20. LAMPOENIS. 97 



Lanipornis aiinileutus, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 80 (May 1858) ; 

 id. Intr. Troch. p. 68 ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1800, p. 377 ; Muls. i^- 

 Verr. Class. Troch. p. 14 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches,\. p. 152; 

 id. Ann. Sac. Linn. Li/on, xxii. p. 202 ; Gundl. J. f. Orn. 1878, 

 p. 181 ; id. An. Soc. Esp. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 22-3. 



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



Adult male. Upper surface dark golden green, more bronze on 

 the longest npper tail-coverts : throat glittering golden green, pass- 

 ing gradually into dark purple-black on the rest of the under 

 surface, including the under tail-coverts ; flanks green ; central 

 rectrices steel-blue, lateral rich purple edged with steel-blue ; bill 

 black. Total length about 5 inches, wing 2'8 ; tail, central rec- 

 trices 1-5, lateral 1-8 ; bill 1-2. 



Adult female. Under surface grey; central rectrices dark green, 

 lateral purple tipped with white and with a wide subterminal steel- 

 blue bar. 



Young males commence their adult dress by assuming golden-green 

 feathers on the middle of the throat and purple-black ones on the 

 middle of the chest and abdomen ; these gradually spread laterally 

 until the full adult plumage is acquired. 



Hah, Island of JSan Domingo, including Haiti. 



a. (S !id. ; Ij-d. § Samaua, Sau Domingo, Sept. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. (C. G. McGritjor). 



e. cS ad. ; /. $ Sau Domiugo. A. Salle [C.]. 



ad. sk. 



ff. $ ad. sk. Port au Prince, Haiti, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{C. A. Younylove). 



h. (J ad. sk. San Domingo {Smiths. Imt.). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



i,j. cJad. ; k. <S Sau Domingo. Goidd Coll. 



juv. ; I. $ ad. 



sk. 



m, 11. c? ad.; o. J Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. Nov., Dec. {M. A. Frazar). 

 {Cory Coll.) 



p. 5 skeleton. San Domingo. Gould Coll. 



6. Lampornis virginalis. 



Lamporuis virginalis, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 80 (Sept. 1861) ; 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 06; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 291. 

 Polytnms virginalis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 126. 

 Lampornis ellioti, Cory, Au7:, vii. p. 374 (1890). 



Adult male. Similar to that of L. dominieus but smaller, with less 

 black on the abdomen, shorter rounded tail, the central rectrices of 

 which are bronze and not steel-blue. Length of tail, central rectrices 

 1-3, lateral 1-4. 



Younrj males are grey beneath, the glittering golden-green 

 feathers of the throat commence to appear in the centre and spread 

 to the sides. 



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