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Show 1870.] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 207 In the view I here adopt, all the cinnamon-breasted birds from Calobre &c. belong to this species. Whether all those collected in Costa Rica belong to the same remains to be seen. W e have only two males as yet from the volcano of Chiriqui. Lampornis veraguensis. Calobre ; Cordillera del Chucu. This Humming-bird has a very restricted range, answering nearly to that of Chiromachceris aurantiaca described above. At Panama the common L. mango (Linn.) is found, and in Costa Rica the Guatemalan L. prevosti (Less.), L. veraguensis occupying a small area between the two. Heliodoxa j acuta. Calovevora; Boqueti de Chitra. Thalurania venusta. Calovevora ; Chitra ; Boqueti de Chitra. Microchera albo-coronata. Cordillera del Chucu. 133. LOPHORNIS DELATTRII (Less.); Gould, Mon. Troch. t. 121, Intr. p. 84. Castillo ; Laguna del Castillo. Apparently common at certain seasons in this locality. 134. LOPHORNIS ADORABILIS, sp. n. Supra nitenti-virescens : dorso postico albo, uropygio purpureo tincto : alis brunneo-nigris : cauda rufa extus viridescente limbata et rectricibus mediis eodem colore terminatis: fronte et pileo medio albis, plumis illius erectis et cupreo terminatis, plumis hujus elongatis in fila productis et cristam albam for-mantibus : subtus gulce totius viridescentis plumis lateralibus longissimis, supra dorsum retroductis; pectore albo, ventre et crisso rufis, illo antice viridescente mixto: rostri basi carnea, apice fusco, pedibus fuscis: long, tota 2*7, alee 1*55, caudee rectr. med. 1*0, rectr. lat. 0*9, rostri a rictu 0*55. Fern, capite et regione auriculari nigris: gula tota alba viridi-ceneo parum punctata: cauda fascia lata subapicali nigra trans-vittata, rectricibus mediis medialiter viridescente tinctis : long. caudee rectr. med. 0*8, lat. 0*65. Hab. Bugaba; V. de Chiriqui (Arce). This beautiful species is singularly distinct from any of its congeners, but perhaps belongs rather to the L. magnifica group than to that containing L. helence. In the whole genus, however, no other member has the erectile feathers on the forehead, the thread-like white plumes of the crest, or the long pointed feathers of the throat, which all combine to render this bird most distinct when compared with its allies. The first specimen obtained by Arce was a female, which, though |