LAMPOKNIS. 



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W'itli stccl-bluo i-fflertions, lateral ours violet, margined and tipped with steel-blue. 

 Bill black. Total length, 41 in. AVing, 2f in. Tail, If in. Culmen, 1 ,'y in. 



Female differs in having the throat white, with tlie central portion black. 

 Median tail feathers bronzy-green Avith black tips, lateral ones clicstniit with a 

 purple gloss, and a subtcrminal bluish-black bar and wliito tips. 



T\\c young male has the sides of the throat and abdomen chestnut ; centre of 

 throat shining green bordered witli white ; and the centre of abdonieu black 

 bordered with white. Tail similar to that of the female. 



7. Lampomis calosoma. 



Chrysolampis chtorohrimii^, Er.i.ioT, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist., 4tli scr., vol. vi, p. 34ri (1870). 

 Lampomis calosovia, Elliot, Ibis (1872), p. 351. — Mll.s., Hist. Nat. Ois. Moiicli., torn. i. ]>. 177. 



B(b. •? 



Mtle. Top of head and neck pale metallic silvery-green, in some lights purplish ; 

 a black band across the back, rest of upper parts dark green; tail hery copper color, 

 feathers margined with blackish-purple ; throat brilliant emerald-green ; under parts 

 purplish-black; spot of wliite on the flanks; under tail coverts cliestnut. Bill 

 black. Total length, 4 in. Wing, 2j in. Tail, 1^ in. Culmen, | in. Descri[)- 

 tion taken from the unique type in my collection. 



Female. Unknown. 



8. Lampomis dominicus. 



Troclulus dominicun, Linn., Syst. Xat. (17CC), p, 191, J. — Gmel., Syst. Nat. (1788), vol. i, p. 489.— Lath., 



Ind. Orn., t. i, p. 309. 

 Trochihis margarilaceus, Gmei,., Syst. Nat., p. 490 (178S), J. 



Trochilus aurtdenlun, Vieill., Ois. Dor. (1802), pi. sii.— Shaw., Ccn. Zool., t. viii (1811). p. 30G. 

 Polytmus margariiaceus, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 108, sp. 13 (1844-49). 

 Lampomis margaritacciis, Bon., Oonsp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 72, sp. 5 (ISiiO). 



Margarochrysis aurulcnta, Reich.. Aufz. dor Colib., p. 11 (18.53).— Id., Troch. Enum., t. 784, figs. 4822-23 (lS,i,i). 

 Hypophania dominica, Reich., AuTz. der Colib.. p. 11.— Id., Troch Enum., p. 9, t. 795, fig.s. 4845-G. 

 Lampomis auridentus, Goild, Mon. Troch., vol. ii. pi. 79. — Id., lutr. Troch., octavo cd., p. C6. — Mi;i..s., Hist. 



Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 152. 

 Lampomis virginalis, Goold, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 80. — Id., Intr. Troch., octavo ed., p. Tif). 

 Eulampis aiiridentis, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 250.— Bo.v., Consp. Av., vol. i, p. 71. 

 Lampomis dominicus, Elliot, Ibis (1872), p. 349. 



Hal). St. Thomas, St. Domingo, Porto E-ico. 



Male. Upper surface dark yellowish-green. Throat metallic golden-green. Under 

 surface black, with green flanks, and a spot of white on each. Under tail coverts 

 dark pui-j)lc. "N^'ings purplish-brown. Median rectrices dark bronzy-grccni, lateral 

 ones purple-violet bordered with steel-blue. Bill black. Total length, 5 in. "SVing, 

 2§ in. Tail, 2 in. Culmen, | in. 



Female differs in having all the under surface gray, and the lateral tail feathers 

 purple-chestnut with a sid)terminal black bar and white tips. 



6 August, 1878. 



