28 o Genera of Hum??iing Birds. 



patron of Natural Sciences, who gave his ornithological Col- 

 lection to the Museum of the Academy of Philadelphia. 



Genus CXI. Lampropygia, Cab. and Heine., Mus. Hein., 



t. iii., p. 78. 



COELIGENA, Bon. Compt., Rend., 1850, p. 380. 



Type. — O. coeligena, Lesson. 



Bill long, straight, nearly twice the length of the head. 

 Wings narrow, long, and pointed, reaching the end of 

 tail. Tail long, slightly forked. Median rectrices long, 

 shortest, lateral and outermost ones, slightly and gradually 

 longer. Undertail-coverts very short. Sexes similar. 



Habitat. — Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia. 



396. Lampropygia coeligena. Cab. and Heine, Mus. 



Hein., t. iii., p. 78. 



Coeligena typica, Bon. Consp., Gen., Av., 1850, p. 73. 



Ornismya coeligena, Less. Troch., 1832, p. 141. 



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



Coeligene, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. iv., p. 255. 



la Lampropygie coeligène, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou, 1876, 

 t. iii., p. 1 1. 



Habitat. — Venezuela. 



Male. — Upperside shining coppery-purple, with the rump 

 brilliant metallic-green, when seen from behind. Tail dark 

 olive-bronze with purplish reflections. Throat grayish-white, 

 with blackish-brown in centre of each feather. Lower part of 

 breast, abdomen, and flanks dark gray with a rufous tinge, and 

 washed with reddish-bronze on flanks. Undertail-coverts 

 rufous. Wings shining purple. Bill black. 



Total length, 5iin. Wing, 3. Tail, 2\. Culmen, i\. 



Female. — Exactly like the male, but slightly paler in colour- 

 ation. Tips of lateral and outermost rectrices pale buff. 



I have one specimen of this species, " Ex. Coll. Costa de 

 Beauregard," which I believe to be the type of Lesson. The 

 others were collected in Venezuela, by my friend, Doctor 

 Carlos Rojas. 



