a. S ad. sk. Piierto'Rico. H, Bryant [P.], 



b. c. S ad. sk, Puerto Rico (H. Brycait). Salvin-Godman & 



Sclater Colls. 

 d-(/. cH (id. ; Ji-j, St.ThomnSj'W. I. (A. H.Riise). Sahiii-Godmau & 



cj" juv. sk. Sclater Colls. 



A. (5 juv. sk. St.Thomas,^. 1. {A. H.Eiise). A. Newton, Esq. 



7. Lampornis prevosti. 



Trocliilus prevosti, Less. Hist. Nat. Col, p. 87, pi. '24 ; id. hid. Gen. 



Troch. p. xii; Bourc. ^- Mtds. Ann. Soc. d'Affr. Lyotis, 1843, 



p. 39. 

 Lampornis prevosti, IJj). C'onsp. i. p. 72 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 250 ; 



Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 75 (May 1858) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. G5 ; 



Scl. I'. Z. S. 185G, p. 289, 1859, pp. 367, 385 ; Sol. ^- 8alv. Ibis, 



1859, p. 127 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 207, 837 ; Mids. ^ Verr. Class. 



Troch. p. 24 ; Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 272, 1864, p. 380 ; id. Cat. Strickl. 



Coli. p. 362; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 178; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Miis. no. 4, p. 121 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 140, iv. 



p. 166 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn- Lyon, xxii. p. 203 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch, 



p. 89; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Miis. Caen, i. p. 195; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 451 ; Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 365. 

 Anthracotborax prevosti, -Re/c7«. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11 ; id. Enum. Troch. 



p. 8, pi. 792. ft: 4842-44. 

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

 Lampornis thalassinus, Midyw. Pr. Biol. Sc. Wash, iii. p. 23. 

 Lampornis prevosti thalassinus, Ridytv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. 



p. 673. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green ; under surface 

 glittering green ; throat black, on the sides of "which and on the 

 middle of the abdomen the green has a blue tint ; under tail- 

 coverts purple-black, the ends of the feathers dark coppery ; central 

 rectriccs greenish steel-blue black, lateral rich purple edged with 

 steel-blue ; bill black. Total length 4-5 inches, wing 2-6, tail 1*45, 

 bill V2. 



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

 sometimes mixed with green feathers on the lower part of the 

 throat ; under tail-coverts dark green tipped with white ; lateral 

 tail-feathers pui'ple tipped with white, and with a wide subterminal 

 steel-blue bar. 



In young birds the sides of the neck and tiauks are freely marked 

 with chestnut ; young males assume their adult plumage by the 

 gradual spread of green feathers from the middle of the under sur- 

 face towards the sides. The lateral rectrices in young males are 

 tipped Avith white, sometimes tinged with chestnut. 



Hah. Mexico from the State of Tamaulipas southwards, Yucatan 

 and the islands of the Eay of Honduras, Guatemala, and thence 

 southwards to Costa llica, from the sear-level to a height of about 

 1500 feet ; Venezuela. 



a. (S ad.; b. 5 ad. Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. March ( W. B. Richardson). 



c. (S ad. sk. Tampico, Tamaulipas, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. B. R.). 



