D.ORIFERA RECTIROSTRIS, Gould. 



Ecuadorean Lance-bill. 



Doryfera rectirostris, Gould, Intr. Monogr. Trochil. 8vo, p. 71 (1861). — Mulsant, Hist. Nat. 



Oiseaux-Mouches, i. p. 202 (1874). 

 Doryphora rectirostris, Sclater & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 82 (1873). 

 Hemistephania rectirostris, Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, p. 81 (1878). 



I HAVE retained for the sake of uniformity the name Donfera for the birds of the present genus, as it was 

 employed by me in the previous volumes of this Monograph ; but I admit that the more correct form of 

 writing It would be Doryphora, as adopted by Messrs. Sclater and Salvia in their ' Nomenclator Avium 

 Neotropicalium.' In point of fact the name Doryphora will have to be suppressed among the Trochilidce ; 

 for It has already been employed by Illiger in entomology, and therefore the proper generic name to be used 

 is Hemistephania of Reichenbach, as employed by Mr. Elliot. 



D. rectirostris comes from Ecuador, w^here it replaces the Colombian Z>. ludomci(E, of which, in fact it is 

 only a larger race with a somewhat longer bill. 



The following is a copy of the original description published by me in the ' Introduction : ' — 

 Bill and feet black; tarsi clothed with brown feathers ; forehead brilliant glittering green; crown and 

 back of the neck reddish bronze, passing into dull green on the back ; upper tail-coverts washed with 

 blue; tail black, tipped with greyish brown, largely on the external feathers, slightly on the middle ones; 

 under surface olive ; under tail-coverts grey; wings purplish brown. 



I have not given a figure of this species, as there is not sufficient difference between it and D. ludomcice 

 to be shown in a Plate 



DORIFERA EUPH ROSING, Mnls. S( Verr. 



Mulsant's Lance-bilK 



Dorifera euphrosince^ Mulsant & Verreaiix, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xviii. p. 319 (1870-71) 



Muls. Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, i. p. 198 (1874). 

 Doryphora enphrosine, Sclater & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 82 (1873). 

 Hemistephania euph'osince, Elliot, Synopsis of the Hunnning- Birds, p. 81 (1878). 



I HAVE never seen the male of this species, which, however, appears to be known to Mr. Elliot, who regards 

 it as distinct from D. hidovicicB on account of its small size and the peculiar bluish-green colour of the 

 frontal spot. I have in my collection a female collected by Mr. Edward Bartlett in the Peruvian Amazons, 

 which I believe to be referable to D, euphrosince, the habitat of which is supposed to be Ecuador. 



