BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 569 
upper throat and chin; chest, breast, sides, and flanks rather dull 
metallic bronze-green (b, c), changing to nearly black (a), passing 
into dull grayish brown on abdomen; anal tufts grayish white; under 
tail-coverts dull bronze-green, or bronzy grayish brown, margined 
with brownish buff; bill blackish or dull black, with mandibular tomia 
dull flesh color (in life); iris dark brown; feet dusky brown (in life) ; 
length (skins), 124-135 (130); wing, 76-81 (77.8); tail, 43.5-48.5 
(46.8), middle rectrices, 37.5—41.5 (42.8); culmen, 29-33 (31).% 
Adult female —Pileum, together with loral, suborbital and auricular 
regions, dark sooty or dusky, the first faintly glossed with greenish, 
at least posteriorly; rest of upper parts as in adult male, but tail 
duller bronze, the two or three outer rectrices tipped with brownish 
gray and all becoming dull blackish terminally or subterminally; a 
conspicuous postocular spot of white; under parts buffy or brownish 
gray, the feathers of chin and throat conspicuously margined with 
pale dull grayish buffy (especially on edges) producing a streaked 
and more or less squamate appearance, the other lower parts with 
much less distinct paler margins to feathers; sides and flanks mostly 
bronzy green; anal tufts white, as in adult male; bill, iris, and feet 
as in adult male; length (skins), 127-141 (185); wing, 68-74.5 
(73.5); tail, 36-43.5 (42.3), middle rectrices, 33-40 (37.7); culmen, 
35-37.5 (36.3) .¢ 
Highlands of Costa Rica (Rancho Redondo; Volcan de Irazi; 
Voleén de Turrialba; Coliblanco; Escazi; Cerro de la Candelaria; 
La Estrella de Cartago; San Juan; Ojuras de Térraba) and western 
Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui). 
Heliomaster spectabilis LawrENcE, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 
472 (Costa Rica; coll. G. N. Lawrence;=female).—Satvin, Ibis, 1868, 
251 (crit.). 
[Trochilus] spectabilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 137, no. 1750. 
Eugenes spectabilis Savin, Ibis, 1869, 316 (Volcén de Irazti, Costa Rica); Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 304.—Franrzrus, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 
(Costa Rica).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., x, 1871, 140 (‘‘near San José,” 
Costa Rica; crit.)—Mursant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., ii, 
livr. 3, 1876, 215; iv, livr. 3, 1878, 206 (crit.)—Boucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1878, 68 (Volcan de Irazi, 6,000-8,000 ft.; descr. adult male; crit.; 
habits); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 297 (Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica).— 
Exuior, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 61.—ZeLepON, Cat. Aves de 
Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121 (Faldas de 
Trazi).—SHarpe, Suppl. Gould’s Mon. Troch., 1885, pl. 18.—Sanvin and 
Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 330.—Banes, Proc. New Engl. 
Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 30 (Volc&én de Chiriquf, Panamé, 8,000 ft.).—Ripeway, 
Condor, vii, 1905, 157, in text (Coliblanco, Costa Rica, 6,500 ft.).—CarrikER, 
Ann, Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 539 (Costa Rica, above 6,000 ft.).—Frrry, 
Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 264 (Coliblanco, Costa 
Rica). 
@ Ten specimens, all from Costa Rica, 
