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Taumastura elise Dz Oca, Troq. de Mex., 1875, 7, pl. (1), fig. 2. 
Doricha elise Gouup, Introd. Troch., oct. ed.; 1861, 94.—Exuiot, Classif. and 
Synop. Troch., 1879, 125.—Bovcarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 22; 
Notes Troch. du Mex., 1875, 9 (Jalapa); Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 26 (Jalapa; 
Progreso, Yucatan).—Satvin, Ibis, 1889, 365 (Holbox I., Yucatan); Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 382 (Jalapa and Cérdova, Vera Cruz; Sis4l and 
Holbox I., Yucatan).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 
1892, 346. 
Amathusia (Doricha) elizae MULSANT and VERREADX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 85. 
[Calothorax] ehze Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 135, no. 1731. 
Amalusia elizae Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 
1877, 20. 
[Amalasia] elizae Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 225. 
Doricha elise Boucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 451 (Progreso, Yucatan; 
habits). 
[Doricha] elisae Stuon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 38. 
Genus CALOTHORAX Gray. 
Calothoraz Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 138. (Type, Cynanthus lucifer Swainson.) 
Callothorax (emendation) Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., May, 1854, 257.4 
Callithorax (emendation) Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 37. 
Lucifer Re1cHensacn, Synop. Av. Nat., 1849, pl. 39. (Type, Cynanthus lucifer 
Swainson.) 
Cyanopogon ‘‘Reica[ENBAcH]” Bonaparte, Ann. Soc. Nat., ser. 4, i, 1854, 138. 
(Nomen nudum.) 
Manilia Muusant and VERREAUX, Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherb., xii (sér. 2, 
ii), 1866, 230, in text (Classif. Troch., 1866, 86). (Type, Calothorax pulchra- 
Gould.) 
Small Trochilide (length, including very long bill, about 80-95 
mm.) with long, slender and more or less decurved bill, the adult 
males with tail three-fourths as long as wing, forked and lateral rec- 
trices stiff and narrow (acicular in one species), uniform blackish, and 
with a gorget of bright metallic purple (changing to violet), the posterior 
lateral feathers of which are much elongated, the chest white; the 
adult females with tail less than two-thirds as long as wing, rounded 
or double-rounded, the lateral rectrices not narrow, broadly tipped 
with white, black subterminally, and rufous basally, the under parts 
buffy passing into white on abdomen or dull white with sides and 
flanks buffy. 
Bill decidedly to very much longer than head, slender, more or less 
decurved, terete; culmen rounded except basally, where contracted 
into a rather distinct ridge; tomia smooth; mandible with a distinct 
longitudinal median narrow groove. Nasal operculum broad and 
convex but covered by the appressed frontal feathering, which extends 
forward to beyond anterior end of nostrils, forming a short point or 
antia on each side of culmen. Tarsus feathered except on posterior 
side and extreme lower portion; lateral toes about equal in length, 
<But the name used in a different sense generically. 
