104 TEOCHILI. 



w. 2 ad. sic. Sta. Lucia, April {Ramage). West India Expl. 



Comm. 

 X. Ad. sk. St. Vincent {C. B. Cory). Salvin-GodmanColI. 



y. Ad. St. Purchased. 



2. Eulampis holosericeus. 



Black-bellied green Hunmiing-bird, Hdiu. i. pi. 36. 

 Avis auricoma niexicana, Scba, Thes. i. pi. 99. fig. 4. 

 Colibri vert et noir, Birff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 2'd. 

 Pohtmus mexicanus, Bn'ss. Orn. iii. p. 676, pi. 35. fig. 2. 

 TrocLilus holosericeus, Linn. Si/sf. Niit. i. p. 191 ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 491 ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 305 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. vii. 



p. 357 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 551 ; Less. Hist. Nat. Col. p. 76, pi. 20 ; 



id. Lnd. Gen. Troch. p. xi. 

 Black-bellied Humming-bird, Lath. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 754. 

 Le Vert et Noir, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. p. 22, pi. 6. 

 Eulampis holosericeus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 72 ; id. Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 250; 



Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 83 (Sept. 1867) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 68 ; 



Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 291 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 272, 1874, p. 175; 



E. C. Taylor, Lbis, 1864, p. 170 ; Muls. S, Verr. Class. Troch. p. 45 ; 



Elliot, Lbis, 1872, p. 35 ; id.Sijn. Troch. p. 42; Semim; P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 651 ; Salv. Ibis, 1873, p. 334 ; id. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 363; Mtds. 



Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 134, iv. p. 200; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. 



Lyon, xxii. p. 211 ; Laior. Br. IT. S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 60, 192, 234, 



240, 272, 358, 4.58; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 42; Grisdale, Ibis, 



1882, p. 489 ; Cory, Bns, 1886, p. 472 ; id.B. West Indies, p. 146. 

 Anthracothorax y. Seicotes holosericeus, Beich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11 ; 



id. Troch. Ennm. p. 9, pi. 794. fig. 4847. 

 Anthracothorax y. Seicotes chlorolfemus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11. 

 Eulampis chlorolsemus, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 250 (ex Gould, 318.) ; 



Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 84 (Sept. 1857) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 68 ; 



A. Sf E. Newlo7i, Ibis, 1859, p, 138 ; Scl. Cat. Am.B. p. 291. 

 Lampornis holosericeus, Cab. <$- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 17 ; Gundl. 



/./. Orw. 1878, p. 181. 

 Lampornis chlorolsemus, Cah. Sj- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii, p. 17. 

 Eulampis longirostris, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 69. 

 Polytmns holosericeus et chlorolaemus, G7-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 130. 

 Sericotes holosericeus, Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caeii, i. p. 185. 

 Sericotes longirostris, Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 186. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining golden green, upper and 

 under tail-coverts glittering greenish blue ; wings purple-black ; 

 tail dark steel-blue ; under surface from the chin to the chest glit- 

 tering grass-green, chest glittering blue ; abdomen black, glossed 

 especially on the flanks with green ; bill black. Total length about 

 4'5 inches, wing 2-3, tail 1*4, bill 1. 



Adult female. Precisely like the male. 



Eulampis Morolcemus of Gould was founded upon Nevis specimens, 

 which are described as " having a deeper and less luminous green 

 throat, and the blue patch on the breast dilated into a band of 

 blue extending across the chest." With the series before me I do 

 not see how the species is susceptible of any definite division. 

 The types of E. longirostris, which arc also before me, are in a bad 

 state, and do not justify the supposition that they belong to a 

 distinct species. The bill is rather longer than usual, but as the 



