Genera of Humming Birds. 287 



403. HelioDOXA HRXRICI, Lawr. Ann., Xat. Hist., 1866, 



p. 402. 



Heliodoxa berlepscJii, Boucard, H. Bird, 1892, vol. ii., p. 75. 



Costa-Rica Brilliant. 



r Heliodoxe de Costa Rica. 



Habitat. — Costa Rica, Veragua. 



yl/(T/^.— Crown of the head, throat, and breast glittering 

 metallic green with golden reflections. Upperside dark green 

 passing to shining-green on rump, and golden-green on 

 uppertail-coverts. Median rectrices steel-blue, margined with 

 greenish-bronze, laterals steel-blue. Centre of throat spotted 

 with metallic blue. Abdomen, flanks and undertail-coverts, 

 golden-green. Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 3. Tail, 2\. Culmen, ^. 



Female. — Underside shining-green with a golden tinge on 

 the head and neck. Median rectrices bronze-green passing 

 to bluish-black at tips. Laterals bluish-black tipped with 

 white. Underside white, each feather tipped with golden- 

 green. Wings dark brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2|. Tail, 2. Culmen, |. 



Young Afale.— Upper and underside golden-green with 

 sides of throat rufous. 



This species is closelv allied to H. Jamesoni, but it is much 

 more bright on flanks, the crown is fully metallic, the bill is 

 shorter, and the female has not the rufous abdomen of H. 

 Jamesoni. 



I collected my specimens at Naranjo, and on the Volcano 

 of Irazu, Costa Rica, in 1877, but I have also some specimens 

 collected by Arce, in Veragua. 



My friend, Count Berlepsch, to whom I communicated my 

 typical specimens of H . berlepschi, informed me that it was 

 identical \^ ith H. hejirici, Lawr. 



Genus CXV. Lampraster, Tacz., P.Z.S., 1874, p. 140. 



Type : L. branicki, Taczanowski. 



Bill longer than the head, straight. Tail as long as the 

 body, greatly forked. Undertail coverts exceed half the length 

 of the rectrices. Tarsi covered with feathers to the toes. 



Habitat. — Peru. 



