124. LOPHOEXIS, 421 



Soc. Linn. Zj/oh, xxii. p. 223 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 134; Salv. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 363 ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 433. 

 Mellisuga ornata, Leot. Ois. Trin. p. 148 (1866). 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green ; a transverse 

 band across the rump bufFy white ; upper tail-coverts purple- 

 bronze ; crest elongated, dark cinnamon ; forehead, lores, and 

 throat glittering green, the latter bordered with cinnamon ; lateral 

 cervical feathers much elongated, graduated, cinnamon, each 

 tipped with a round glittering-green spot ; abdomen grey ; the 

 breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts shining green, each feather 

 of the latter with a pale cinnamon edge ; tail cinnamon, the 

 central rectrices widely, the rest more narrowly edged with golden 

 green on the outer web ; bill flesh-colour, the tip black. Total 

 length about 2-8 inches, wing 1-6, tail 0*95, biU 0-5. 



Female. Upper surface shining golden green, rather darker on the 

 crown ; rump and upper tail-coverts like tliose of the male ; throat 

 and under tail-coverts cinnamon ; breast greyish white ; abdomen 

 shining green, the middle grey ; central rectrices shining green, 

 tipped with cinnamon, and with a subterminal purple-black band ; 

 remainder cinnamon, greenish on the middle, and with a dark 

 subterminal band. 



Young birds in first complete plumage have a whitish throat, 

 each feather bearing a dusky discal spot. In the females these are 

 followed by cinnamon feathers. 



Hah. Trinidad, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



a-d. S ad. ; e. 5 (Trinidad skins.) Salvin-Godman & 



ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



/. (3" ad.; ^. 5 Carimang R., Brit. Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll, 



&A.;h,i.2 Feb., July to Oct. {H. 



juv. sk. Jlliitely). 



j. S ad. ;^. 2 Eorainia, Feb., July (^. W.). Salvin-Godman. ColL 



juv. sk. 



I. 2 juv. sk. (Cayenne skin.) Gould Coll. 



m. S 5id. sk. " Amazon Valley." GoiUd Coll. 



n. (S ^d. st. Purchased. 



2. Lophornis gouldi. 



Ornismya goiildi, Less. Hist. Nat. Troch. p. 103, pi. 36. 

 Trochilus gouldi. Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xli. 

 Lophornis reginte, Schreibers, Collect. Faun. Bras. pi. 1. 

 Lophornis gouldi, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 83 ; id. Ltev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 257; Gould, Mon. Troch. iii. pi. 118 (Sept. 1855); id. Lntr. 



Troch. p. 83; 3hils. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 76; Salv. ^ Elliot, 



Ibis, 1873, p. 278 ; Mzds. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 218; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 223; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 134. 

 Bellatrix gouldi, Reich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 12 ; id. Troch. Ennm. p. 9, 



pi. 813. f. 41)01. 

 Bellatrix regiiiaj, Reich. Troch. Enuni. p. 9, pi. 813. ff. 4899-900. 



Adult nude. Similar to that of L. ornatus, but with the elongated 

 lateral cervical feathers white instead of cinnamon, but tipped in 



