BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 467 
ANTHRACOTHORAX VERAGUENSIS Reichenbach. 
VERAGUAN MANGO. 
Similar to A. prevostii, but adult male with chin and throat wholly 
bright metallic green. 
Adult male—Above metallic bronze, greenish bronze, or bronze- 
green, the middle pair of rectrices usually more coppery bronze; 
other rectrices rich purplish maroon, glossed with violet-purple, 
margined terminally with purplish or bluish black, this extending 
along edge of outer web for terminal half (more or less); remiges 
brownish slate or dusky; loral and malar regions, chin, and throat 
brilliant metallic yellowish emerald green varying to more golden 
green; chest and median portion of breast and: abdomen duller and 
more bluish green, the lateral under parts metallic bronze or bronze- 
green; under tail-coverts blackish or dusky, more or less glossed with 
greenish; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; iris dark 
brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 99-111 (105); wing, 64.5-72 (67.1); 
tail, 34-37.5 (35.3); exposed culmen, 23.5-26.5 (24.7).¢ 
Adult female.—Above similar in color to the adult male; chin and 
a broad stripe extending therefrom along sides of throat and chest 
to anal region, white, these two white stripes inclosing one of metallic 
bluish green, the feathers of which are dusky beneath the surface; 
sides of neck and thence.to flanks metallic bronze-green; under tail- 
coverts light bronze-green narrowly tipped or terminally margined 
with white, the longer ones with an indistinct subterminal bar of 
dusky; lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white and crossed by a 
broad band of glossy blue-black, the remaining portion chestnut 
glossed with metallic purple; length (skin), 111; wing, 65; tail, 36.5; 
culmen (tip of maxilla broken off).° 
Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui; David; Calobre; Cordillera del Chucu; 
Agua Dulce; Nata, Coclé; Panama); Costa Rica? 
[Anthracothorax, 7. Sericotes] veraguensis REIcHENBACH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 
11 (Ver4gua; nomen nudum). 
[Anthracothoraz] veraguensis ReicHENBACH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 9, pl. 794, fig. 
4848 (Verdgua). 
[Lampornis] veraguensis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250.—ScLaTER 
and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81——Mu.sant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 
xxii, 1876, 202.—Suarpz, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 118. 
« Six specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed 
culmen. 
MALES 
Six adult males from Panamé.......-.....-.2.2220 22 eee eee ee eee eee e eee eens 66.2 35 24.9 
One adult male from Costa Rica...........--..22-..22 eee cece eee eee eee ee eeeees 72 37.5 23.5 
6 One specimen. 
