"36 TKOCHILI. 



Vide7tsh. Medd. Nat, For. Kjoh. 1870, p. Ill ; Pek. Orn. Bras. 

 p. 33 ; Mills. Hist. Nat. O is. -M ouches, iii. p. 149 ; id. Ann. Soc. 

 Liinn, Lyon, xxii. p. 221 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch, p. 171. 



Adult male. Upper surface shiniDg grass-green ; forehead and 

 throat glittering green edged with black ; lateral cervical patches 

 and abdomen rich dark blue ; pectoral band creamy white, partlj' 

 divided by the pointed green throat ; under tail-coverts whitish 

 with greenish discs ; tail glittering green. Total length about 

 3"7 inches, wing 2'1, tail 1*3. 



Female. Like the male, but with the forehead shining green like 

 the back, and with the lateral rectrices tipped with white. 



Young bird. Beneath fuscous, the white pectoral band showing 

 first, then the glittering feathers of the under surface, and, lastly, 

 in the male the glittering forehead. 



Hab. South-eastern Brazil. 



a-f. (S fid. ; ff,h. cJ Brazil. Salviu-Godman, Gould, 



juv. ; i. 2 fid. sk. & Sclater Colls. 



/. c? ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



2. Augastes lumachellus. 

 Ornismya lumacliellus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 315. 

 Hylocharis lumacheUus, Gray, Gen. B, i. p. 114; id. Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 151. 



Trochilus lumachellus, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 313. 



Augastes lumachellus, Gould, Mon, Troch. iv. pi. 222 (June 1849) ; 



id. Litr. Troch. p. 123 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 84 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 253 ; Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hcin. iii. p. 46 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 305 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 147, pi. 83 ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 221 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 170. 

 Rhamphomicroii fi. Lamprurus lumachellus, Reich. Anfz. d. Col. 



p. 12; id. Troch. Enum. p. 10, pi. 823. fif. 4829-31. 

 Heliotryplia lumachella, Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 69. 



Adidt male. Shining grass-green : crown and sides of the throat 

 black ; forehead and throat glittering golden green, the lower edge 

 shaded with blue, followed by a central point of glittering fiery red ; 

 pectoral band white ; abdomen shining, and under tail-coverts 

 golden green ; tail rich golden bronze. Total length about 4'3 

 inches, wing S'i, tail 1"4, bill 0*85. 



Female. Like the male on the under surface, but the bright 

 colours duller ; the forehead and crown grass-green like the back. 



Hab. South-eastern Brazil. 



a-(/. (S ad. ; h. $ Brazil. Sahin-Godmau, Gould, 



ad. sk. & Sclater Oolls. 



j'-A;. cJ ad. ; Z. cJjuv. ; [Brazil.] Gould Coll. 



m. 5 ad. sk. 



n. cJ ad.; a. cS juv. st. Purchased. 



4. RHAMPHODON. 



Type. 



Rhamphodon, Less. Hist. Nat. Col. p. IS (1831) It. nsevius. 



Grypus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 24 (nee Germ.) R. usevius. 



Haneje. South-eastern Brazil. 



