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3. Doricha evelynsB. 



Trochilus evelynse, Bourc. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 44. 

 Lucifer 5. Calotliorax evelynae, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 18. 

 Thaiimastura evelynfe, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 156 (May 1861). 

 Doricha evelynae, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 95 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 353; id.^Syn. Troch. p. 125; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. 



p. 38, pi. 106. f. 3 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 226 ; Cory, 



Birds Bahama Ls. p. 108 ; id. Birds West Ind. p. 150 ; Nm-throp, 



Auh, viii. p. 73. 

 Trochilus bahainensis, Bryant, Pr. Bosf. Soc. N. H. V\\. p. 106. 

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



Adult male. Upper surface (including the forehead) shining 

 golden green ; throat glittering ruby-red, passing into bluish red on 

 the sides and lower edge ; breast white ; abdomen rufescent, washed 

 (especially on the flanks) with shining golden green ; under tail- 

 coverts pale rufous ; a patch of dark rufous at the base of the 

 wings, and spreading over the proximal coverts ; central pair of 

 rectrices shining green, the next pair purple-black, edged with 

 green, the outermost pair wholly purple-black, and the intermediate 

 two on each side rufous on the inner web to and including the 

 shaft towards the base, nearly to the shaft towards the tip ; bill 

 black. Total length about 3'7 inches, wing 1-5 ; tail, central 

 rectrices 0*6, lateral 1*25 ; bill 0'7. 



Female. Upper surface like that of the male ; under surface 

 ding}' white, more rufescent on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 lateral rectrices rufous at the base and tip, and with a wide sub- 

 terminal black band. 



Hah. Bahamas, New Providence and Andros Is. 



rt. (5" ad. sk. Nassau, Bahamas (ex G. N. Law- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



rence). 



b. 5 ad. sk. Nassau {Blake). Sclater Coll. 



c-i. cS &i.;J,k. Bahamas. Gould & Sclater 



$ ad. sk. Colls. 



4. Doricha lyrura. 



Doricha lyrura, Gould, Ann. ^ Maq. N. If. 1869, iv. p. Ill ; id. 

 Mon. Troch. Suppl. pi. 54 (Jan. 1881); Elliot, Ibis, 1872, p. 354; 

 id. Syn. Troch. p. 126 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 41 ; 

 id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 226; Cory, Birds Bahama Is. 

 p. 110 ; id. Birds West Ind. p. 150. 



Adult male. Similar to that of D. evehjnoi, but with the lateral 

 rectrices narrower, longer than the next pair, and slightly curved 

 outwards towards the tip ; the forehead too is glittering bluish 

 red like the edges of the ruby throat. 



Female. Similar to that sex of D. evelynce. 



Younrj male. Throat buff, the glittering feathers appearing irre- 

 gularly over the surface ; the outer rectrices are almost wholly 

 rufous on the inner web. 



Hah. Bahamas, Long Island and Magua I. 



