38. LESBIA. 147 



feather tipped with bronzy green, the outermost rectrix with the 

 basal portion of the outer web to a little beyond the tips of the next 

 pair, with the shaft adjoining, dull white ; bill black, Total length 

 about 9-.5 inches, wing '2-3o ; tail, central rectrices 0-85, lateral 6-8 ; 

 bill (rather curved) 0-85. 



Adult female. Under surface white, each feather with a green 

 discal spot ; tail much shorter than in the male, but similarly 

 marked. Length of central rectrices 0-95, lateral 3-3. 



Young male. Like the female ; the glittering throat of the adult 

 gradually taking the place of the spotted one. 



Hah. Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. 



a, b. S ad. ; c-g. Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 



(S juv. sk. Gould Colls. 



h. ^ juv. sk. Colombia. Bourcier [C.]. 



i. (S ad. sk. Riobamba, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/, k. c? ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador (Fraser). Gould & Sclater 



CoUs. 



I. c? ad. ; m. $ Ecuador (Fraser). Salvin-Godman & 



ad. sk. Sclater Colls. 



n, 0. c? ad. ; p-u. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



cJjuv. ;?;-y. 2 Sclater Colls. 



ad. sk. 

 z. cf ad. St. Purchased. 



2. Lesbia eucharis. 



Trochilus eucharis, Bourc Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 274. 



Lesbia eucharis, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. 



pi. 171 ^Sept. 1860) ; id. hitr. Troch. p. 102 ; Muls. ^- Verr. Clasa. 



Troch. p. 88 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 289 ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Liyin. Lyon, xxii. p. 2-25; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 147. 

 Cynanthus eucharis, £p. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 252. 

 Psahdoprymna eucharis, Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 328. 



Adult male,. Similar to that of L. victoria but smaller, and with a 

 shorter tail and shorter, straighter bill ; the glittering green of the 

 throat is nearly as elongated, but not shortened and rounded as in 

 L. mma and L. gouldi. The central and next two pairs of rectrices 

 are shining green, the sublateral pair dark for most of the exposed 

 portion of their length, with green tips ; the lateral pair, too, are 

 tipped with bronzy green ; the pale -webs of the outer rectrices reach 

 beyond the tips of the next pair. 



Adult female. Under surface nearly white, all the feathers with 

 green discal spots ; the white portion of the outer webs of the outer 

 rectrices extends over more than three fourths of the feather. 



Hah. Colombia. 



Very closely allied to L. nuna. 



a. <3 ad. sk. San Buenaventura, Colombia Gould Coll. 



(Bourcier). (Type of the species.) 



b. S ad. ; c. 9 (Skins of similar make.) Gould Coll. 



ad. sk. 



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