2i6 Genera of Hiimjning Birds. 



Lately, Buckley sent some specimens, which he collected on 

 the Upper Amazon. 



My specimens were collected by him. 



Genus LXXXVII. Lamprolaema, Reich., Aufz. de^ 



Colib., 1853, p. 9. 



Type : O. rhami, Lesson. 



Bill straight, slender, with tip acute, and about the length 

 of the head. Feathers of forehead projecting on culmen and 

 partially hiding the nostrils. Wings long, ample, reaching 

 the end of tail. Tail long, and forked, rectrices broad. Median 

 shortest, laterals slightly, and gradually longer, pointed at tips. 

 Feet laree. Tarsi clothed. Sexes unlike. 



Habitat. — Mexico and Guatemala. 



308. Lamprolaema rhami, Less., Rev. Zool., 1838, p. 315. 

 Mellisuga rhami, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 112. 

 Lampornis rhami, Bon., Consp. Gen. Av., 1850, p. 72. 

 Delattria rhami, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 253. 

 De-Rham's Garnet^ Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, p. 61. 



le Lamprolèjue de Rham, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876,. 



t. ii., p. 2 [8. 



Habitat. — Mexico and Guatemala. 



Male. — Upperside shining green, golden in some speci- 

 mens on back, rump, and uppertail-coverts. Tail purple. A 

 spot behind the eye white. Throat metallic amethyst-red, 

 surrounded with velvetv-black. Breast brilliant metallic dark 

 blue. Rest of underside blackish-brown washed with green, 

 Undertail-coverts purplish-brown washed with green. Greater 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, and basal two-thirds of primaries,, 

 chestnut-red with brownish tips, remainder purplish-brown. 

 Bill black. 



Total length, 4fin. Wing, 3. Tail, 2\. Culmen, -i-i-. 



Female. — Upperside golden-green. Underside grayish- 

 brown washed sparingly with green on sides of breast and 

 flanks. Very adult specimens have in the centre of throat a 

 spot of metallic amethyst-red feathers. Tail purple, with tips- 

 of the two outermost ones dark gray. 



