CEPHALOLEPIS. 



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black. Tail purplish-black. Bill and feet black. Total length, 3 in. AVing, '2 in. 

 Tail, 1| in. Bill along the gape, g in. 



Female. Upper surface bronzy-green. Wings purplish-brown. Under surfoce 

 smoky-gray. Median rectrices bronzy-green; lateral feathers purplish-brown, outer- 

 most ones tipped with gray. Bill and feet black. 



2. Bellona exilis. 



Trochilus exilis, Gmel., Syst. Nat., vol. i, p. 484 (1788).— Lath., Iml. Ornitb., vol. i, p, 310 (1790). 



Trochilus cristatellus. Lath., lud. Ornith. Biipp., p. xxxix (1790). 



Mellisuga exih's, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 113, sp. 98. 



Orlhorht/nckus Morolophus, Bon., Gonsp. Gen. Av., vol. i, p. 83 (18.50). 



Orthorhytichus exilis, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., p. 11 (IS.iS). — Id,, Troch. Enuni., p. 9 (185:")). — Bon., Rev. and 



Mag. Zool. (1854), p. 256, — Gould, Men. Troch., vol, iv, pi. 207. — Id., lutr. Troch., octavo ed., p. 117 



(1861),— Ei.uoT, Ibis (1872), p. 35.5. 

 Bellona exilis, Mcls., Hist. Nat, Ois, Mouch,, torn, iii, p, 196 (1876). 



Hah. Islands of Dominica, Nevis, St. Thomas, and St. Croix. 



Male. Forehead and crown golden-green, blending into grass-green at the tip 

 of tlie crest. Upper parts bronze-green. Throat smoke brown ; luider parts pur- 

 plish-black, glossed with green on the flanks. Wings purple-brown. Middle rec- 

 trices dark bronze-green, rest dark purple. Bill and feet black. Total length, 3| 

 in. Wing, 2 in. Tail, lj| in. Bill along gape, ^ in. 



Female, exactly like the female of 0. cri-sfatits. 



Although Gmelin's diagnosis of ^'•crista hasi viridi, apice aurea,'' is exactly trans- 

 posed, for the base of the crest is golden and the dp <jreeu, I deem it most probable 

 he intended to describe this species and therefore leave it under his name, by which 

 it has been so long known. 



Genus XCIL— CErHALOLEPIS. 



Cephallepis {lege Cephalolepis). Lodd., P. Z. S. (1830), p, 12, 

 Smaragdites, Reich, (nee Boie,, 1831), Syst. Av. Nat,, pi, 40 (1849). 

 Cephalolepis. Cab. and Hein,, Mus, Hein, Th„ iii. p. 61 (1860). 

 Orthorhyn chus, Burm, (nee Lacep., 1799), Th. Bras, (1856). 



Type. 

 T. delulandi 

 T. dclalandi 

 T. dclalandi 

 T. dclalandi 



Vieill. 



Vicill. 



; Vieill. 



Vieill. 



FiR. 100, 



Cli. Bill straight, a little shorter than the 

 head. Nostrils hidden. Head covered with 

 a long rather loose crest, terminating in one, 

 sometimes two, narrow feathers extending far 

 beyond the rest. Wings long. Tail slightly 

 rounded. Tarsi bare. Sexes unlike. 



RaiKjc. Brazil. 



I recognize but two species in this genus ; which are remarkable for the single 

 lengthened plume rising from the crest. Sometimes there are two of these, and I 

 have one specimen possessing three. Tbey are gracefully formed birds, with a 

 pleasing plumage, though not highly luminous. 



Cti'halottpi* (leliil'miH. i3* . Brazil. Sliarjje. 



