EULAMPIS CHLOROL^MUS, Gould. 



Grass-greeii-breasted Carib. 



Eiilampis chlorolcemiis, Gould, MSS. 1851. 



Sericotes chlorolaimns, Reichenb. Aiifz. der Colibris, p. 11. 



Eulampis chlorolmnus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag, de Zool. 1854, p. 250, 



Some Trochilidists might be inclined to doubt the specific value of this Caribbean Humming-bird, and to 

 regard it as a mere variety of the Eulampis holosericeus^ but had they as mauy specimens as I have to examine 

 and form an opinion from, I believe they would come to the same conclusion as myself, and consider it to be 

 distinct. The principal difference between the E. chlorolcemus and E. holosenceus consists in the former 

 having a deeper and less luminous green throat, and tbe blue patch on tbe breast dilated into a band of blue 

 extending across the chest ; the former is also a larger and stouter bird than the latter. These differences 

 are much more apparent in the mounted specimens in my collection, where at least six of each kind are 

 placed side by side in one of the cases. 



Like the E, holosericeus, the present bird is an inhabitant of the Caribbean Islands, but of which, and how 

 many of them, no certain information has been received, further than that a specimen, now in the British 

 Museum, was collected in the island of Nevis, byT. J. Cottle, Esq., who informs me that it inhabits the low 

 grounds of the island, and that it builds a round compact nest, and lays the usual two white eggs. 



I have not failed to remark, while mounting my specimens of the genus, that their skins are particularly 

 thick and strong, even approaching the toughness and substance of leather in the E.jugulark, 



Head, all the upper surface and wing-coverts reddish-green ; wings purplish-brown ; upper and under 

 tail-coverts largely developed and of a glittering blue, some of the feathers changing to green ; tail black, 

 with steel-blue reflexions ; chin, throat and chest grass-green ; across the breast a broad band of blue ; flanks 

 and abdomen velvety-black; bill black ; feet blackish-brown. 



The figures are of the size of life. The plant is the Stemonacanthus macrophyllns. 



