210 GENEBA AND SPECIES. 



tail-coverts, deep grey ; breast and abdomen 

 black. Locality : Eio Grande. Mr. Loddiges 

 stated that both species (T. Lalandei and Lod- 

 digesii) belonged to a genus which he had dis- 

 tinguished among the Trochilidce by the name 

 of CEPHALEPIS, and promised to bring before 

 the Committee at an early meeting the results 

 of his researches on the Trochilidce. generally." 



Trochilus Lalandii, et versicolor, Vieillot. De 

 Lalande's Humming-bird. The male of this 

 lovely species is described and figured in the 

 Naturalist's Libr. Ornith. vol. i. p. 101, pi. 10 ; 

 and the female, which is crestless, as is generally 

 if not always the case among these male-crested 

 species, in vol. ii. p. 59, pi. 7. 



Locality : Brazil, Eio Grande. 



Trochilus Loddigesii, Gould. Loddiges' Hum- 

 ming-bird. This beautiful bird (male) is de- 

 scribed and figured in the Naturalist's Lib. 

 Ornith. vol. ii. p. 5, pi. 6. 



Locality: Brazil. 



Genus LOPHOBNIS, Lesson, (Bellatrix Boie, 

 Selasphorus, in part, Swainson ; Colibri, in part, 

 Spix ; Mellisuga, in part, Gray). 



The birds of this genus are apparelled most 

 splendidly, and yet the whole of their brilliant 

 attire is so arranged, that all parts are in chaste 

 keeping with each other. 



Lesson called the birds of this section Les 

 Coquets, that is, courters of admiration: he 

 might have called them Kinglets, and with justice 



