Sf). l.AMPKASXKR. 323 



3. lolsema luminosa. (Plate YIII. fig. 1.) 

 lolaema luminosa, Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 188; id. Syn. Troch. p. 58. 



Young male. Upper surface dark shining bronze-green, darker 

 and greener on the crown and nape ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 purple-bronze ; under surface glittering coppery red ; throat black, 

 with a gular spot glittering fierj- golden, changing with the inci- 

 dence of light into glittering green ; under tail-coverts edged with 

 dusky white ; central rectrices bronze-black, lateral purple-black ; 

 bill black. Total length about 4'o inches, wing 2-7 ; tail, central 

 rectrices 1-55, lateral 1*75 ; bill I'Oo. 



The type is a young male in which the fully adult characters are 

 not quite developed. It remains to be seen whether the adult has 

 a lustrous frontal spot. 



Hah. ? 



a. c? juv. ? Gould Coll. (Type of species.) 



85. LAMPRASTER. 



Type. 

 Lampraster, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 140 L. branickii. 



Range. Peru. 



1. Lampraster branickii. 



Lampraster branickii. Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 140, 543, pi. 21. f. 1 ; 

 id. Orn. Per. i. p. 286; Mt(h. Hist. Krit. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 200; 

 id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 212 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 

 p. 63 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 290 ; Sharpe in Gould^s 

 Man. Troch., Suppl. pi. 14 (March 1887). 



Adult nmJe. " Entirely green, the feathers of the crown appearing 

 to be a little darker and bordered narj'owly by black, separated by 

 a longitudinal median band starting from the base of the bill and 

 prolonged to the vertex, formed of scaly plumes of a very different 

 green, changing into blue ; the green of the wing-coverts is dis- 

 tinctly more golden than that of the back ; the fore part of the 

 throat divided by a sort of shield formed of scale-like feathers of a 

 rosy-red colour, taking a slight tone of violet under certain lights, 

 and passing into golden and then into green under other reflections 

 of light ; the chin brilliant green ; rest of the lower parts of the 

 body of a shade analogous to that of the back, but becoming verj' 

 brilliant under favourable rays of light : the anal region downy 

 and the under tail-coverts white, as well as the tarsal plumes and 

 a spot behind the eye ; wings violet^brown, with the secondaries 

 of a cinnamon-rufous at the extremity, which is dark, the outer 

 quills bordered with rufous ; tail-feathers black, with a slight lustre 

 of violet-blue, the two middle ones green ; bill black, with the 

 base of the mandible white for a large extent, straight for the 

 entire length, half as long again as the head ; feet brownish, the 

 tarsi clothed with short plumes. Total length 3*9, wing 2-65, 

 tail I'o, bill 1." [Sharpe, J.s.c, ex Taczanovski.) 



Hab. Peru. 



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