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Show 1870.] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 209 137. SELASPHORUS ARDENS, sp. n. Supra viridescens: loris et regione parotica rufis, hac nigro mixta : subtus gula leete nitente rubra, sicut in Selasphoro platycerco .- pectore toto, ventre medio et crisso albis: cauda sicut in specie preecedente, rectricibus mediispurpurascenti-nigris rufo limbatis solum exceptis: rostro toto nigro: long, tota 2*8, alee 1*55, caudce 1*15, rostri a rictu 0*65. Mas hornot. gula fusco maculata: cauda nigra, basi rufa et rectricibus quatuor externis rufo terminatis, mediis viridescen-tibus, rufo marginatis. Hab. Calovevora et Castillo (Arce). This species has the throat coloured just as in S. platycercus, which is in other respects a very different species. Its nearest allies, however, are S. flammula and S. torridus, described above; but it differs from both in the coloration of the throat, and also in having the central tail-feathers black, edged with rufous instead of green; this latter distinction is more conspicuous when the tail is compared with that of <S. flammula. The wholly black bill and the absence of the elongated gular feathers distinguish it from S. torridus. The male sent by Arce is not in quite perfect plumage, but is so far satisfactory as to show a few faded feathers on the throat. These are bronzy, and quite different in colour from the gorget-feathers of either S. flammula or S. torridus. Selasphorus scintilla. V. de Chiriqui. The original specimens of this species were obtained by Warsze-wiez in this locality, where Arce seems to have found the bird occurring abundantly. 138. DORICHA BRYANT^, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 483, et ix. p. 123. Castillo; Laguna del Castillo; Cordillera del Chucu; V. de Chiriqui. This fine species seems to be more abundant about Castillo than in the district of Chiriqui. Judging from the specimens sent by Arce', the males are much more numerous than the females. Clais merritti (Lawr.), Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 110. C. guimeli, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 155. Castillo ; Calovevora ; Chitra ; Laguna del Castillo ; Bugaba ; V. de Chiriqui. Mr. Gould tells me that he now considers the Central-American form of this bird to be distinguishable from southern examples. The distinction is indeed slight; but, so far as I can see, southern examples always have the blue of the head and throat considerably deeper in tint. Heliothrix barroti. Boqueti de Chitra; Bugaba; V. de Chiriqui. I fail to detect amongst the species forwarded by Arce from the above localities any specimens answering to the species described by |
