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510. Phaethornis LONGIROSTRIS, Less, and Delatt., Echo 



du Monde, Savant, 1843, p. 1070. 



Trochilus cephalus, Bourc. and Muls., Rev. Zool., 1848, 

 p. 26g. 



Ptyonornis cephala, Reich., Aufz. derCol., 1853, p. 14. 



Phaethornis cassini, Lawr., Ann., N.Y. Lye, Nat. Hist., 

 vol. viii., p. 347. 



Mexican Hermit , Gould, Mon. Troch., v. i., p. 19. 



Le Phaethornis cêphale, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1873, 

 t. i., p. 65. 



Habitat. — Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. 



Maie. — Head brownish-black. Upperside golden-green, 

 passing to golden-rufous on rump and uppertail-coverts, each 

 feather margined with brownish-black, the rufous of the under- 

 tail-coverts very apparent. Tail bronze at base, then black 

 tipped with pale buff. Median rectrices bronze at base, then 

 brownish-black, with tips pure white for nearly their entire 

 length beyond the laterals. Wings purplish-brown. Gular 

 stripe buff, passing to grayish-white on breast. Stripe over 

 the eye and one from the maxilla going under the eye and 

 ear-coverts pale buff. Ear-coverts black. Rest of underside 

 pale buiïy-brown, paler on breast and pale buff on vent and 

 flanks. Near the gular stripe of chin the pale buff feathers 

 are washed with black. Undertail-coverts pale buff. Maxilla 

 black. Mandible flesh colour, with black tip. 



Total length, 6in. Wing, 2\. Tail, 2\. Culmen, i^. 



Female. — Underside lighter in colour than the male, and 

 slightly smaller. 



This species was probably discovered in Guatemala, by 

 Delattre. I am surprised that Elliot, in his Synopsis of the 

 Humming Birds, says that it is hardly separable from P. 

 superciliosus. They are quite distinct and impossible to 

 confuse. 



511. Phaethornis panamensis, Boucard, Hum. Bird, 1892, 



p. 83. 

 Panama^ s Hermit. 



Le Phaethornis de Panama. 



Habitat. — Panama and Veragua. 



