1918. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 309 



Genus LOPHORNIS Lesson. 



Lophornis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 1829, p. 37 (Type Trochilus ornaius 



Boddaert). 

 Polemislria Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, IH, i860, p. 63 (Type Trochilus 



verreauxi Bourcier).* 



*Lophornis ornatus (Boddaert). Tufted Coquette. 



Trochilus ornatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1873, p. 39 (Cayenne). 



Lophornis ornatus Gould, Mon. Trochil., IH, 1855, p. 117; Salvin, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 420; Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 217; Ber- 

 LEPSCH and Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 88; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., 

 XIII, 1906, p. 36; Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 268; Chubb, Bds. 

 Brit. Guiana, I, 19 16, p. 425. 



Range: Guiana, Venezuela and Trinidad. 

 3: Guiana i: Locality? 2. 



Lophornis gouldi {Lesson). Gould's Coquette. 



Ornismya gouldi Lesson, Hist. Nat. Trochil., 1832, p. 36 (Para).'' 



Bellatrix reginae Reichenbach, Trochil. Enum., 1855, p. 9, pi. 813, Figs. 4899- 

 4900. 



Trochilus reginae Schreiber, Isis, 1833, p. 534 (Matto Grosso). 



Lophornis gouldi Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1855, pi. 118; Elliot, Syn. Trochil., 

 1879, p. 134; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 421; Hellmayr, 

 Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, p. 379, crit. (Para, Matto Grosso); Snethlage, 

 Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 204 (Providencia; Rio Grande; Rio Tocantins 

 etc., Brazil). 



Range: Central and northeastern Brazil. 



*Lophornis magnificus ( Vieillot). Frilled Coquette. 



Trochilus magnificus (nom. nud.) Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. dor, I, 1802, 



pi. 8. 

 Trochilus magnificus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIII, 1818, p. 428 



(Soumidorio, near Paraiba R., Prov. Rio de Janeiro). 

 Colibris helios Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 81, pi. 82, Fig. 2. 

 Ornismya strumaria Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 1829, pp. XL, 143, pis. 



42, 43- 

 Lophronis magnificus Gould, Mon. Trochil., Ill, 1855, pi. 119; Elliot, Syn. 

 Trochil., 1879, p. 135; Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 422; 

 Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1900, p. 218; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 

 p. 78, crit. (Faz. Esperanca, Rio Uruhu, Goyaz); Id., Verb, de Omith. Gesell. 

 Bayern, XII, 1915, p. 153 (Rio de Janeiro; Goyaz; Matto Grosso; Bahia; 

 Rio Grande do Sol). 



» Proposed for the plain-throated group verreauxi chalybeus, etc., having an 

 emarginate tail and somewhat more extensively feathered maxilla (at base). Ridg- 

 way considers it worthy of recognition (c/. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, 

 p. 310). 



•> Designated by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 147, No. 1433. 



