lOT. DORICHA. 381 



//'. Bill shorter ; outer rectrices narrower ; base of 

 the wings beneath dark rufous; lateral rectrices 

 of 2 tipped with rufous. 

 a!" . Outer rectrices straight ; forehead and crown 



dark shining green evelynm, p. 383. 



b'". Outer rectrices curved outwardly; forehead 

 and edge of the ruby throat glittering 



bluish red lyrwa, p. 383. 



b. Outermost rectrices like [the next pair, edged with 

 rufous on the inner web ; lateral rectrices of $ 

 tipped with rufous bryanta, p. 384. 



1. Doricha enicura. 



Trochilus enicurus, VieiU. N. Diet. d'Hist. N, xxiii. p. 430 ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 560. 

 Ornismya heteropvgia, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxi, 72, 



pi. 15 ; Suppl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 97. 

 Trochilus heteropygia, Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxxii. 

 Trochilus swainsoni, Less. Hist. Nat. Troch. p. 167, pi. 66. 

 Calothorax heuicurus, Bp. Consp. At: i. p. 85 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 135. 

 Thautuastura enicura, Gould, Man. Troch. iii. pi. 157 (Oct. 1852) ; 



Scl. 8>- Salt: Lbis, 1859, p. 129; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 196, 263, 264; 



Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 299 ; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 203. 

 Calliphlox /3. Doricha enicura, Reich. Anfz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 10, pi. 840. ff. 4981-3. 

 Lucifer enicurus, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257. 

 MjTtis henicura. Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 59. 

 Doricha enicui'a, Gould, Intr. Track, p. 95; Elliot, Syn. Troch. 



p. 124. 

 Amathusia enicura, Muk. 4" Verr. Class. Troch. p. 55. 

 Amalusia enicura, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 10; id. Ann. 



Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 225. 

 Doricha henicura, Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 365. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green, darker and 

 duller on the crown ; chin, ear-coverts, and the intervening space 

 under the eye black, faintly tinged with shining green ; throat 

 glittering amethystine-purple ; breast buffy white ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts shining green ; six middle rectrices shining green 

 like the back, outer two on either side purple-black, the pair next 

 the outermost edged with rufous on the inner web ; bill black. 

 Total length about 4*7 inches, wing 1-3; tail, central rectrices 0'37, 

 lateral 2-4 ; bill 0-8. 



Female. Like the male on the upper surface ; the head duller, and 

 the middle of the back more bronzy green ; under surface pale 

 rufous ; lores and space below the eye blackish brown ; four middle 

 rectrices shining green like the back ; the rest rufous at the base, 

 white at the tip, preceded by a wide subterminal black band ; bill 

 black. Central rectrices 0-6 inch, outer 1. 



Hab. Guatemala. 



