LA MPORNIS. 



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buff. Tail steel-blue with green reflections. Bill and feet black. Total length, 

 4| in. Wing 2| iii. Tail, 2 in. Culmen, | in. 



Female. Upper parts light brown with a greenish lustre. Upper tail coverts 

 shining green. Throat white, unspotted. Under parts brownisli-white tinged with 

 buff. Under tail coverts bufty-brown. Tail shining green, all the lateral feathers ' 

 tipped with white. 



6. Oreotrochilus adelae. 



Trochilus adela, D'Orb and LaFres , Syn. Av. (1838), no. 32, p. 33. 



Orlhorhijnchus adela, D'Orb, Voy. Anier. Merid. All., pi. Gl, fig. 2, p. 377, vol. iv. 



Oreotrochilus adelw, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 73. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 64. — Gray, Gen. 



Birds, vol. i, p. 104, sp. 4.— Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 76. — Reioh., Aufz. der Colib., p. 15. — Id. 



Troch. Enum., p. 1 2.— Elliot, Ibis (1877), p. 142. 

 Orotrochilus adelce, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein. Th., iil, p. 15 (note 4). — Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn. 



ii, p. 174. 



Hab. Bolivia 



MaJe. Upper surface olive-brown. Throat metallic grass-green. Under parts 

 deep chestnut, with a central line of black. Under tail coverts olive-brown edged 

 witli buff. Tail cuneate shape ; median feathers dark brown, remainder pale buff 

 margined with olive-brown ; outer webs almost wholly of this color. Shafts white. 

 Bill and feet black. Total length, 5| in. Wing, 2| in. Tail 21 in. Culmen. 1 in. 



Female diff"ers by having the throat white, spotted with olive-brown ; under parts 

 wholly rufous ; and the lateral tail feathers buff" Avith a subterminal black bar, and 

 tipped with white on the inner web. 



Genus XVI.— LAMPORNIS. 



Lampornts , Swains., Zool. Journ., vol. iii (1827), p. 358. 

 Anthracothorax, Boie, Isis (1831), p. 546. 

 Smaragdites, Boie, Tsis (1831), p. 547. 

 Fl or est a, Eeich., Aufz. dcr Colib. (1853), p. 11. 

 Hypophania , Reich., Aufz. dcr Colib. (1853), p. 11. 

 Margarochrysis, Reich., Aufz. dcr Colib. (1853), p. 11. 

 Endoxa, Hein., Jonrn. fur Ornitli. (1868), p. 179. 



Ch. Bill longer than the head, curved ; 

 wings long as median rectrices. Tail 

 slightly forked. Feet moderate, tarsi 

 bare. Sexes unlike in plumage. 



Range. Mexico, Central America, 

 "West India Islands of Hayti, Porto 

 Rico, Jamaica, and St. Thomas. Vene- 

 zuela, Guiana, Brazil, and Columbia. 



Eight species are known. 



The genus Lampornis, Swainson (1. 

 c), had for types the T. mango., Linn., 

 T.pella, Linn., and tlie T. niger, Swain., 



Type. 



T. mango. Linn. 

 T. violicauda, Bodd. 

 T. dominicux, Linu. 

 T. porphyrurus. Shaw. 

 T. dominicus, Linn. 

 T. dominicus, Linn. 

 T. mango, Linn. 



Vis- 16. 



Lumiiornis vioHcauda. S . Caraccas. Sallo. 



