14U TROCHILI. 



3S. LESBIA. 



Type. 



Lesbia, Less. Lid. G&n. Troch. p. xvii (1832) L. nuna. 



Agaclyta, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 70 (1860) . . L. gouldi. 

 Psalidoprymna, Cab. Sf Heine, Miis. Hein. iii. p. 52 (1860) L. victorise. 



Range. Andes from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Larc^er : all the rectrices, including the central pair, 



black tipped with green victories, p. 146. 



6. Smaller : central rectrices wholly green. 



a'. Exposed portion of the sublateral rectrices black 

 tipped witli green. 

 a". Lateral rectrices reddish purple beneath, the 

 pale portion of the outer web extending be- 

 yond the ends of the sublateral pair ; glitter- 

 ing throat more elongated eucharis, p. 147. 



b" . Lateral rectrices steel-blue beneath, the pale 

 portion of the outer web not extending beyond 

 the ends of the sublateral pair; glittering 



throat less elongated, rounded nuna, p. 148. 



b' . Smallest : exposed portion of all the rectrices, 



except the lateral pair, green gouldi, p. 149. 



1. Lesbia victorise. 



TrochUus victorise, Bourc. ^ Muls. Ann. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Lyon, ix. 



p. 312 (1846) ; iid. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 315, pi. 4. 

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

 Trochilus amaryllis, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 273 ; Gray, HandA. 



B. i. p. 143. 

 Cynanthus victoriag, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 81 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 252. 

 Cynanthus amaryllis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 81. 

 Psalidoprymna amaryllis, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 53. 

 Lesbia amaryllis, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 5, pi. 714. ff. 4620-1 ; 



Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 170 (May 1854) ; id. Lntr. Troch. 



p. 101 ; Jameson ^ Fraser, Lbis, 1859, p. 399 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, 



p. 140, 1868, pp. 460, 555, 1860, pp. 81, 94 ; id. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 301 ; Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 83 ; Laiur. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



IX. p. 237; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 376 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 148; 



Berl. i^ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 305, 1885, p. 103. 

 Lesbia victoriae, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 5, 



pi. 715. ff. 4622-3 ; Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Motickes, iii. p. 286 ; 



Muls. 8f Verr. Class. Troch. p. 83. 

 Psalidoprymna victorise. Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 52 ; Berl. 



J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 328. 

 Lesbia gouldi amaryllis, Berl. Sj- Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 305. 



Adult male. Upper and under surfaces shining golden green 

 (rather dull) ; throat glittering grass-green, drawn to a point on the 

 breast ; under tail-coverts buff ; tail very long, purple-black, each 



