Genera of HumjJting Birds. 301 



le Lepidolarynx médiastin, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1876, t. ii., p. 284. 



Habitat. — Brazil. 



Male. — Top of head metallic silvery-green. Upperside 

 dark bronzy-green, with golden reflections when seen from 

 behind. Four median rectrices bronzy-green, last lateral 

 dark bronzy-green, outermost one darker. Throat metallic 

 crimson with purplish reflections. Underside dark shining 

 green. In the centre, a white line from the breast to the 

 undertail-coverts. Vent and tuft of feathers on sides of flanks 

 white. A spot behind the eye and a line under it white. 

 Undertail-coverts dark green margined with white. Wings 

 purplish-brown. Bill black. 



Total length, 44in. Wing, 2|. Tail, i^. Culmen, \\. 



Female. — Upperside dull bronzy-green or golden-green. 

 Median rectrices bronze-green, lateral and outermost ones 

 bronze-green with a subterminal blackish bar, and with white 

 tips. Underside grayish-white with brownish spots on throat 

 and some few scattered green feathers on sides of breast and 

 flanks. Bill black. 



Total length, 4iin. Wing, 2%. Tail, if. Culmen, \\. 



Young Male. — Upperside dull golden-green, sometimes 

 with metallic green feathers on forehead, outermost rectrices 

 tipped with white. Feathers of the throat dark olive-green 

 margined with white. Underside dark green, with the white 

 line in centre, as in adult males. Undertail-coverts olive- 

 green margined with white. 



What Elliot has described as the female is certainly a young 

 male. 



It is a common species in Brazil. 



In the Humming Bird, 1891, vol. i., p. 26, I have mentioned 

 a specimen of my collection agreeing exactly with the 

 description of the adult male ; but it has a very short bill, 

 hardly ^ of an inch long. 



■Genus CXXIV. Floricola, Elliot, Syn. Troch., 1879, p. 82. 

 Trochilus, Sw., Zool. Journ., 1827, p. 357. 

 Trochilus, Boié, Isis, 1831, p. 547. 

 Heliomastes, Bon., Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 251. 



