BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 645 
Immature male (not quite adult).—Similar to the adult male, but 
with forehead dull grayish brown or dull bronze-green, instead of 
metallic purple. 
Inaégua Island, Bahamas. 
Trochilus evelyne (not of Bourcier) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1866, 65, 
part (Inégua, Bahamas). 
Doricha lyrura Goutp, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 4th ser., iv, Aug., 1869, 111, 112 
(‘Long Id.,’’ i.e., Indgua, Bahamas; coll. J. Gould) —Exuror, Ibis, 1872, 354 
(‘‘Long Island,”’ error; synonymy; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 
126.—Cory, Birds. Bahama I., 1880, 110; Auk, iii, 1886, 355; viii, 1891, 297, 
351 (In4gua); Birds West Ind., 1889, 150; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 
107, 127, 144 (In4gua; Long I.?).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 
382 (‘‘Long Island”). 
[Doricha] lyrura SctaTER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 85.—Mu.sant, 
Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 226.—Cory, List Birds West Ind., 
1885, 18. 
Doriche lyrura Munsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 
41 (‘Long Island”). 
Dorycha lyrura Boucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 28 (Inagua). 
C[alliphlox] lyrura Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 199. 
[Calliphloz} lyrura Suarpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 139. 
[Philodice] lyrura Stuon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 38. 
Nesophlox lyrura Rip@way, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 55. 
NESOPHLOX BRYANT (Lawrence). 
COSTA RICAN WOOD-STAR. 
Adult male—Above dark, rather dull, metallic bronze-green; 
four middle rectrices duller bronze-green passing into dusky ter- 
minally, the remaining rectrices black glossed with purplish bronze, 
the shafts and broad edging to inner webs pale cinnamon or cinna- 
mon-buff; remiges dull purplish black or purplish dusky; a small 
whitish or pale cinnamon-buff postocular spot; gorget bright metallic 
magenta purple; chest dull white, passing posteriorly into deep 
brownish gray, glossed with metallic bronze or bronze-green except 
along median line, on lower parts of body; flanks cimnamon-rufous; 
anal tufts white; tufts on sides of rump pale cinnamon-buff or buffy 
white; under tail-coverts greenish bronzy margined with pale cinna- 
mon or cinnamon-buff, cinnamon or cinnamon-buff basally; bill 
dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky grayish brown; length 
(skins), 82-94 (89); wing, 40.5-43 (41.6); tail, 32-36.5 (34.6), middle 
rectrices 12—13.5 (12.8); exposed culmen, 14.5-16.5 (15.6).¢ 
Adult female—Above metallic bronze or bronze-green; middle 
pair of rectrices bronze-green passing into dusky terminally; other 
rectrices cinnamon-rufous basally, crossed by a broad subterminal 
band of black and broadly tipped with paler cinnamon-rufous (except 
next to middle pair); wings as in adult male; lores dull grayish 
@ Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 
