Descriptions of New Species of Trochilidw. 483 



XLYII. — Descriptions ofJfew Species of Trochilidce. 



By George X. Lawrence. 



Eead 27th May, 1867. 



Doricha foryantae. 



Male. Entire upper plumage of a rather dull grass green ; tail 

 brownish black, tinged with purple, the feathers, except the cen- 

 tral ones, having their inner webs broadly margined with dull pale 

 rufous; chin and throat bright crimson, below which is a broad 

 belt of grayish white ; breast and sides dull green, intermixed with 

 ashy, lower part of abdomen bright rufous, thighs brown, cris- 

 sum light rufous, the feathers with dull green centres ; wings dark 

 brownish purple ; bill black ; " iris dark brown ; " feet dark brown. 



Length (fresh) 4 in.; wing l\± ; tail H; bill f^. 



Habitat. — Costa Rica. 



Collected by Julian Carmiol, Feb. 27, 1S67. 



Specimens in Mas. Smith. Institution. 



Remarks. — Of this beautiful genus, three other species only 

 were previously known, found severally in the Bahamas, East- 

 ern Mexico, and Guatemala. The one now described, is 

 most like D. evelynoe, from the Bahamas, in the form of its 

 bill and tail-feathers, but the former is rather longer and the 

 latter much narrower in the new species ; it differs in the 

 duller and darker green of the upper plumage, in the throat 

 being uniform in color, riot changeable, and with no approach 

 to violet or purple ; there is less rufous below, and the mar- 

 gins of the tail feathers are pale, and occupy half the web, 

 wdiile in evelynm the entire inner webs of the tail feathers are 

 bright cinnamon. 



In elizce, from Mexico, the color of the throat changes to 

 bluish violet, and is more brilliant, with the plumage above 



