BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 519 
Coloration.—Above metallic green (darker in adult males), the tail 
blue-black (middle rectrices sometimes dark greenish in females); 
adult males with chin and throat brilliant metallic green, the under 
parts of body, abruptly, bright violet-blue; tail wholly blue-black; 
adult females with under parts pale gray or grayish white (the throat 
sometimes spotted with green), the lateral rectrices tipped with gray. 
Range.—Panamé to western Ecuadér. (Three species or sub- 
species.) 
KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF DAMOPHILA. 
a. Chin, throat, and chest brilliant metallic green, under parts of body metallic 
violet-blue; tail uniform blue-black. (Adult males.) 
b. Pileum brilliant metallic green. (Damophila juliz.) 
c. Bill averaging shorter (14.5); pileum usually less glittering green and blue 
of under parts usually(?) less violaceous. (Colombia to Chiriquf.) 
Damophila juliz juliz, adult male (p. 519). 
cc. Bill averaging longer (15.1); pileum usually more glittering green and blue 
of under parts usually(?) more violaceous. (Western Ecuadér.) 
Damophila julie feliciana, adult male (extralimital).¢ 
bb. Pileum dull metallic green, like back. (Panam4 and adjacent part of Costa 
RICH?) sansiie's vioee Seales eras Damophila panamensis, adult male (p. 521). 
aa. Chin, throat, and chest pale gray or grayish white, or only spotted with green; 
under parts of body pale gray, passing into white posteriorly; lateral rectrices 
tipped with gray. (Adult females.) 
b. Throat usually heavily spotted with green. 
Damophila julic feliciana, adult female (extralimital).® 
6b. Throat usually immaculate. ..... Damophila panamensis, adult female p. 521).) 
DAMOPHILA JULIA JULI (Bourcier). 
JULIE’S HUMMING BIRD. 
Adult: male.—Pileum brilliant metallic green (yellowish emerald 
green to golden green); rest of upper parts duller metallic bronze- 
green, usually more bronzy on rump; tail glossy blue-black; remiges 
very dark brownish slate or dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; 
malar, suborbital, and auricular regions, chin, throat, and sides of 
neck brilliant metallic green (like pileum); rest of under parts rich 
metallic violet-blue (deep smalt blue to hyacinth blue), the flanks 
intermixed with metallic green; under tail-coverts glossy blue-black; 
femoral tufts white; maxilla dull black, mandible pale brownish or 
@ Ornismya feliciana Lesson, Rev. Zool., vii, Dec., 1844, 433 (Guayaquil, w. Ecua- 
dér; coll. Abeillé)—Juliamya feliciana Gould, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 168.— 
Damophila feliciana Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 316.—[Hylocharis] feliciana Gray, 
Hand-list, i, 1869, 151, no. 1948.—D[amophila] julie feliciana Hartert, Das Tierreich, 
Troch., 1900, 71 (monogr.).—Damophila juliz (not Ornismya juliae Bourcier) Salvin, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 236, part—Juliamyia typica (not of Bonaparte) 
Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 283 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuadér), 296 (Esmeraldas, 
w. Ecuadér). 
b The adult female of D. juliz juliz not seen by me. 
