]04. PANOPLITES. 373- 



Intr. Troch. p. 80 ; Cab. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. m. p. 74 ; 8cl. Cat. 

 Am. B. p. 294 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 233, pi. 51 ; 

 id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 213; Elliot, Sijn. Troch. p. 53 ; 

 Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 227 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll.. 

 p. 363. 

 Florisuga (Galenia) jardinii, Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 47. 



Adult male. Upper surface glittering bluish green ; longest tail- 

 coverts purple-black ; neck black ; crown and chin dark shining 

 violet-blue ; under surface shining violet ; sides of the chest glit- 

 tering green ; wing-coverts shining green, the smaller series glit- 

 tering; edge of the outermost primary and under wing-coverts 

 chestnut ; under tail-eoverts purple-black, tipped with white ; middle 

 rectrices greenish purple, laterals white, tipped and edged with 

 purple-black ; bill black. Total length about 4*8 inches, wing 3"1 ; 

 tan, central rectrices 1*5, lateral 1-9 ; bill 1. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young males are shining green above, and gradually assume the 

 glittering green feathers ; the violet head is assumed before the 

 violet throat, which in the first instance is black like the neck. 



Hab. Ecuador. 



a-p. Ad. et juv. sk. Nauegal, Ecuador {Jameson). Salvin-Godman & 



Gould Colls. 

 q, r. Ad. ; s. Juv. Intac, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



2. Panoplites matthewsi. 



Troehilus matthewsi, " Lodd.,'' Bourc. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 43 ; id. Rev. 



Zool. 1847, p. 255; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 141. 

 Heliodoxa matthewsi, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11. 

 Clytolaema matthewsi, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 254 ; Muls. <^ Verr. 



Class. Troch. p. 59; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-3Iouckes, ii. p. 230, 



t. 50, iv. p. 207 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 213. 

 Panoplites matthewsi, Gould, Man. Troch. ii. pi. 113 (Oct. 1854) ; 



id. Intr. Troch. p. 80 ; id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 803 : Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 145; Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Heiti. iii. p. 74; Whitely, P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 784 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 544, 1879, p. 237, 1880, 



p. 204, 1882, p. 35 ; id. Orn. Per. i. p. 295 ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1876, p. 16; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 54; Eudes-Desl. Ami. Mus. 



Caen, i. p. 229 ; Berl. ^- Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 304, 1885, p. 102. 

 Boissoneaua matthewsi, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 8, pi. 788. ff4832- 



33. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green, brighter and 

 more glittering on the crown ; under surface dark chestnut, paler 

 on the throat, where each feather bears a glittering green spot ; 

 central rectrices bronze-green, laterals chestnut with bronze-green 

 tips ; edge of the outermost primary and under wing-coverts chest- 

 nut ; bill black. Total length about 4*5 inches, wing 2*8 ; tail,, 

 central rectrices 0-6, lateral 1-75; bill 0*9. 



Female. Like the male. 



Younij birds are dusky beneath, each feather with a dull green 



