ATTHIS. 



11:3 



IJah. Guiana, Vpiiezuela. 



Male. Entire upper parts dark shining grass-green. Behind tlic eye a small 

 white spot. Throat metallic amethystine-red, rather dull, beneath whieh is a band 

 of grayish-white extending up the sides of the neck ; rest of under parts gray 

 tinged with green, liglitest in the centre of abdomen. Median rectrices bronze- 

 green, lateral ones green at base, rest black, with a faint indication of white at the 

 tip. Wings purplisli-bro\vn. Bill black. Total length, 2g in. Wing, Ig in. Tail, 

 I in. Culmen, § in. (Type in my collection.) 



Young male. Above golden green. Throat white spotted witli metallic-red, and 

 bounded beneath with a band of green, followed by another of white. Under parts 

 deep buff, washed with green on lower part of breast. Middle rectrices bronze- green, 

 lateral ones green at base, rest black tipped with white. (T)pe in my collection.) 



Female. Above dark green. Ear coverts, checks, and a line around lower part 

 of the throat blackish-brown. Throat white spotted with brown. A band of white 

 across the breast, beneath which is another of dark brown, llest of under parts 

 rufous. Central rectrices bronze-green, lateral ones bronze-green with an apical 

 black band. Under tail coverts pale bronze-green, margined v/ith gray. Wings 

 purple. Bill and feet black. Dimensions as in the male. 



Genus UVI.— ATTHIS. 



Type. 

 0. heloisae, Less, and I'elaU. 



FiR. G3. 



At this, Rkichenb., Aufz. der Colib. (1803), p. 12 



Ch. Bill about as long as the 

 head, straight, rather flat on cul- 

 men. Wings nearly as long as 

 the tail, which is much rounded 

 and short. Feathers on the side 

 of the throat much elongated. 



Range. Mexico and Guatemala. 



Two species only are known, 

 closely allied in structure to the preceding one, but very different in tlie coloring 

 of their plumage. 



Key to the species. 



A. Gorget elongated ; metallic purplish-red or reddish-violet. 



a. First primary of male very narrow, end abruptly attenuated. 1. A. heloisgs, TiCss. and Del. 



b. First primary of male uniform, end not attenuated. 2. A. ellioti, Ridg. 



2i6l6. 

 Atlhis lieloUdc. ? . Jalajia. Dr. Heermann. 



1. Atthis heloisae. 



Orn/'smya hdotsce. Less, and Df.latt., Rev. Zool. (1839), p. 15. 

 Mdlismjn, hdoiscE, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i. p. 113, sp. 62. 

 Tnji>hocna heloi'sce, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 257. 

 Sclasphorufi hdoisa'. Goui.D, Mon. Trocli., vol. iii, pi. 141. 



Atthis hdoisa;, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 12 (1853).— Id., Trocli. Eniim., p. 10 (1855).— Gould, Intr. Troch. 

 octavo ed.. p. 89 (ISCl).— Ml-ls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn. iv. p. 01 (1877). 

 15 September, 1878. 



