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Museum agree quite accurately, and the species should 

 henceforth be known as 



Lampornis viridigula (Gmelin). 



Trochilus violicauda. 



This name was given to the second figure on pi. 671, and 

 here again a satisfactory result has been arrived at through 

 Mr. Chubb 's assistance. We have determined it as the bird 

 later described by Vieillot (Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. VII., 

 p. 349, 1817) as Trochilus nigricollis. This identification 

 seems a good one though novel, as Berlepsch recently quoted 

 it as a doubtful synonym of the preceding species, a result 

 arrived at by Vieillot almost a hundred years previously, 

 when he wrote (N.D., VII., p. 354) : — 



" Le Colibri a Queue violette, Trochilus nitidus Lath. ; 

 Troch. albus, Gm., pi. 11, des Oiseaux dores, est un jeune 

 colibri hausse-col vert (gramineus Gm.), qui commence a 

 prendre les couleurs de Fadulte." 



It is interesting to note that the vernacular used in 

 Brabourne and Chubb's List now agrees with the scientific name. 

 The names nitidus Latham and albus Gmel. are absolute 

 synonyms of violicauda Boddaert being given to the same 

 figure. 



We then conclude that for the species appearing in 

 Brabourne and Chubb's List, p. 123, as L. nigricollis 

 (Vieillot), the correct name is 



Lampornis violicauda (Boddaert). 



Trochilus amethystinus. 



Though Boddaert, on p. 41, proposed this name for pi. 672, 

 f. 1, he has not yet received credit for it, the name being 

 accredited to Gmelin in every Monograph, and even in 

 Brabourne and Chubb's List, p. 145. The correct name is, 

 however, 



Calliphlox amethystina (Boddaert), 



which is fifteen years earlier and which is exactly equal to 

 Gmelin' s name. 



