BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 605 
Adult male——Above deep metallic bronze-green, darker anteriorly, 
brighter and more bronzy posteriorly; middle rectrices broadly 
cinnamon-rufous laterally, glossy purplish black medially, this black 
median stripe sometimes passing into metallic green on edge of 
terminal portion on one web; remaining rectrices purplish black, the 
inner web broadly edged with cinnamon-rufous, this edging inter- 
rupted subterminally; loral, rictal, and postocular regions and point 
of chin cinnamon-rufous; chin and throat (gorget) bright metallic 
purplish red (between crimson or burnt carmine and pomegranate 
purple), the feathers with a concealed broad buffy whitish bar across 
middle portion and pale grayish base; chest white, tinged (especially 
on posterior portion) with pale vinaceous-cinnamon or pinkish buff; 
sides and flanks rather dull metallic bronze-green, slightly suffused 
with cinnamon-rufous, the two lateral areas nearly confluent on 
upper breast; median line of breast (narrowly) and abdomen pale 
gray or grayish white; under tail-coverts buffy white or pale buff, 
deeper buff, or cimnamon-buff, mesially; femoral and lumbar tufts 
buffy white; bill dull blackish, the basal half, more or less, of man- 
dible brownish (in dried skins); iris dark brown; feet dusky; length 
(skins), 69-72 (70.5); wing, 40-40.5 (40.2); tail, 28-29 (28.5); ex- 
posed culmen, 11.5-12 (11.7).¢ 
Adult female——Above metallic greenish bronze, much duller on 
pileum, the lower rump slightly suffused with cinnamon-rufous; 
middle rectrices metallic bronze-green, the outer web broadly tipped 
with blackish, the basal half or more of both webs broadly edged 
with cinnamon-rufous; outermost rectrix light cinnamon-rufous, 
crossed in middle portion by a broad band of purplish black; inter- 
mediate rectrices intermediate in coloration, according to position; 
remiges dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; loral, superciliary, and 
postocular regions deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut; auricular 
‘region dusky, suffused with cimnamon-rufous; suborbital and malar 
regions and sides of chin and throat cinnamon-buff, flecked with 
dusky; fading into paler buff, more sparsely flecked, on median 
portion of chin and throat; chest immaculate buffy white; under 
parts of body light cinnamon-rufous laterally, pale buff or buffy 
white along median line; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-buff; 
femoral and lumbar tufts buffy white; bill, etc., as in adult male; 
length (skin), 67; wing, 39.5; tail, 24; exposed culmen, 13. 
’ Highlands of western Panamé (Castillo and Calovévora, Veraégua; 
Volcan de Chiriqui). 
Selasphorus ardens Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 209 (Castillo, Verdgua, 
Panamé; coll. Salvin and Godman); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 398.— 
@ Two specimens. 
b One specimen. I am very doubtful, however, whether this is not in reality a, 
temale of S. scintilla, 
