380 TEOCIIILI. 



dark brown, lateral darker; l>ill black. Total length about 5-2 

 inches, wing 2' 15; tail, central rectriees UvS, latwal 2 ; bill 1-85. 



Female. Similar to the male on the upper surface, the central 

 rectriees shining olive-green, the lateral steel-blue, the basal half 

 grey and tipped with white ; central rectriees 1 inch, pair next the 

 outermost 1-45. 



Hah, Western Peru. 



a,b. <S juv. sk. Lima, Peru {Nation). Sclater CoU. 



c. d' juv. sk. Islay, Peru, Oct. {H. Whitely). Gould Coll. 



d-h. S ad.; /, Arequipa, Peru, March, May, Salviu-Godman Si 



J. 5 ad. ,sk. June, July {I£. Whitely). Gould Colls. 



k'. d <id. st. " Purchased. 



2. Rhodopis atacamensis. 



Trochilus atacamensis, Leyhold, An. Univ. de Santiuyo, Chile, xxxii. 



p. 43 (18«:)). 

 Pihodopis atacamensis, Martens, J. f. Orn. 1875, p. 442; Muh. Hist. 



Nat. Ois.-MoKches, iv. p. 26 ; id. Ann. Sue. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 226 ; 



Elliot, Si/n. Troch. p. 116. 

 Rhodopis ?, Sulv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 425. 



Adult male. Very similar to that of K. vesper, but the dimensions 

 decidedly smaller. Total length about 4-5 inches, wing 1-95 ; tail, 

 central rectriees Ow, lateral 1'75 ; bill C>9. 



Female. Also smaller than that sex of R. ve^ycr, and the sub- 

 terminal band of steel-blue on the outer rectriees very narrow. 



Hah. Northern Chili and Southern Peru. 



a. (S ad. sk. Atacama, Chili {Leyhold). Gould Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. 5 ad. sk. Payta, Peru, Nov. (A. H. Mark- Sahin-Godiuau CoU. 



ham). 



1U7. DORICHA. „ 



Type: 



Calliphlox jS. Doricha, Reich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 12 D. enicura. 



Amathusia, Mtds. ^- Verr. Class. Track, p. 85 (1865) .... D. enicura. 



Amathusia (Egolia), Muls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 86 



(1865) D. evelynas. 



Jiaui/e. Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama, 

 and the Bahama Islands. 



Key to the Sj'ieeies. 



a. Outermost rectriees wholly purple-black, the inner 

 webs of the next pair edged with rufous. 

 a'. Throat glittering amethystine-purple; tail very 

 long and straight ; lateral rectriees of 2 tipped 



with white enicura, p. 381.. 



//. Throat glitteriug ruby -red ; tail moderate. 



u". Bill very long ; outer rectriees wide, straight ; 

 base of the wings beneath not dark rufous ; 

 lateral rectrice? of 2 tipped with white .... elizo', p. 382.. 



