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b°. Cauda furcata ; guia micanti-rosaceo-rubra. 
LAMPROLAIMA. 
Lamprolema, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 61 (May 1856) ; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 314. 
The coloration of Lamprolema rhami, the only member of its genus, is quite 
peculiar; this and the tail being forked render its separation necessary, though in many 
other points of structure it comes near Celigena and Delattria. ‘Lhe bill, however, is 
decidedly shorter than in any member of those genera. 
The range of Lamprolema is strictly confined to the higher mountains of Southern 
Mexico and Guatemala. 
1. Lamprolema rhami., 
Ornismya rhami, Less. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 315’; Less. & Delattre, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 13°. 
Lamprolema rhami, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 61(May 1856)*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 129°; 
Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 468°; 1860, p. 196°; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 3147; Cab. & 
Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 30°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176°; de Oca, La Nat. in. p. 25 0; 
Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250"; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx. p. 275". 
Delattria rhami, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 297%; 1859, p. 367 ™. 
Supra nitenti-gramineo-viridis, antice letior postice obscurior ; alis castaneis, tectricibus majoribus et secund- 
ariis anguste primariis quoque late nigricante terminatis ; cauda saturate rubro-purpurea: subtus gula 
nigra, medialiter rosaceo-rubra micante; pectore micanti-violaceo, abdomine fusco-nigricante, hypochon- 
driis viridi lavatis, tectricibus subcaudalibus purpureo-nigris: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 5:0, ale 3-2, 
caudee 2:0, rostri a rictu 0-8. 
@ supra mari similis, alis quoque eodem modo castaneo notatis: subtus griseo-brunnea, gula interdum plumis 
rosaceis irregulariter ornata, pectore et hypochondriis viridi lavatis. (Descr. maris et femine ex Calderas, 
Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Delattre+*), Cofre de Perote (MU. Trujillo"), Jalapa? !? 4, Coatepec 71° 
(de Oca, Boucard, Trujillo), Cordova (Sallé, de Oca '°), Orizaba (de Oca", F. Ferrari- 
Perez), Alpine region of Orizaba (Sumichrast +"), Omilteme in Guerrero (Mrs. 
H. H. Smith"), Tonaguia and Totontepec (M. Trujillo"), La Parada (Boucard 1), 
Oaxaca (Boucard 13, Fenochio"); Guatamata® (Skinner +), El Rincon in San Marcos, 
Santa Maria, and San Martin near Quezaltenango (W. B. Richardson"), Calderas 
on Volcan de Fuego °®’, Volcan de Agua, Chilasco’? (0. S. & F. D. G.), Cahabon ? 
(fide Gould’). 
This beautiful and very distinct species was discovered by Delattre in Mexico, and it 
is now known to have a wide range in the southern portion of that country, being 
found in the upland forests on both sides of the main mountain-range. Its name is 
included in Mr. White’s list of the birds of the Valley of Mexico 9, but its presence 
there is not confirmed by subsequent writers. According to de Oca it is common on 
the slopes of the Cofre de Perote near Coatepec, and in the neighbourhood of Cordova 
and Orizaba, but he never found its nest. The same writer says that it appears in these 
districts in the months of June and July, and is supposed to migrate to Guatemala 
