94. RHAMPUOJllCRoJf. 343 



2. Rhamphomicron dorsale. 



Rhamphomici'on dorsale, Salv. 4" Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 172, pi. 5 ; 

 Sharpe in Gould's Mon, Troch., Suppl. pi. 43 (Jan. 1883). 



Adult male. Upper surface black ; upper tail-coverts tinged with 

 purple-bronze ; sides of the throat black, middle of the throat 

 glittering greeuish-gold ; rest of the under surface dusky, washed 

 with bronzy green ; under tail-coverts dusky greeu, edged with 

 pale grey ; tail purplish black ; bill black. Total length about 4-2 

 inches, wing 2*3; tail, central rectrices 1"15, lateral 2; bill O'o. 



Female. Upper surface shining grass-green ; upper tail-coverts 

 purple-bronze ; under surface huffy white ; thi'oat and flank-feathers 

 with shining green discal spots ; lateral rectrices tipped with white. 

 Length of the central rectrices 1"1, lateral I'o. 



Hah. Highlands of Northern Colombia. 



a. S ad. ; b. J Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Salvin-Godman Coll, 

 ad. sk. Colombia, July (^F. Simons). (Types of the species.) 



3. Ehamphomicron heteropogon. 



Ornismya heteropogon, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 355 ; id. Mag. Zool. 



1840, Ois. pi. \-2 ; Lodd. P. Z. S. 1843, p. U2. 

 Trochilus coruscus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 15. 

 Rhamphomicron heteropogon, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 79 ; Gould, Mon. 



Troch. iii. pi. 184 (Oct. 1854) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 109 ; Scl. Cat. 



Am. £. p. 302 ; 3Iuls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 73 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 



1871, p. 377 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 167 ; id. Ann. 



Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 221 ; Flliot, Si/n. Troch. p. 158. 

 Khamphomicron y. Chalcostigma heteropogon, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. 



p. 12 ; id. Troch. Eman. p. 10, pi. 820. ff. 4922-3. 

 Lampropogon heteropogon, Cab. 4" Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 67. 

 Trochilus heteropogon. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 141. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining greenish bronze, becoming 

 deeper redder bronze on the back of the neck, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; under surface bronzy green ; chin and throat glittering 

 green, followed by a tuft of elongated amethyst feathers sur- 

 rounded by a bronzy-black border ; middle of the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts buff, the latter with paler edges ; tail shining 

 bronzy brown ; bill black. Total length about 4'S inches, wing 2-7 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 1-5, lateral 2-4; bill 0-65. 



Female. Upper surface like that of the male ; throat nearly like 

 the rest of the under surface, the feathers with greenish discs, but 

 without glittering or elongated plumes. 



Hab. Colombia. 



a. S ad. sk. Paramo of Pamplona, Colombia Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



(C. W. Wyatt). 



b-i. d ad. ; ,/, /■;. Colombia (Bogota make), Salvin-Godman & 



cJ juv. ; l-n. Gould Colls. 



$ ad. sk. 



0, p. S id- St. Purchased. 



