312 • TRocniLi. 



Tiochilus rubincus, Gnu Syst. Nat. i. p, 493 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 312 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. vii. p. 371 ; id. Enc. Meth. 



p. 5(38 ; Less. Ind. Gf.n. Troch. p. xxiv ; Cab. in Schomb. Meise n. 



Guiiina, iii. p. 767 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 140. 

 Trocliilus obscurus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 495; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. N. vii. p. 361 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 573. 

 Le Grand Kubis, Aud. Ois. Dor. i. p. 70, pi. 27. 

 L'Oise<au Mouche brun-gris, Aud, Ois. Dor. i. p. 72, pi. 28. 

 Trochilus ruficaudatus, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. N. vii. p. 370; id. 



Enc. Meth. p. 573. 

 Ornismya rubinea, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxiv, 146, 



pis. 44, 45, 46. 

 Heliomaster rubineus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 70. 

 Clytolsema rubinea, Gonld, Mon. Troch. iv. pi. 249 (Oct. 1853) ; id. 



'Intr. Troch. p. 134 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254 ; Cab. <Sr Heine, 



Mus. Hein. lii. p. 30; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 309; Muls. ^ Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 59; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 31 ; Hamilton, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 307; Berl. J.f. Orn. 1873, p. 275; Reinh. J'idmsk. Medd. Nat. 



For. Kjob. 1870, p. 107 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 227 ; 



id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 213; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 56; 



Eudes-Desl. Attn. Mus. Caen, i. p. 251 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 367. 

 Heliodoxa a. Phaiolsema rubinea, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 6, pi. 744. 



ff. 4706-9. 

 Calotborax rubineus, Burm. Syst. Ueh. ii. p. 240. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining reddish bronze ; crown dark 

 green ; forehead and a line along the middle of the crown tapering 

 posteriorly glittering green ; chin blackish ; throat glittering 

 coppery red ; breast glittering green ; rest of the under surface 

 dusky, washed with green ; under tail-coverts green, edged with 

 pale chestnut ; edge of outermost primary and under wing-coverts 

 chestnut ; tail chestnut, central rectrices and edges or tips of the 

 laterals golden bronze ; bill black. Total length about 4*8 inches, 

 wing 2-8 ; tail, central rectrices 1"5, lateral 1"8 ; bill 1. 



Adult female. Crown like the back, shining green; under surface 

 chestnut, paler on the throat ; lateral rectrices (except the outer- 

 most pair, which are plain chestnut) tipped with buff. 



Young males are at first like the females, and gradually assume 

 their sexual characteristic jjlumage first on the throat and on the 

 abdomen. 



Two males (q and r) iu the Gould Collection are in peculiar 

 plumage. The upper and under surface is dusky, the bright throat 

 is of a dull greenish leaden hue, and the median stripe of the 

 crown and breast (normally of a glittering green) are of a dull 

 purple. 



Ilah. South Brazil. 



a. (5 ad. ; h. 2 l^'o, Brazil ( Youds). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



;id. sk. 

 r. $ ad. sk. i;io Claro, Goyaz, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{.Tnyner). 

 d^ K ad. sk. Brazil (Rio mako). Salvin-Gndman & 



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