34. CYANOLESBIA. 137 



Key to the 8pecies *. 



a. Lateral pair of rectrices glittering violet-blue. 



a'. Smaller ; under surface greener fjorgo y. I6i. 



b'. Larger ; under surface browner .•••:•• '"*«<-'«"*'; P- -^•^^• 



b. Lateral pair of rectrices like the rest, glittering 



green. 

 c' Upper surface darker ; gular spot sapphire-bhie ; 



tail longer ; •.• »"'^''«' P- J^^. 



d'. Upper surface lighter; gular spot greener; tail LP- i^"- 



shorter smaraffdma, 



1. Cyanolesbia gorgo. 



P Lono--tailed Green Humming-bird, Edw. i. pi. 33. 

 *'' Trocbilus forficatus, Linn. Si/sf. Nat. i. p. 190 ; Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. 

 p. 486 ; Vieill. N. Diet. dJHist. N. vii. p. 366 ; id. Enc. M6th. 



Oiseau-Mouches a longe Queue, or, yert et bleu, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



L'Sseau-Mouche a tete bleu, Aud. Sf Vieill. Dor. i. p. 129, pi. GO. 

 Trochilus cyanurus, Steph. in Shaw's Zool. xiv. p. 339 (182G) {nee 



Vieill.); Grai/,IIa7id-l.B.i.\xUS. .-, r ^ r.- 



Trochilus kingi, Less. Hist. Nat. Tvoch. p. 107, pi. 38 ; id. Ind. Gen. 



Truck, p. xviii. 

 Cynauthus foi-ficatus, Sio. Classif. B. ii. p. 330 (1836) {nee Linn. ? ?) ; 



Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 81; Mliof, Si/n. Troch. p. 151. 

 Ornismya (Lesbia) kingi, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 7. 

 MeUisuga forficata. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113. 

 Mellisuga cyanura. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 113. 

 Lesbia gorge, Reich. Aujz. d. Col. pp. 8, 24 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 301 ; 



Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 71. 

 Lesbia forficata, Reich. Axtfz. d. Col. p. 8 ; id. Troch. Emim. p. 5, pi. 718. 

 ff 4(528-9 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 252 ; Cab. i^ Heine, Mus. Hem. 

 iii. p. 71 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 301 ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, 



C\^anthus cyanurus, Gotdd, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 172 (May 1852) ; 

 id Intr Troch. p. 102 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 83 ; IVyatt, 

 Ibis 1871, p. 377; Scl. 8f Salv. P. Z. S 1875, p. 235; Elliot, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 10 ; Mtds. Hist. Nat.^ Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 268, iv. p. 220; 

 id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 224. 



Lesbia kingi, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 212. 



* The following species is unknown to me : — ■ 



Cyanolesbia gkiseiventris. 

 Cjmanthus gi-iseiventris, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 72 ; id. Om.Pcr.L p. 334. 

 " C supra viriclis, fronte squamosa longissime splendidissima ; subtus totua 

 pallid'e cinereus, prnso gulari splendide coeruleo, pluuiis basi albis ; crisso albo ; 

 tectricibus alaruui dorso concoloribus ; canipterio albo ; remige primo externe 

 albo niargiiiato ; cauda profunda emarginata, splendide \iridi, rectricibus 

 niediis splendore apicali latissime cupreo ; rectricibus extcrnis nigris viridi ter- 

 minatis; cauda subtus ca^ruleo virens. 



"Hab. Paucal, Peru (Raymondi)." (Tacz. Orn. Per. i. p. 334.) 



