3o6 Genera of Humming Birds. 



DORYFERA, Gould, P.Z.S., 1847, p. 95, (name previously 

 ■employed in Entomology by llliger). 



DORIFERA, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1849, vol. i., p. 68. 

 DORYPHORA, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii., p. 77. 

 Type : T. ludoviciae, Bourcier and Mulsant. 



Bill very long, straight, slender and sharpely pointed. 

 Wings long, • reaching the end of tail, outer web of first 

 primary nearly obsolete. Tail rounded. Rectrices broad, 

 outermost shortest, laterals and medians slightly and gradually 

 longer. 



Habitat. — Veragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and 

 Bolivia. 



421. Hemistephania ludoviciae, Bourc. and Muls., Ann. 

 Soc. Agr. Lyon., 1847, p. 136. 



MelHsuga ludoviciae, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 112. 



Dorifera ludoviciae, Bon., Consp., Gen. Av., vol. i., p. 68. 



Doryfera ludovicia, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 88. 



Dorypliora ludoviciae, Cab. and Hein., Mus. Hein., i860, 

 t. iii., p. 6g. 



Doryfera rectirostris, Gould, Int. Troch., 1861, p. 71. 



Green-fronted Lance-bill , Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 88, 



Ecuadorean Lance-bill , Gould, Mon. Troch. Suppl., 1886, 

 p. 28. 



le Dory fere de Lojiise, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 t. i., p. 201. 



Habitat. — Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. 



Male. — Forehead metallic grass-green or golden-green. 

 Crown and nape coppery-bronze. Back dark shining green, 

 passing into bluish-silvery-green on uppertail-coverts. Tail 

 dark bronze at base, passing to black, and tipped with gray. 

 Underside brownish-green, the base of each feather dark gray. 

 Undertail-coverts bluish-green, broadly margined with gray. 

 Wings purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 2|. Tail, \\. Culmen, 1%. 



Female. — Exactly like the male. Possibly it may be the 

 specimens with golden forehead which are the females. 

 There is scarcely any blue tinge on the undertail-coverts. 



