420 



Key to the Species, 



Throat and chin rrlittering green. 

 a . Abdomen grey, washed with green. 



a". Lateral cervical feathers much elongated; 

 no pectoral spot of white feathers. 

 a!" . Lateral cervical feathers not dilated at 

 the tips, terminating with glittering 

 green round spots. 

 a*. Lateral cervical feathers cinnamon . . ornatus, p. 420. 



i*. Lateral cervical feathers white goulcli, p. 421. 



h'" . Lateral cervical feathers dilated at the 

 tips and terminating with transverse 



glittering green spots magnificus, p. 422. 



b". Lateral cervical feathers not elongated ; a 



pectoral spot of narrow white feathers. 



c . Crest-feathers narrow at the tips, and 



only the longest tipped with golden 



green. 



c*. Ends of the longest crest-feathers 



slightly spatuled, and spots larger . . regulus, p. 423. 

 d*. Ends of the crest-feathers pointed; 



spots evanescent delattrii, p. 423. 



d''' . Crest-feathers wider, all tipped with 



large purple-black spots stictolophus, p. 424. 



b' . Abdomen white, spangled with golden spots . helence^ p. 425. 



c' . Abdomen cinnamon adorabilis, p. 425. 



Throat and chin not ornamented with glittering 



feathers. 

 d'. Elongated lateral cervical feathers narrow, 

 tipped with white. 



e". Breast greyish ; no occipital crest chalybeus, p. 426. 



d" . Breast black ; a short occipital crest .... verreauxi, p. 427. 

 e'. Elongated lateral cervical feathers wide, with 



a subtemiinal black spot ; no occipital crest, pavoninus, p. 427, 



1. Lophornis ornatus. 



Oiseau-Mouche, dit Hupe-col de Cayenne, d'Auh. PI. Enl. 640. 



f. 3. 

 Trochilus ornatus, Bodd. Tahl. PL Enl. p. 39 ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 497; Lath. Bid. Orn. p. 318; Aud. ^ Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. p. 113, 



pis. 49-51 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. vii. p. 364 ; id. Etic. Meth. 



p. 565 ; Less. Lnd. Gen. Troch. pi. xli ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 146. 

 Ornismya omata, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-MoucJies, pp. xl, 139, pi. 41 ; 



id. Hist. Nat. Troch. p. 77, pi. 24; id. Traite d'Orn. p. 285. 

 Lophomis auratus, Bj). Consp. Av. i. p. 83 ; Des Murs in Cast. Voy. 



i.p. 41. 

 Lophornis ornatus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. JEnum. 



p. 9, pi. 811. ff. 4889-91 ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257 ; Gould, 



Men. Troch. iii. pi. 117 (Sept. 1855) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 82; Cab. 



^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 62 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 295 ; E. C. 



Taylor, Ibis, 1863, p. 91 ; Muls. Si' Verr. Class. Troch. p. 76 ; 



Mvls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 215, iv. p. 219 ; id. Ann. 



