602 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
brown or dusky; length (skins), 69-74 (72); wing, 38.5-41.5 (40.2); 
tail, 26-28.5 (27.5); exposed culmen, 11—12.5 (11.7).¢ 
Adult female ——Above similar in color to the adult male, but three 
outer rectrices (oneach side) broadly tipped with pale cinnamon- 
rufous or cinnamon-buff, and with the basal portion extensively 
cinnamon-rufous; chin and throat dull white (often more or less 
tinged with cinnamomeous) streaked or spotted with grayish brown 
or dusky; rest of under parts as in adult male, but sides without 
green spotting; length (skins), 71-78 (74); wing, 41-43.5 (42); tail, 
25-27 (26.2); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.9).¢ 
Highlands of Costa Rica (Volcén de Irazi; Volcan de Turrialba; 
Sabana de Cartago; La Estrella de Cartago; Cerro de la Candelaria; 
Santa Maria de Dota; Rancho Redondo). 
Selasphorus flammula Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 586 (Vole4n de Car- 
tago, i. e., Volcén de Irazi, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 398.—Lawrencg, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 123 
(Vole4n de Irazi).—Frantzius, Journ. fir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica).— 
Moutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iii, livr. 3, 1876, pl. 44; 
iv, livr. 2, 1877, 99 (Cartago); livr. 3, 1878, 220, 221, pl. 107.—Bovcarp, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 70 (Volcdn de Irazu, 10,000 ft.; habits); Gen. 
Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 10 (Voledn de Irazi).—Etuiot, Classif. and Synop. 
Troch., 1879, 110.—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 497 (Volc4n de 
Irazi).—ZELEeDOén, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa 
Rica, i, 1887, 121.—SHarrsz, Suppl. Gould’s Mon. Troch., 1883, pl. 31.— 
SaLvin and GopMaAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 357.—Harrtert, Novit. 
Zool., ii, 1895, 68 (Faldas de Irazi, La Estrella de Cartago, and Santa Maria 
de Dota, Costa Rica; descr. adult male and female). 
[Selasphorus] fammula ScuateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84.—MuL- 
sant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. 8., xxii, 1876, 227.—SHarpe, Hand-list, ii, 
1900, 141. 
S[elasphorus] flammula Ripeway, Rep. U. 8. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 341 
(diagnosis, etc.).—Hanrtert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 205. 
Selasphorus fammula fammula CarRIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 547 (high 
rots. of central Costa Rica). 
[Selasphorus platycercus] var. flammula Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. 
N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 459. 
Selasphorus (platycercus, var.?) flammula Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. 
N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 459, footnote. 
[Trochilus] flammula Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 144, no. 1866. 
Selasphorus torridus (not of Salvin) Ripaway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 415 
(Costa Rica); vii, 1884, 14 (Volc4n de Irazti).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. 
Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 354, part (citation of S. fammula Nutting and 
loc. Volc4n de Cartago). 
SELASPHORUS TORRIDUS Salvin. 
HELIOTROPE-THROATED HUMMING BIRD. 
Very similar to S. fammula, but adult male with throat (‘‘gorget’’) 
very different in color (dull metallic grayish green faintly glossed 
with purple or dull grayish purple faintly glossed with dull green); 
«Ten specimens. 
