32 Genera of Htimming Birds. 



Bill short and straight. Head crested. Throat metallic, 

 with elongated ornamental feathers on the sides, more or less 

 lengthened, and projecting outwards. Tail rounded. Females 

 dull. 



Habitat. — Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, Guiana, 

 Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 



45. LoPHORNis ORNATUS, Bodd. Plan, enlum. d'Aub., 1783, pi. 



640, fig. 3. 



Ornismya ornata, Less. Ois. Mouch. 1829, p. 139. 



Mellisuga ornata, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 13. 



Lophornis auratua, Bon. Consp. Gen. Avi., 1850, vol. i., p. 83. 



Lophornis ornata, Reich. Aufz der Colib. 1883, p. 12. 



Tufted Coquette, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 117. 



Le Lophornis Huppe-Col. Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois., m. 187fi, t. 

 iii., p. 216. 



Habitat. —Trinidad, Venezuela, Guiana. 



Male. — Head and crest shining dark chestnut. Forehead and 

 throat metallic green. Upperside golden-green. Rump and 

 uppertail-coverts bronzy-brown, a white band across the rump, 

 sometimes this band is slightly buff. On each side of throat a 

 series of lengthened graduated feathers, pale buff, each feather 

 tipped with metallic green. Underside bronzy-green with a 

 narrow rufous tinge under the throat. Undertail-coverts 

 greenish-buff. Tail brownish-chestnut externally margined and 

 tipped with bronzy-green. Bill flesh color, black at tips. 



Total length, 2f in. Wing, If. Tail, 1. Culmen, |. 



Female. — Upper and underside bronzy-green. Front throat 

 and upper part of breast buff. Across the rump a band of 

 buffy white. Tail buff with a broad subterminal blackish band 

 with golden-green reflections. Wings purplish-black. 



46. Lophornis gouldi. Lesson, Trochil., 1831-33, p. 103. 



Bellatrix gouldi, Reich. Aufz der Col., 1853,. p. 12. 



Gould's Coquette, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iii., p. 118. 



Le Lophornis de Gould, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois., m. vol. iii., 

 p. 219. 



Habitat. — Para. (Brazil.) 



Male. — Crest chestnut-red. Upperside bronzy-green. Rump 

 reddish-brown crossed by a band of white. Forehead, throat 

 and breast metallic green, with golden reflections. On the other 



