20. LAMPORNIS. 95 



3. Lampornis gramineus. 



Le Colibri a Cravate verte, Buff. Hist. Nat. Vis. vi. p. 50 ; And. &■ 



Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. p. 29, pi. 10. 

 Le Hausse-Col vert, £iiff. Hist. JS'at. Ois. vi. p. 58 ; dud. &■ Vieill 



Ow. Do;-, i. p. 26, pl."9. 

 Le Colibri a gorge verte de Cayenne, £uf. PI. Enl. 671. tig. 1. 

 Green-tbroated Humming Bird, Luth. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 755." 

 Black-breasted Humming Bird, Lath. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 756. 

 Trocbilus gramineus, Gm. Syst. Kat. i. p. 488 ; Less. Hist. Nat. Col. 



p. 52, pis. 12, 13 ; Lnd. Gen. Troch. p. x. 

 Trocbilus niaculatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 488. 

 Trocbilus gularis, Lath. Lnd. Oni. pt. i. p. 563 j Vieill. N. Uict. 



d'Hist. N. vii. p. 349 ; LJnc. Mct/i. p. 553. 

 Trocbilus pectoralis, Lat/i. Lnd. Orn. pt. 1, p. 306 ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. N. vii. p. 351 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 551. 

 Lampornis gramineus, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 77 (May 1858) ; 



id. Lntr. Troch. p. 65 ; Cab. |- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 18 : Scl. Cat. 



Am B. p. 291 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1862, p. 91 ; Muls. S,- Verr. 



Class. Troch. i. p. 24 ; ;S'e/. l*>- Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 584; Finsch, 



P. Z. ,S'. 1870, p. 562; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, \. p. 148, 



It. p. 153 ; id. Ann. Sac. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 202 ; Elliot, Syn. 



Troch. p. 40 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 201 ; Salv. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 362 ; Ibis, 1885, p. 432. 

 Polytmus dominicus, Leot. Ois. Trin. p. 132 (1866). 

 Polytmus gramineus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 125. 



Adult male. Upper suiface golden green, brighter on the lower 

 back, duller on the head ; throat glittering grass-green ; middle of 

 the abdomen black, flanks dark green ; under tail-covcrts greenish 

 black : central rectrices dark brown with a purple gloss, lateral rich 

 purple edged with steel-blue; bill black. Total length 4-S inches, 

 wing 2-85, tail 1-5. 



Adult female. Under surface white, with a black median stripe 

 from the chin towards the abdomen ; sides of the neck and flauk.s 

 green ; lateral rectrices rich purple tipped with white and with a 

 wide subtcrminal steel-blue bar. 



Young males have more or less rufous on either side of the black 

 median stripe beneath ; the green of the throat of the adult is usually 

 first assumed on the lower part of the throat, and thence spreads 

 upwards and sideways ; the lateral rectrices are at first like those of 

 the female. 



Bab. Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, and the Lower Amazon valley, 



a-d. S ad. sk. (Trinidad make.) Salviu-Godman, 



Gould, & Tweed- 

 dale Colls. 

 c. ^ ad. sk. Guiana {Spencc). Sclater Coll. 



f-h. S juv. ; t. Demerara. Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 

 j. d ad.; k, I. S (Cayenne make.) Gould & Sclater 



juv.:wi. 2ad.sk. Colls. 



n. (S ad. sk. Mexiaua Island, Amazons, Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Dec. (A. Li. Wallace). 



