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28. LEPIDOLARYNX. ^^^^ 



Selasplaorns 8. Lepidolarynx, Eeich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13 



(1854) L- mesoleucus, 



Lepidolarynx, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 140 (1861). 



Mange, South-eastern Brazil. 



1. Lepidolarynx mesoleucus. 



Trochilus mesoleucus, Temm. PI. Col. 317. f. 1 ; Legs. Iiul. Gen. Troch. 



p. xix ; Gray, Hcind-l. B. i. p. 137. 

 Ornismya niesoleuca, Less. Hist Nat. Ois.-Moiwhes, pp. xxiv, 110, 



pis. 19, 20; <SV^jj;Z. p. 98. 

 Ornismya temminckii, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouclies, pp. xxvi, 88, 



pi. 20. 

 Heliomaster mesoleucus, Bp. Co7isp. Av. i. p. 70 ; Gould, P. Z. S. 



1853, p. 100; id. Man. Troch. iv. pi. 262 (May 1853); Peinh. 



Medd. Nat. For. Kjob. 1870, p. 106. 

 Trochilus squamosus, Temm. Pi. Col. 203. iio'. 1. 

 Selasphorus 8. Lepidolarynx mesoleucus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13. 

 Ornithomyia mesoleuca, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 251. 

 Calothorax mesoleucus, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 339. 

 Heliomaster squamosus. Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 53 ; Peh. 



Orn. Bras. p. 31. 

 Lepidolarynx mesoleucus, Gould, Litr. Troch. p. 140 ; Muls. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 283 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 215 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 85. 

 Calliperidia (Lepidolavvnx) mesoleucus, Muls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 50. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green : an irregular 

 white patch on the lower back; whole crown glittering bluish 

 green ; throat glittering rosy-red, the lateral feathers elongated, a 

 stripe on either side from the gape white ; abdomen dark shining 

 green, a median stripe and a patch on each ilank white ; under 

 tail-coverts dark green, broadly edged with white ; tail dark green, 

 the lateral rectrices darker than the central; bill black. Total 

 length about 4-4 inches, wing 2-25; tail, central rectrices 1-2, 

 lateral 1-6 ; bill 1-3. 



Female. Upper surface paler, the crown uniform with the back ; 

 throat black, most of the feathers with a white edge but with them 

 a few glittering rosy-red feathers ; rectrices uniform dark green, the 

 lateral with a subterminal dark band and a white tip. 



