124. LOPHORNIS. 427 



lu. Lophomis verreauxi. 



Trochilus verreauxi, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 193 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



n. i. p. 147. _ 



Lopliornis verreauxi, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 12; id. Tmch. Etmm. 



p. U, pi. 812. f. 489G; Gould, Man. Troch. iii. pi. 125 (Sept. 1860) ; 



Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 136; Tacz. Orn. Per. i. p. 300; Berl. J.f. 



Or,,. 1887, p. 329. 

 Bellatrix verreauxi, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 257. 

 Polemistria verreauxi, Cah. Sj- Heine, At us. Hein. iii. p. 63 ; Gould, 



Iiitr. Troch. p. 85 ; Muls. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. p. 76 ; Scl. Sr Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 753, 979, 1873, p. 288 ; AIuls. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 



Mouches, iii. p. 221, pi. 93. 

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



Achdt male. Similar to that of L. chah/b(nis as regards the color- 

 ation of the upper surface, forehead, and the elongated lateral gular 

 feathers : the middle of the throat is darker, washed with green ; 

 the breast and middle of the abdomen black, and there is a short 

 occipital crest. 



Female resembles that sex of the allied species, but the whole of 

 the under surface is much blacker. 



Hab. Upper Amazons Valley to the Andes of Colombia. 



a-c. d'ad. ; d. $ Colombia (Bogota make). Salvin-Godman & 



ad. ; e. $ juv. Gould Colls. 



sk. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



y. Juv. sk. Peruvian Amazons. E. Bartlett [P.]. 



h. c? ad. ; i. $ Iquitos, Amazons, May (H. Gould Coll. 



ad. sk. Whitely). 



j, k. (S ad. ; I. Pebas, Amazons, Feb., June, Salvin-Godman & 



(S ]ny.; in-p. July {J. Hau:cwell). Gould Colls. 



5 ad. sk. 



11. Lophomis pavoninus. 



Lophornis pavoninus, Salt: 4" Godm. Ibis, 1882, p. 81 ; Whitely, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 357; Sharpe in Gould's Mon. Troch., Suppl. pi. 36 

 (Mar. 1887). 



Polemistria pavonina, Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 433 ; d'Hamonv. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. Fr. xi. p. 317 (1886). 



Adult male. Upper surface shining green, band across the rump 

 narrow, huffy white ; upper tail-coverts purjile-bronze ; crown 

 glittering green, with a central line black ; throat black, lateral 

 feathers elongated, broad, shining green, each with a round discal 

 black spot near the end, the uppermost of these feathers are chestnut 

 towards the base, with a subbasal quadrate white spot ; breast and 

 abdomen green, the feathers of the flanks edged with black ; lower 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts greenish black ; tail shiuiug bronzy 

 green ; biU black. Total length about 3-5 inches, wing 1-8, tail 1-2, 

 bill 0-6. 



Female. Crown dark shining green, the feathers edged with black ; 

 throat bufl'y white, each feather edged laterally with black ; middle 

 of the abdomen greyish ; flanks washed with green ; central rcctrices 



