124. LOPHORNIS. 419 



p. 257; Dfis Murs in Cast. Voy. i. p. 41 ; Goidd, Mon. Troch. iii, 



pi. 153 (Mav 1857) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 93 ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. 



Hein. iii. p. 58 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 299 ; Scl. Sf Sain. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 987, 1868, pp. 668, 569; Nation, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 498; 



Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 543, 1880, p. 306 ; id. Oni. Per. i. p. 314 ; 



M%ds. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iv. p. 8, pi. 100; id. Ann. Soc. 



Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 225; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 123 ; Salv. P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 425. 

 Lucifer y. Thaumastura cora, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 13 ; id. Troch. 



Enum. p. 10, pi. 846. ff. 4999-5000. 

 Heliactin (Thaumastura) cora, Mills. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 91. 

 Calothorax cora, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 135. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining green ; throat glittering 

 rosy red in the middle, and shading into casrulean blue towards the 

 sides ; rest of the under surface white, flanks tinged with shining 

 green ; central rectrices very short, white, dusky on the outer web ; 

 the next pair very long, white on the inner web, and shaft blackish 

 on the outer web and the whole of the tip ; the remaining lateral 

 rectrices gradually shorter towards the outside, blackish, with a 

 white margin to the inner web ; bill black. Total length about 

 6-5 inches, wing 1-5 ; tail, central rectrices 0-55, next pair 4-5, 

 outermost pair 1 ; bill 0'7. 



Female. Under surface white, throat and flanks tinged with buff ; 

 tail cuneate ; central rectrices coloured like the back, lateral white 

 at the base and at the tip, with a wide subterminal black band. 



Hah. Western Peru. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Lima, Peru (Nation). Sclater Coll. 



b. cj juv. sk. Lima (A. H. Markham). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ('-ff- <S juv. ; h. Valley of the Rimac, Peru Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. {A. H. Markham). 



i. 2 ad. sk. Peru ( Warszewiez). Gould Coll. 



j-u. c? ad. ; V, w. Arequipa, Peru, Feb. to June Salvin-Godman, 



2 ad. sk. ( W. Whitely). Tweeddale, & 



Gould CoUs, 

 X. (S ad. St. Purchased. 



124. LOPHORNIS.* ^^^^ 



Lophornis, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, p. xxxvii 



(1829) L. ornatus. 



Bellatrix, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 545 L. ornatus. 



Lophorinus, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257 L. delattrii. 



Polemistria, Cab. ^ Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 63 ... . L. verreauxi. 



Telamon, Muls. S)- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 75 (1865). . L. delattrii. 



Paphosia, Muls. Sr Verr. Class. Troch. p. 75 (1865) . . L. helenje. 

 Dialia, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, p. 223 



(1875) _ L. adorabilis. 



Idas, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 223 . , . , L. macnificus. 



Aurinia, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 223 . . L. verreauxi. 



JRange. Southern Mexico, southwards to Bolivia and South- 

 eastern Brazil. 



* I do not know the species from Colombia described bj' M. Simon (Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. Fr. XV. p. 17) as :— Lophornis insignibarbis. 



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