92 



AnthiMCotliorax (3. Floresia porpli yriira, Heich. Atifz. d. Col. p. 11 ; 

 id. Troch. Enttm. p. 8, pi. 795. ff! 4849-50. 



Lamporni.s por])liyriii'U8, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 250 ; Gould, 31oii. 

 Troch. ii. ]). 81 (May 1858) ; id. Infr. Troch. p. ()7 ; Cab. Sf Heine, 

 Mils. Hein. iii. p. 19; 8cl. P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 79; id. Cut. Am. B. 

 p. 291 ; 3Iuls. ^ Vcrr. Class. Troch. p. 24 ; Miils. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 

 Monches, i. p. 1(33, iv. p. 155 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 202 ; 

 Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 196. 



Eudoxa porphyi'iu-a, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 179. 



Polytmus porphyruiiis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 126. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark brown glossed with dark purple ; 

 a patch of glittering purple on either side of the neck from the 

 gape and passing under the eye ; whole under surface deep black ; 

 under tail-covcrts greenish black ; central rectrices brownish black ; 

 lateral rich purple with steel-blue margins ; bill black. Total length 

 about 4"7 inches, wing 2-0, tail 1'7, bill 1"1. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Young birds (certainly males, but probably both sexes) have a 

 dark glittering bluish -green throat, which is as.sociated with white 

 tips to somewhat pointed lateral tail-feathers (a sign of immaturity). 

 A specimen in changing plumage is supplanting these green glitter- 

 ing feathers with pure black ones. 



liirds with bright throats, associated as they are with black- 

 throated ones, have long been a source of difficulty as regards their 

 status. Gould considered them to be the normal females of this 

 sjiecies, and so figured them in his Monograph. Dissected specimens 

 before me do not support this view ; and the bird in changing 

 plumage, I think, clearly proves them to be immature. I know, 

 however, of no similar instance in the Trochilido' in which imma- 

 ture birds are more highly ornamented than the adults. 



IJah. Jamaica. 



a, b, (S ad. sk. 



0. cJ ad. sk. 



d. (S ad. ; e. 



juv. ? sk. 

 f, y. Ad. sk. 

 h-o. Ad. .sk. 

 p. (S ad. sk. 

 q. Skeleton. 



Spanish Town, Jamaica, Feb. H. Bryant [P.] & 



(If. Bryant). Sclater Coll. 



Moneague, Jamaica, Feb. {H. Salvin-GodmauColl. 

 Bryu7it). 



Moneague (0. S. Sf F. B. G.). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Jamaica (Osbnrn). 

 Jamaica. 

 Jamaica. 

 Jamaica. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Capt. Hamilton [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



2. Lampornis violicauda. 



Le Colibri a queue violette, Btiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 65 ; Aud. ^ 



Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. p. 31, pi. 11. 

 Le Colibri a queue violette de Cayenne, Btif. PI. Enl. 671. fig. 2. 

 Trochilus violicauda, Bodd. Tabl. Pi. Enl. p. 41. 

 Trochilus albus, GVh. Syst. Nat. i. p. 488. 

 Trochilus puuctulatus, Gm. iSyst. Nat. i. p. 488 ; Vieill. N. Diet 



d'Hist. N. vii. p. 358 ; id. £nc. Meth. p. 552. 



