66 On three remarkable Birds from South America. 



prepared for millinery purposes. There were some fifty 

 Rhamphocelus brasilius, a number of Galbula rufoviridis, 

 Pipra eri/ihrocephala, &cc., and a few Humming-birds, such 

 as Lampornis nigrirollis, Petasophora serrirosiris, Agyrtria 

 leucogastra, and a splendid specimen of Chrysolampis chloro- 

 Icemus. The skin of this bird is quite of the same make as 

 that of the others : viz., high breast, flat throat, tail- 

 feathers spread out like a fan, and a slip of paper round 

 the body. 



The young man who sent the birds from Bahia afterwards 

 returned to Germany, and I spoke with him. He told me 

 that he got all the skins from a dealer at Bahia, who used 

 to prepare skins for millinery purposes. Consequently there 

 cannot be the slightest doubt that Chrysolampis chlorolamus 

 is really an inhabitant of the province of Bahia in Brazil. 



My specimen, which is evidently an old male in perfect 

 plumage, measures : al. 60^, caud. 36, culm. 18J mm. 



I think that the correct name for this species is Chryso- 

 lampis chlorohemus (Elliot). 



Regarding the generic name, I may remark that the silvery- 

 greenish glittering head and neck, and the rufous middle 

 tail-feathers, as well as the produced feathering from the 

 front along the base of the upper mandible, are characters 

 which associate it with Chrysolampis, while the longer bill 

 and the serrated maxilla (as Salvin remarks) speak rather 

 for Lampornis. It is in fact somewhat intermediate between 

 Chrysolampis and Lampornis, but to my mind the characters 

 of Chrysolampis prevail in it against those of Lampornis. 



About the specific name, I think there can be no doubt 

 that chlorokemus of Mr, Elliot is the oldest. The name 

 calosoma, proposed by Mr. Elliot two years later, must 

 become a synonym. It is true that there was already an 

 Eulampis chlorolcBmus, Gld., which by Cabanis and Heine 

 was placed with Lampornis, but this fact does not justify us 

 in withdrawing the specific name of chlorolcemus from our 

 bird. Even if placed again in the genus Lampornis, this 

 species ought to stand as Lampornis chlorolcema (Elliot). 



So far as I know, the original specimen in the American 



