BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 675 
Paphosia helenae Muusant and VEerReEaAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 75; Hist. Nat. 
Ois.-Mouch., ii, livr. 2, 1875, pl. 25, fig. 2; iii, livr. 3, 1876, 205, pl. 91, fig. 2 
(Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica). 
Paphiosa helene Boucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 70 (San Carlos and 
Turrialba, Costa Rica). 
[Paphiosa] helenae Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 222. 
Paphiosa helenae BoucarD, Liste Ois. récol. Guat., 1878, 46. 
[Trochilus] helene Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 146, no. 1891. 
[Lophornis] helena Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 257. 
Lophornis elene Dz Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, pl. (8), fig. 43; Troq. de Mex., 
1875, pl. (12), fig. 43. 
LOPHORNIS ADORABILIS Salvin. 
ADORABLE COQUETTE. 
Adult male.—Frontal, ioral, and orbital regions metallic copper- 
bronze,-the feathers pure white beneath surface; a cuneate crest of 
pure white, elongated, narrowly pointed feathers springing from 
posterior portion of forehead and center of crown; sides of crown, 
occiput, hindneck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts rather dark 
bronze-green; rump and shorter upper tail-coverts dark metallic 
coppery purple, this area separated from green of back by a narrow 
band of white, pale cinnamon, or buffy across upper rump; longer 
upper tail-coverts pale grayish cmnamon or dull brownish buffy 
broadly tipped with dusky purplish bronze; tail chestnut-rufous, 
the outer webs of rectrices edged with dusky bronze or bronze-green, 
the middle pair broadly tipped with the same; remiges and primary 
coverts dull black, the secondaries and inner primaries more purplish 
dusky; chin and throat bright metallic emerald green, this color 
extending over the auricular region, from the posterior portion of 
which there springs a much elongated tuft of very long narrowly 
lanceolate or acicular—almost filamentous—plumes of metallic green; 
chest white, tinged with cinnamon or buffy grayish laterally and 
posteriorly; rest of under parts cinnamon-rufous, passing into 
metallic bronze-green on sides of breast; bill pale brownish (coral 
red in life) the terminal third (more or less) dusky; feet dusky gray- 
ish brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 71-80 (74); wing, 36.5- 
40.5 (39); tail, 25.5-29 (27.3); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1).4 
Adult female.—Forehead, and crown, together with loral, subor- 
bital, and auricular regions, dark sooty, faintly glossed with bronze; 
occiput, nape, hindneck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts metallic 
bronze-green; a broad band of cinnamon-buff (more or less deep) 
or buffy white across middle of rump; upper tail-coverts dark sooty 
or sooty black, strongly glossed with bronze or coppery bronze; 
middle rectrices pale cinnamon-rufous basally, bronze-green in 
middle portion, black (broadly) subterminally or terminally, usually 
tipped with light cinnamon-rufous; lateral rectrices similar but 
broadly tipped with light cinnamon-rufous, and bronze-green band 
@ Ten specimens from Costa Rica, 
