33. L.VMPEOPTGIA. 135 



rump ; upper tail-coverts darker bronze ; under surface dark brown, 

 chin black, a large gular spot shining purple ; a spot on each side 

 of the neck white ; under tail-coverts indistinctly edged with rufous ; 

 edge of wing and edge of outermost primarj'^ chestnut ; tail dark 

 bronze ; bill black. Total length about 4*8 inches, wing 2-9 ; tail, 

 central rectrices 1*4, lateral 1"7 ; bill 1-4. 



Female. Like the male. 



Younri birds in their first plumage are very like the adult and 

 possess the white spots on the side of the neck. The purple throat 

 is assumed at a later stage. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador. 



«. S ad. sk. Pasto, Ecuador (Lehmann). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b-d. cJ ad. sk. Intac, Ecuador {Bvckley). Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



e. Juv. sk. Citado, Ecuador (Buckley'). Gould Coll. 



/, g. (S ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



h-m. c? ad. ; 7i. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 

 $ ad. sk. Gould CoUs. 



5. Lampropygia coeligena. 



Ornismya coeligena, Less. Hist. Nat. Troch. p. 141, pi. 53. 

 Trochilus coeligena, Zcss.Jmc?. Gen. Troch. p. xviii ; Gray,Hand-l. B. 



I. p. 139. 

 Coeligena typica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 73 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 252; Reich. 



Aufz. d. Col. p. 7 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 3, pi. 686. f. 4515. 

 Lanipropvgia coeligena. Cab. Sj- Heine, Miis. Hein. iii. p. 78 ; Scl. Cat. 



Am. B'-p. 309 ; Gould, Inir. Troch. p. 136 ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 80 ; 



Scl. (^ Sah. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 169, 629 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 55 ; 



Mills. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 10, iv. p. 214 ; id. Ann. Soc. 



Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 216. 

 Bourcieria coeligena, Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 79. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark rufous-bronze, with a tinge of 

 purple on the crown and upper tail- coverts ; rump shining green 

 when viewed from behind, preceded on each feather with a zone of 

 bright bronze ; tail dark rufous-bronze ; under surface dusky, the 

 feathers of the throat edged with white, under tail-coverts edged 

 with rufous ; edge of wing and of outermost primary chestnut ; bill 

 black. Total length about 5-8 inches, wing 315 ; tail, central rectrices 

 1-5, lateral 2-05 ; bill 1-6. 



Female. Like the male. 



Mob. Venezuela. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Venezuela (Goeriny). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 

 e. Ad. sk. Venezuela (Spence). Sclater Coll. 



d-h. Ad. sk. [Venezuela.] Gould Coll. 



t. Ad. sk. Aragua, Venezuela. E. Dyson [C.]. 



6. Lampropygia columbiana. 



Coeligeua typica, Goidd, Mun. Troch. iv. pi. 255 (Oct. 1854). 

 Lanipiopvuia eceligeua, Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 378; Tacz. P. Z. S. 

 1874, p.'543, 1879, p. 239; id. Orn. Per. i. p. 390. 



