440 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male, but slightly duller, the 
green of throat, etc., more broken by grayish white subbasal bars 
and pale grayish margins to the feathers, and under tail-coverts with 
broader grayish margins and duller or paler bluish central areas; 
length (skins), 88-96 (92); wing, 50-55 (52.7); tail, 29-31 (80); cul- 
men, 18-20.5 (19.3).¢ 
Young.—Similar to adults, but decidedly duller in coloration, 
especially the under parts, and feathers of rump tipped or terminally 
margined with brown. 
Nicaragua (San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua; boundary line between 
Nicaragua and Honduras, 180 miles from Pacific coast) and Costa 
Rica (San José; Las Cruces de Candelaria; Escazi; Monte Redondo; 
Cartago; Tucurriqui; Bonilla; Carrillo; Cerro Santa Maria; Volcén 
de Miravalles; Bebedero; Barranca de Punta Arenas; Esparta; Rio 
Turubales; Pigres; San Miguél; San Pedro de Mojén; Tenério; 
Orosi; Bolsén). 
T[rochilus] sophiae Bourcrer and Mutsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix, 
1846, 318 (‘‘Bogota”’); ® Rev. Zool., 1846, 316. 
Plolytmus] sophiz Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec., 1848, 109. 
[Polytmus] sophiz Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 131, no. 1670. 
[Amazilius] sophiz Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 78. 
[Chlorestes. 7. Saucerottia] sophiae ReicHensacu, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854; 8. 
[Saucerottia] sophia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 
Saucerottia sophie GouD, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 162.—SciaTER, Cat. Am. 
Birds, 1862, 315 (‘‘Central America”).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 
1868, 127 (San José and Dota, Costa Rica).—Bovucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1878, 71 (San José and Cartago, Costa Rica); (?) The Hum. Bird, v, 1895, 7 
(Cali, n. w. Colombia).—Euprs-Destonecuamps, Ann. Mus. Caen, i, 1880, 
425.—CarRrIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 526 (Pacific slope and 
highlands of Costa Rica; habits). 
[Saucerottia] sophiz ScLaTER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 92. 
[Saucerottea] sophiae Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 12. 
S[aucerottea] sophiae Harrent, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 53 (monogr.). 
Saucerottea sophiz Banes, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 295 (Barranca de Punta Arenas). 
[Saucerottea] sophie SHarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 107. 
Saucerothia sopmz Franraius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 317 (Costa Rica). 
(??) Saucerotia sophie Boucarp, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 81 (Santa Marta and 
Barranquilla; Valencia, Venezuela; crit.). 
[Chlorestes] sophiae REIcHENBACH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 4, pl. 697, figs. 4554, 4555. 
Erythronota sophiz Goutp, Mon. Troch., v, pt. xxii, July, 1861, pl. 322. 
Hlemithylaca] sophiae CaBanis and Hzine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 38, footnote 
(‘‘Colombia”).—HeEtnz, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 192. 
[Hemithylaca] sophiae Huinz and ReicHEenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 179 
(Costa Rica; ‘‘Guatemala’”). 
Ariana sophie Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 36; Hist. Nat. Ois.- 
Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 328, pl. 28 (‘‘Colombia;’’ Veragua; Costa Rica); iv, 
livr. 1, 1877, pl. 54, livr. 3, 1878, 185. 
@Ten specimens. 
>The alleged type in the Elliot collection, American Museum of Natural History, 
bears, on the original label, the locality Nicaragua! 
