119. ATTHI8. 411 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining golden groon, rather 

 more bronzy on the middle of the back ; throat glittermg rosy red ; 

 breast white ; upper abdomen grey, the sides washed with shining 

 green ; flanks tinged with cinnamon ; lower abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts greyish white ; central rectrices shining green, lateral 

 purple-black tipped with white ; bill black. Total length about 

 3 inches, wing 1*3, tail n'75, bill 0'7. 



Young male. Upi)er surface dark shining golden green ; throat 

 glittering rosy red, the bases of the feathers and the sides of the 

 throat and breast white ; a dusky spot below the eye ; middle of 

 the abdomen whitish ; flauks and under tail-coverts cinnamon ; 

 central rectrices shining golden green, the tips dark ; lateral rec- 

 trices purple-black, tipped with white ; bill bLick. Total length 

 about 2-5 inches, wing 1-3, tail 0-75, bill 0-7. (Type of Lesson's 

 plate 28.) 



Female. Similar to the young male ; the throat white, each 

 feather with a dusky or red discal spot. 



Hah. Guiana. 



a. 1^ juv. sk. Cayenne. Gould Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 



b. S ad. ; c. S juv. sk. ; Cayenne. Gould Coll. 

 d. $ ? sk. 



e. $ ? sk. [Cayenne.] Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



119. ATTHIS. 



lype. 



Trochllus S. Atthis, Rpich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 12 A. heloisie. 



Atthis, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 89. 



Ruii'je. Highlands of Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 



Key 1o the Species. 



a. Outermost primary attenuated towards the end .... hdnisee., p. 41 1. 

 I). Guteniiost primary normal cllioti, p. 412. 



1. Atthis heloisse. 



Ornismya lieloisre, Less. ^ Delattre, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 15. 

 Trochllus b. Atthis heloisse, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 10. pi. 835. ff. 4966-8. 

 Selasphorus heloisa?, Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 141 (Oct. 1854) ; 



Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 298 ; id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 38 J, 1864, p. 177 ; 



Muls. cS- I'err. Class. Troch. p. 89 ; de Oca, La Nat. ii. p. 19, pi. — . 

 TryphiEua hehiisae, B})- Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257 ; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, 



p. 297, 1859, p. 8G7. 

 Atthis heloisse, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 89 ; A. Duges, La Nat. i. 



p. 141 ; Villada, La Nat. ii. p. 357 ; Elliot, N. Am'.B. i. pi. 2i ; id. 



iSi/n. Troch. p. 113; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Muuches, iv. p. 91; id, 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 227 ; Ridi/w. Pr. IT. S. S^t. Mus, 



i. p. 10. 

 Trochllus heloisa, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 145. 



