!)!). LODDIGESIA. 



355 



p. c? ad. sk. St. Thomas, West Indies {A. 



Newton). 

 /. S ad. ; ff. 2 St. Thomas, W. I. 



ad. sk. 

 A. S ad. sk. Nevis, W. 1. 



t. d ad. sk. Dominica, W. I. {F. Ober). 



j. (S ad. sk. 

 k. (S ad. sk. 

 /. (S ad. sk. 

 m, n. (S 2 ad. st. 



Martinique, W. I. {E. C. 



Taylor). 

 Martinique, Nov. ( W. B. 



Richardson). 

 Santa Lucia, W. I. {Semper), 



Sclater Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman & 



Sclater Colls. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman & 



Sclater Colls. 

 Purchased. 



99. LODDIGESIA. 



Loddigesia, " Gould,'" Bp. Comp. Av. i. p. 80 (1849) . . 

 Loddigesia, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 161 (Sept. 1861). 

 Loddigesiornis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxx. p. 381 (18.50) . . 

 Orthorhvnchus S. Mulsantia, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12. . 

 Thaumantoessa, Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 209 L. mirabilis. 



Range. Central Peru. 



Type._ _ 

 L. mirabilis. 



L. mirabilis. 

 L. mirabilis. 



1. Loddigesia mirabilis. 



Trochilus mirabilis, Bourc. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 42. 



Loddigesia mirabilis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 80 ; Gould, Mon, Troch. 



iii. pi. 161 (Sept. 1801) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 99; Muls. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 2-52; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 224; 



Elliot, Sipi. Troch. p. 145; Scl. Sr Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 1-52: Tacz.^ 



Stolzm. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 827 ; Tacs. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 35 ;' id. Orn. 



Per. i. p. 318. 

 Loddigesiornis mirabilis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxx. p. 381 ; id. Rev. 



Zool. 1854, p. 2.56. 

 Orthorhynchus 5. Mulsantia mirabilis, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. 



Troch. Enum. p. 9, pi. 810. f. 4S88. 

 Thaumantoessa mirabilis, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 209. 

 Platura mirabilis, Muls. c^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 80. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green, becoming darker 

 and more bronzy on the upper back and back of the neck, brighter 

 on the upper tail-coverts ; forehead, crown, and elongated crest- 

 plumes glittering blue ; under surface white, middle of the throat 

 glittering bluish green, passing through green into bronze on the 

 sides, and margined with black ; middle of the breast and abdomen 

 bronzy black ; under tail-coverta shining green, the longest 

 (measuring 2-8 inches) becoming steel-blue and tipped with white ; 

 centra] rectrices very short and covered by the longer upper tail- 

 coverts, shining green, the outermost pair steel-blue, very long, and 

 curved and crossing one another twice, once near the base and 

 again about 1-3 from the base ; a narrow decreasing web on either 

 side, expanding into a large disc nearly an inch in diameter at the 



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