426 BIRDS OF BRITISH GmANA. 



We do not know tlie exact localitio.=;, in tlie Colony, of the l)iv(ls 

 described. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Rorainia, Kaniarang River 

 ( Whiteli/) ; Kanuku Mountains (Schomlmrgk). 



E.vtraJimital Range. Trinidad, Venezuela. 



Habits. Scliomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii, p. 705) that this 

 beautiful Humming-bird is one of the rarest species in British 

 Guiana. During his sta}' in the Colony he only collected some 

 few specimens from the Canuku Mountains which were brought 

 to him by the Indians. Its nidificatiou was unknown to him. 



289. Lophornis pavoninus. 

 Guiana Coquette. 



Loplio'rnis i)ai'oni)iifs Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1882, p. 81 (Merume 



Mts.) ; Whitelv, Ibis, 1884, p. 357 (Koraima) ; Salvin, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 427, 1892 (Eoraima) ; Bi-abom-ne & Chubb, 



B. S. Amer. i. p. 147, no. 1438, 1912. 

 Poleim'sfria pavonine/ Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 433 (Romima, 3000-3500 ft.); 



d'Hamonv. Bull. Sec. Zool. France, xi. p. 317, 1886 (Meinime Mts.). 



Adult male. General colour above green including the back, 

 scapulars, and upper wing-coverts ; an indistinct band of bufF}^- 

 white across the rump ; upper tail-coverts tinged wuth coppery 

 bronze ; tail bronze-green ; flight-quills purplish brown ; crown 

 of head bright glistening green, wnth a dark longitudinal line 

 from the base of the bill along the middle of the crown which is 

 bright copper-colour on the hinder crown ; lores, fore part of 

 cheeks, and chin black tinged wnth green on the throat ; the 

 elongated feathers on the hinder cheeks bright pale green wnth a 

 circular subapical black spot on each feather, the base of the 

 feathers cinnamon rufous with a diamond-shaped white spot ; 

 remainder of the under surface green with blackish bases to the 

 feathers, the short under tail-coverts tipped with white. Bill 

 black. 



Total length 85 mm., culmen 11, wing 46, tail 2^. 



The description of the male is taken from the type in the 

 British Museum which was collected by Whitely at the Merume 

 Mountains on the 25th of July, 1881 — Salvin-Godman col- 

 lection. 



Adult female. General colour above bronze-green including 

 the head, back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, and middle tail- 

 feathers ; a narrow band of buffy-white across the rump ; outer 



