536 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 
THALURANIA TOWNSENDI Ridgway. 
HONDURAS WOOD-NYMPH. 
Adult male similar in color of upper parts to T. colombica, but 
under parts with breast and abdomen green instead of violet-blue or 
bluish violet; similar in coloration of under parts to T. hypochlora (of 
Ecuador), but forehead bluish violet or violet-blue instead of emerald 
green. 
Adult male.—Forehead bright metallic violet-blue or bluish violet 
(royal purple); rest of pileum dull dusky metallic green, the hindneck 
more bronzy green, varying to bronze; upper back crossed by a band 
of opaque velvety black, immediately succeeded by one of bright 
violet-blue, this involving also the anterior scapular region; lesser 
wing-coverts metallic greenish blue or bluish green, the greater 
coverts black glossed with bluish or bluish green; lower back, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts metallic green (varying from slightly bluish 
green to bronze-green); tail dark violaceous steel blue or black glossed 
with violet-blue; remiges dusky slate faintly glossed with violaceous; 
malar region, chin, throat, and chest bright metallic yellowish 
emerald green; breast and abdomen similar, but less yellowish green, 
changing to bluish green in certain lights, the sides of breast and 
under wing-coverts metallic greenish blue; under tail-coverts glossy 
blue-black, broadly edged basally with grayish white; bill dull black; iris 
dark brown; feet grayish brown or dusky; length (skins), 98-107 (103); 
wing, 53.5-55.5 (54.3); tail, 36.5-42 (39); culmen, 19.5-20 (19.7).¢ 
Adult female.—Above metallic green, more bronzy anteriorly (espe- 
cially on hindneck), duller on pileum, where only tips of the feathers 
are metallic; middle pair of rectrices metallic bluish green, usually 
darker (sometimes blackish) terminally; other rectrices glossy blue- 
black terminally or subterminally, metallic green basally, the two 
outer pairs broadly tipped with pale gray or dull grayish white; 
remiges dusky slate, faintly glossed with violaceous; under parts; 
including malar region, pale brownish gray, passing on sides of neck 
into golden green or bronze, into metallic green or bronze-green on 
sides and flanks; anal region, under tail-coverts, and femoral tufts dull 
grayish white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 91-94 (92); 
wing, 48-51.5 (49.7); tail, 27-29.5 (28.7); culmen, 20-20.5 (20.1). 
Honduras (Rio Segévia; Yaruca) and eastern Guatemala (Gualan). 
Thalurania townsendi Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., x, Aug. 6, 1888, 590 
(Segévia R., Honduras; coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.) —Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xvi, 1892, 78.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 266.— 
Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 102.—Banes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
xxxix, 1903, 144 (Yaruca, Honduras). 
T{halurania] townsendi Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 85 (monogr.). « 
[Thalurania] townsendi SHarpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 115. 
a Three specimens. b Four specimens. 
