33. LAMPROPXGIA. 133 



Key to the Species. 



a. A white patch on either side of the breast. 



a'. General phimage Uack with a bright gular spot. 

 a". Gular spot shining green or bluish green ; 



scapulars blue prunellii, p. 133. 



b". Gular spot dark puq^le ; scapulars dark 



purple-bronze assimilis, p. 134. 



b' . General plumage dark purple-brown ; gular 



feathers edged with pale dusky purpurea, p. 134. 



c". Gular feathers shining rosy purple wilsoni, p. 134. 



b. No ^^•hite spot on either side of the breast. 



c'. Upper surface, including the tail, dark rufous- 

 bronze ; lower back (viewed from behind) 

 shining coppery gTeen cccligena, p. 135. 



d'. Upper surface, including the tail, dark olive- 

 green ; lower back (viewed from behind) 

 shining green cohimhiana, p. 135. 



e'. Upper surface, including the tail, blackish 

 brown ; lower back (viewed from behind) 

 shining green boliviana, p. 13G. 



1. Lampropygia prxmellii. 



Trochilus prunellii, Bourc. ^ Mvls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et JS'at. Lyon, vi. 



p. 36 (1843) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 139. 

 Bourcieria prunellii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 73 ; id. Bev. Zool. 1854, p. 252; 



Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 78 ; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 324. 

 Bourcieria torquata, Beich. Troch. Eymm. p. 7, pi. 750. ff. 4721-22. 

 Cceligena prunellii, Gould, Man. Trvcli. iv. pi. 257 (Sept. 1857). 

 Homophaina prunellii, Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 79. 

 Lampropygia prunellii. Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 137 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 309 ;" Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 58. 

 Dlplilogfena (Helianthea) prunellii, Muls. S/- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 61 . 

 Pilonia prunellii, 3Iuls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 4, iv. p. 214. 

 Eudosia prunellii, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 216. 



Adult male. General plumage black, a golden-green glo.ss on the 

 rump when viewed from in front ; upper tail-coverts dark purple ; 

 when viewed from behind the whole back is of a shining coppery- 

 purple lustre, brighter and more golden on the rump ; the scapulars 

 are lustrous blue, shading into dark purplo on the smaller wing- 

 coverts ; a large white spot on each side of the breast ; a gular spot 

 shining greenish blue ; under tail-coverts black, with dull white edges; 

 tail deep purple-black ; bill black. Total length about 5 inches, 

 wing 3-1 ; tail, central rectrices I'S, lateral 1-9 ; bill 1-3. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hai. Colombia. 



a-g. 6 fid. ; h, i. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman, Gould, 



Juv. sk. «& Sclater Colls. 



j. Ad. St. Purchased. 



