168 TROCHIM. 



Intr. Troch. p. 110 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 263 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 96; id. Cat. Am. B. p. y08 ; Muk. Hid. Nat. Ois.-Mouches/vA. 



p. 101, pi. 77 ; id. Anti. Soc. Linn. Li/on, xxii. p. 2:20 ; Elliot, Syn. 



Troch. p. 92. 

 Basilinna d. Urosticte benjamini, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13. 

 Heliotrypha benjamini, Muls. (^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 69. 



Adult male. Upper surface uniform grass-green, a large postbcular 

 white spot ; throat glittering green ; a large lilac pectoral spot 

 followed below by a white band ; abdomen shining grass-green, 

 the feathers of the middle edged with greyish white ; under tail- 

 coverts green, edged with white; central rectrices bronze-green, and 

 as well as the next pair conspicuously tipped with pure white ; 

 lateral rectrices dark bronzy green ; bill black. Total length about 

 4 inches, wing 2 ; tail, central rectrices 1*2, lateral 1'55 ; bill 0-9. 



Female. Upper surface uniform shining grass-green ; a large white 

 postocular spot as in the male ; under surface white, each feather 

 with a shining green discal spot ; lateral rectrices tipped with 

 white. 



Young males have rufous throats and gradually assume the 

 glittering green feathers of the adult ; the white tips to the four 

 median rectrices and the pectoral spot are assumed at an early age. 



ffah. Ecuador. 



a-c. c? ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 

 d-f. (^ ad. sk. Baisa, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould CoUs. 

 g. S *id. ; h. cS Eoxa, Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. 

 i-p. (S ad. ; q-u. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



J juv. ; v-z. Gould Colls. 



$ ad. sk. 

 a'. 2 ad. sk. Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



2. Urosticte intermedia. 



Urosticte intermedia, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 36; id. Orn. P6r. i. 

 p. 351 ; Sharpe in Gould's Suppl. Troch. (Mar. 1887). 



" Supra aureo viridis ; gula et coUo antico squamosis, nitente 

 viridibus ; pectoris medio oruamcnto obscure violaoeo ; abdomine 

 viridi, plumis griseo marginatis ; subcaudalibus rufescentibus, disco 

 viridi ; macula alba postoculari minima ; remigibus brunneis, 

 nitore violaceo ; cauda emarginata, rectricibus basi aeneo-viridibus, 

 apice fusco cupreis, mndiis et submediis brevioribus, macula alba 

 terminatis. 



'■^ Few. Subtus alba, viridi maculata ; rectricibus ternis utrinque 

 lateralibus albo terminatis ; subcaudalibus rufescente albida." 

 (Taczanovjski, I. ,«. c.) 



Hah. Peru. 



