BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 5385 
extensively metallic green, the gray confined to the median line of 
breast and abdomen, and even there sometimes obsolete. 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 99-109 (102); wing, 52-55.5 (54.1); 
tail, 34-42.5 (39.6); culmen, 18-20.5 (19.7).¢ 
Adult female——Length (skins), 82-94 (90); wing, 47.5-52 (49.6); 
tail, 28-31 (29.7); culmen, 20-22.5 (20.8). 
Panamé (Volcan de Chiriqui; Chitra; Boquete de Chitra; Santiago 
and Santa Fé, Veraégua; Divala; Calovévora; Castillo; Laguna; 
Paraiso ?;¢ Lion Hill? *), Costa Rica (Angostura; Tucurriqui; Jiménez; 
Naranjo de Cartago; San Carlos; Bonilla; Guayabo), and Nicaragua 
(La Libertid, Chontales). 
* Trochilus (Thalurania) venusta Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850, 163 (Voledn 
de Chiriquf, Panamé; coll. J. Gould). 
Thalurania venusta Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1852, 9; Monogr. Troch., ii, 
1858, pl. 105; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 78.—Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. 
de Zool., 1854, 254.—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 292 (Lion Hill, 
Panam4); ix, 1868, 122 (Angostura and Tucurrfqui, Costa Rica).—ScLaTER 
and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 365 (Panam4; crit.).—Mu.Lsant 
and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 51; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. i, 
1876, 65, in text.—Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 153 (Santa Fé, San- 
tiago, and Volce4n de Chiriqui, Panam4; crit.); 1870, 207 (Calovévora, Chitra, 
and Boquete de Chitra, Panam4); Ibis, 1872, 313, 319 (Chontales, Nica- 
ragua).—Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica). 
[Coeligena. a. Thalurania] venusta ReicHenBacH, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 7. 
Coeligena venusta ReicHENBACH, Troch. Enum., 1855, 3. 
[Polytmus] venustus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 130, no. 1657. 
[Thalurania columbica] var. venusta Muusant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 
1876, 219. 
Thalurania colombica var. venusta BoucarD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 69 (San 
Carlos and Naranjo, Costa Rica). 
Th{alurania] columbica venusta Hartert, Novit. Zool., iv, April, 1897, 149, in 
text (crit.). 
Thalurania columbica venusta Harrert, Journ. ftir Orn., 1900, 362 (crit.)—Banes, 
Auk, xviii, 1901, 360 (Divala, Panamé; crit.); xxiv, 1907, 296 (Boruca, Bar- 
ranca, and Pozo del Rio Grande, s. w. Costa Rica).—Frrry, Pub. 146, Field 
Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, 1910, 263 (Guayabo, Costa Rica). 
Thalurania colombica venusta CARRIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 533 (Costa 
Rica; crit.; habits). 
Thalurania columbica (not Ornismya colombica Bourcier) Satvin and Ext1o7, Ibis, 
1873, 355, part (Costa Rica; Verdégua).—ZELEDON, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 
1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121, part (Naranjo de Cartago and 
Jiménez, Costa Rica).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 79, 652, part 
(Chontales, Nicaragua; Tucurriqui, Costa Rica; Vole4én de Chiriqui, Boquete 
de Chitra, Castillo, Laguna, Calovévora, Santiago, Paraiso, and Lion Hill, 
Panama). 
Thalurania colombica Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 266, 
part (Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and Panaman localities and references). 
@ Twelve specimens. 
6 Thirteen specimens. 
¢ Without specimens in hand it is impossible to say which of the two forms occur- 
ring in Panama occur in certain localities. 
