102 TRocniLi. 



Class. Troch. p. 52 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Momhes, ii. p. 262 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 214 ; Elliot, Sijn. Troch. p. 162 ; 



Sah. Ibis, 1885, p. 433. 

 Streblorliamplius recurvirostris, Cah. S: Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 76. 

 Hylochaiis recurviro.stris. Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 151 . 



Achdt male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green, diiller on 

 the crown ; throat and breast glittering green but not very bright ; 

 middle of the abdomen black ; flauks and under tail-coverts washed 

 with green; central rectrices dark bronzy green, lateral coppery 

 purple, beneath fiery coppery red ; bill black. Total length about 

 3-5 inches, wing 2-25, tail 1-1, bill 0-75. 



Adult female. Under surface white, a median line black ; the sides 

 of the neck and tianks shining green ; lateral rectrices blue-black 

 tipped with white. 



Yo%mg male. Like the female, but M'ith the bases of the lateral 

 rectrices beneath on the inner webs fiery coppery red, the glittering 

 green of the throat begins to appear in the middle and thence to 

 spread over the white portion on either side. 



Hcth. Guiana. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, 13rit. Guiana, Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Aug. {H. Whitely). 



b, c. c5' ad. ; d. J Guiana. Salvin-Godmau & 

 juv. ; e. 2 ad. Gould Colls, 



sk. 

 f. (S ad. St. Purchased. 



23. EULAMPIS. 



Type. 



Eidampis, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 547 E. jugularis. 



Anthracothorax y. Sericotes, Lteich. Aufz. d. Col. 

 p. 11 (1854) E. holosericeus. 



Range. Lesser Antilles, from the Virgin Islands to St. Vincent. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Wings shining green ; throat rich shining vinous- 



red jugtdaris, p. 102. 



b. Wings dark purple-black ; throat glittering grass- 



green holosericeus, p. 104. 



1. Eulampis jugularis. 



' Red-breasted Humming-bird, Edio. Glea^iings, ii. pi. 266. fig. 2 ; Lath. 



Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 753. 

 Le Grenat, Buff". Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 48; And. ^- Vieill. Ois. Dor. 



i. p. 20, pi. 4. 

 Colibri violet, Ltiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 57. 

 Colibri violet de Cayenne, Bi/f. PL Enl. 600. fig. 2. 

 Colibri a g^rge cariiiin, Buf. Hist. Nut. Ois. vi. p. 5(5. 

 Violet Hummiug-bird, Lath. Syn. i, pt. 2, p. 756. 

 Gamet-throated Humming-bird, Lath. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 752, pi. 24. 

 Polytmus cayenueusis violaceus, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 083, pi. 35, fig. 3, 



