386 ‘BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Chrysuronia eliciez Gouup, Mon. Troch., pt. xvi, 1858 (vol. v), pl. 328; Introd. 
Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 165.—Sciater and Saxvin, Ibis, 1859, 130 (Guate- 
mala).—ScuatER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 316 (Cob4n, Guatemala).—Law- 
RENCE, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 465 (Isthmus of Panam4); ix, 1868, 128 
(Costa Rica).—Franrtzius, Journ. fir Orn., 1869, 317 (Costa Rica).—Satvin, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 211 (Bugaba and Chitra, Panam4); Ibis, 1872, 
320 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 251, 662 (Coban, 
Chocttim, and Masagua, Guatemala; La Libertdd, Salvadér; La Libert4d and 
Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Volcén de Chiriquf, 
Bugaba, Chitra, and David, Panam4).—Mu.sanT and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. 
Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. i, 1876, 4, 13 (Guatemala, etc.); iv, livr. 3, 1878, 186.— 
Motsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 207.—Bovcarp, Liste Ois. 
récol. Guat., 1878, 47; The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 83 (Verd4gua); Gen. Hum. 
Birds, 1894, 140 (Guatemala; Nicaragua; Verdgua).—ZELEDON, Cat. Aves de 
Costa Rica, 1882, 21.—Extio7, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 169.—Rime- 
way, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 386 (Sucuy4, Nicaragua; crit.); x, 1887, 
591 (Rio Segévia, Honduras); Condor, vii, 1905, 154, in text (Pigres, Costa 
Rica).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 311 (La 
Libertéd and Santo Domingo, Nicaragua; etc.).—CHERRI£, Expl. Zool. 
Mérid. Costa Rica, 1893, 44 (Lagarto and Boruca, s. w. Costa Rica). 
[Chrysuronia] elicie ScrateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 93. 
C[hrysurisca] eliciae CaBANIS and Herne, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 42 (Honduras). 
[Chrysurisca] eliciae Heine and ReicHENow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 180 
(Guatemala; Honduras). 
Hylocharis elicie Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 38.—Banes, 
Auk, xviii, 1901, 359 (Divala, Panam4); xxiv, 1907, 295 (Boruca and Pozo 
del Rio Grande, Costa Rica); Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 29 (Bo- 
quete, Panam4, 3,000 ft.).\—Carrixer, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 530 
(Pacific slope, Costa Rica, 1,000-2,000 ft.). 
[Hylocharis] eliciz Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 15.—Suarps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 111. 
H{ylocharis] eliciae Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 68. 
Genus CHALYBURA Reichenbach. 
[Agyrtria.] 6. Chalybura RetcHenpacn, Aufz. der Colib., March (?), 1854, 10. 
(Type, Trochilus buffoni Lesson.) 
‘Hypuroptila Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. vii (vol. ii), May, 1854, pl. 89. (Type, 
Trochilus buffoni Lesson.) 
[Hylocharis.] 8. Cyanochloris RercHenBacu, Aufz.-der Colib., 1854,-10. (Type, 
Trochilus (Glaucis?) cxruleogaster Gould.) : 
Methon Muusant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 203 (Cat. Ois. Mouch., 
1875, 7). (Type, Chalybura caeruleiventris Reichenbach= Trochilus (Glaucis?) 
cxruleogaster Gould.) 
Rather large Trochilide (length about 105-115 mm.), with pecul- 
iarly modified or specialized under tail-coverts (these downy, semi- 
decomposed, plume-like), stout, straight, or slightly decurved bill 
much longer than head, the tail long (about two-thirds as long as 
wing), emarginate, with broad rectrices, and coloration rather plain. 
Bill much longer than head, stout, straight, or faintly decurved, 
nearly terete but slightly depressed, especially at base; culmen 
rounded except for basal portion, where compressed into a narrow 
