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Show 208 MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. [Mar. 24, evidently belonging to a distinct species, I hesitated to describe. This specimen was shot at Bugaba. The last collection includes the male, which Arce tells m e his brother David obtained high up on the volcano of Chiriqui. That so fine a bird should have remained so long undiscovered seems singular; but the fact, I think, shows that the range of the species is extremely limited. No less than two other species of Lophornis are found in this portion of Central America, viz. :-L. helence, the Mexican and Guatemalan bird, which is also to be met with in Costa Rica; and the southern L. delattrii, which seems to be abundant about Calobre and on the Isthmus of Panama. Gouldia conversi. Calovevora. 135. TROCHILUS COLUBRIS, L.; Gould, Mon. Troch. t. 131, Intr. p. 86. V. de Chiriqui. Though this species is found sparingly in Costa Rica, this is quite the most southern locality yet recorded for it, being doubtless the furthest point reached by a few individuals in their winter migration. Arce has sent us a male in abraded plumage, and three females. 136. SELASPHORUS TORRIDUS, sp. n. Supra virescens: alis purpurascenti-nigris: loris rufis, regione parotica rufa, nigro commixta: subtus gula tota nitente lilacino-rubra, plumis lateraliter elongatis : pectore, ventre medio et crisso albis, hypochondriis viridescente lavatis : cauda nigra, rectricibus lateralibus intus fere ad apicem rufo marginatis, rectrice extima utrinque macula parva in pogonio interno prope aqricem rufa notata, rectricibus mediis viridescente lavatis: rostri maxilla nigra, mandibulee basi carnea, pedibus fuscis : long, tota 2*7, alee 1*6, caudce 1*1, rostri a rictu 0*65. Fern, pileo obscuriore, plumis singulis totius gulce fusco medialiter punctatis ; hypochondriis rufescentibus : cauda nigra, basi rufa, rectricibus tribus lateralibus albo terminatis, tertia et quarta extus rufo marginatis, mediis omnino viridescentibus. Hab. V. de Chiriqui (Arce). The coloration of the throat of this species is peculiar, having a somewhat faded appearance. The tint is not brilliant red as in S. scintilla, nor does it resemble the gorget of £. platycercus, but is altogether of a more lilac hue. However, six males, sent by Arce, are all so exactly alike that I cannot but suppose that the normal colour of the throat is shown. The lateral plumes of the throat, too, are elongated, reminding one of Atthis heloisee, and thus render the species distinct from all Selasphori except S. scintilla, from which it differs widely in other respects. The most nearly allied species appears to be S. flammula, Salv. (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 586), which, however, has a differently coloured throat, as well as distinctive characters in the tail. |