.22 c cence eee eee cee ee eeee 48.5 25.2 18 
Ten adult males from Costa Rica............ 02.22. e ee eee eee eee ee ee teres 49.8 26.8 17.3 
Three adult males from western Panamé..........--..--.-2220-e eee e eee e eens 49.3 26.3 17.3 
¢ Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 
81255°—Bull. 50—11——25 
