ADELOMYIA FLORICEPS, Oouid. 



Blossom-crown. 



TrocJiilus ( ?) floriceps, Gould in Proc. of ZooL Soc. 1853, p. 62. Reported in Athen^um, 



1853, p. 481. 

 Adelomyia Jloriceps, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de ZooL 1854, p. 253. 

 Metallura floriceps, Reichenb. Aufz. der Colibris, p. 8. 



This pretty little species, to which I have given the trivial name of Blossom-crown, is an inhabitant of 

 the great conntry of Columbia, and is one of the most recent discoveries made in that rich region. The 

 single specimen sent to me by M. Linden of Brussels had, I believe, been collected by his brother-in-law in 

 the neighbourhood of the Auruaco Village of San Antonia, on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Martha, in 

 lat. 10° 40', long. 72°, at an elevation of 5000 feet ; and, so far as I am aware, is the only one that has yet 

 been procured. It appears to be fully adult, and has all the characteristics of the male sex. In giving a 

 figure of it thus early in my work, I am desirous, first, to make it generally known ; and secondly, to 

 call the attention of collectors who may visit Santa Martha to the circumstance that examples of it are 

 among the desiderata of our cabinets. 



I have placed this bird provisionally in the genus Adelomyta, because in its structure and colouring, except 

 in its lilaceous crown, it more closely assimilates to the A, melanogenys than any other member of the 

 family. 



Forehead huffy white, passing into a beautiful deep peach-blossom hue on the crown ; throat grey, passing 

 into the rufous of the abdomen; wings purplish brown; middle tail-feathers bronzy; lateral tail-feathers 

 bronzy at the base, passing into purplish black, and largely tipped with buff; bill black; feet apparently 

 light brown. 



The figures are of the size of life. The plant is the Lisianthus acutangulus. 



