54 Mr. D. G. Elliot on the Trocliilidse. 



washed with rufous ; feathers in front of the eye fulvescent ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts dark brown^ narrowly streaked with 

 whitish ; throat white, the chin unspotted, but the rest of the 

 throat broadly streaked with dark brown, these streaks be- 

 coming plainer on the breast, which, like the sides of the 

 neck, is more ashy grey than the rest of the back ; flanks 

 brown, as also the thighs and under tail-coverts ; centre of 

 abdomen white ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, mottled with 

 dark brown markings. Total length 5*8 inches, culmen -55, 

 wing 2'45, tail 3"6, tarsus 'SS. 



A second specimen is more dingy underneath, and is not 

 so clearly marked as the one described. It seems to me to 

 differ from all the other African Bradypteri, of which the 

 Museum has a large series, by its black bill and distinctly 

 striped throat and breast. 



YII. — Notes on the TrochilidBe. The Genus Larapropygia. 

 By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. 



The genus Lampropygia contains only a few species ; but they 

 are large handsome birds, possessing a considerable amount 

 of metallic colouring. They are closely allied on the one 

 hand to the members of the genus Bourcieria, and on the 

 other to those composing the genus Aglaactis ; indeed I 

 am not altogether satisfied of the necessity of separating them 

 from the first-named genus, and think perhaps it may be 

 better, in some future arrangement of the family, to retain the 

 species treated of in this paper in the genus Bourcieria. The 

 birds usually restricted to the genus Lamjn'opygia are met 

 with from Venezuela down the Mcstern coast of South Ame- 

 rica to Bolivia, no species having been found inhabiting 

 Eastern South America or any portion of Central America. 

 Venezuela contains L. coeUgena, described by Lesson, and 

 erroneously attributed by him to Mexico ; Columbia has three 

 species, L. columbiana (characterized in this paper), L. pru- 

 nelli, and L. wilsoni, the last being also an inhabitant of 

 Ecuador ; while Bolivia, as yet, has only given us L. holiviana, 



