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Show 152 MR. o. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. [Jan. 24 151. CERYLE AMAZONA, Lath. Santiago de Veragua. 152. CERYLE CABANISI, Tsch. Ceryle americana, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 139. David (Bridges). 153. EUTOXERES AQUILA, Bourc.; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pl. 3 ; Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. vi. p. 139. District of Belen, Veragua (Merritt). In one of Arce's previous collections from Costa Rica (Tucurriqui) three specimens of this strange form were sent, showing that its Central American range probably extends over the whole of the eastern side of Costa Rica and Veragua. Apparently absent from the Isthmus of Panama, it again, like several other Humming-birds, reappears in New Granada and Ecuador. 154. PHAETHORNIS EMILIEE, Bourc.; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 44. Santa Fe. Arce has sent quite a number of specimens, both from Costa Rica and Veragua, of a Phaethornis which Mr. Gould and I have compared closely with New Granadan specimens of P. emiliee without detecting any differences. It is somewhat singular that none of these collections contain specimens of P. longirostris, a bird which is very common both to the north and south of Costa Rica and Veragua. Should this species be absent altogether from these countries, we have a curious instance of geographical distribution, each of the two species, P. emiliee and P. longirostris, having an outlying district detached from what may be considered the metropolis of its range. Mr. Lawrence having recently forwarded to Mr. Gould for inspection the types of the species of Phcethornis he lately described (Ann. N. Y. Lye. June, 1866) as P. cassinii, I am enabled to state that they do not differ, according to Mr. Gould, from P. longirostris (P. cephalus, Bourc. et Muls.). 155. PHAETHORNIS ADOLPHI, Bourc.; Gould, Mon. Troch. i. pl. 35. Santiago de Veragua. 156. CHALYBURA ISAURA, Gould, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 199, & Intr. Troch. p. 72. Santa Fe; Santiago de Veragua. Arce has sent both sexes of this species; the female, which has not been hitherto noticed, I now describe:- 2 • Supra viridescens pileo obscuriore : uropygio et cauda ceneo nitentibus : alis fuscis: subtus sordide cinerea, crisso rectricibus duabus utrinque externis albido terminatis: rostro superiore fusco, inferiore fiavido, apice fusco : pedibus flavis. The only other species nearly allied to this is C. melanorrhoa, |